Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

850666

registered interest
date	01/03/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Carillion: Insolvency
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with companies inheriting contracts from Carillion on the extension of TUPE rights to Carillion employees.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	129916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28<sup>th</sup> February 2018 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-02-23/129511/" target="_blank">129511</a>.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 05/03/2018 14:18:52 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

847760

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Intellectual Property: 3D Printing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what intellectual property protections and enforcement measures counterfeiting authorities may use for counterfeiting and piracy of designs made by 3D printing.
tabling member constituency	Battersea
tabling member printed	Marsha De Cordova
uin	129436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>Intellectual property protections apply to designs replicated by 3D printing in the same way as they apply to articles created by more traditional manufacturing processes. The protection and enforcement measures available will vary according to what rights exist in the design, and the circumstances of each case, but these could include both civil and criminal sanctions. Relevant protections could include copyright, registered and unregistered design rights, patents or trade marks.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/03/2018 10:12:11 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4676 label Biography information for Marsha De Cordova

850667

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Commercial Secrets: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government will take steps to ensure that the transposition into UK law of Article 7 of the Trade Secrets Directive includes strong language to penalise abusive litigation so as to prevent companies from using the threat of litigation to deter competitors or public interest scrutiny.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	129917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is seeking views on draft regulations to transpose the Trade Secrets Directive into UK law and launched a technical consultation on 19 February 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is of the view that it is not necessary to transpose the provisions of Article 7 of the Directive as UK law and court rules already provide for appropriate measures to be taken where an applicant is found to have initiated legal proceedings in bad faith or where the proceedings are an abuse of process. However, the Government will consider any views to the contrary submitted to the consultation.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 05/03/2018 14:27:04 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

850746

registered interest
date	27/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	3D Printing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will he make an assessment of the potential contribution of 3D printing to UK GDP by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	129983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The industry backed Additive Manufacturing strategy identifies that the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Sector can capture over £3.5bn per year (Gross Value Added) for the UK of the rapidly growing global market for additive manufacturing products (3D printing) and services by 2025, supporting 60,000 jobs in the knowledge economy and generating new, highly skilled employment opportunities. The industry led Made Smarter Review also identifies the contribution of digitally enabled technologies to manufacturing-including additive manufacturing- to the UK economy to be as much as £455 billion over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, we are working closely with UK industry to create the right conditions for competitive, world leading manufacturing businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Government recognises the importance of 3D printing and additive manufacturing and since 2012 The UK’s EPSRC and Innovate UK’s combined investment in additive manufacturing R&amp;D, including capital grants, has been well over £200 million, helping to develop and maintain UK capability in additive in the UK. In addition we have invested over £300m in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, including establishing the National Centre for Net Shape and Addictive Manufacturing housed in the Manufacture Technology Centre in Coventry. Its aim is to develop production-ready additive manufacturing processes, to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption, and to work on legislative and standardisation issues to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies such as 3D printing.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/03/2018 14:28:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

849999

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Cars
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people employed by (a) producers of kit cars and (b) the supply chain for kit cars.
tabling member constituency	Colne Valley
tabling member printed	Thelma Walker
uin	129567
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Production of kit cars is a small sub-sector of the automotive sector and it is not possible to isolate this sub-sector using the data sources available on employment numbers.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2018 16:11:07 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4649 label Biography information for Thelma Walker

850027

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Students: Sick Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what guidance his Department provides to postgraduate funding bodies which have no standard policy on paid sick leave for PhD students.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	129595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy expects all the public bodies it funds to have adequate arrangements in place to deal with sick leave for all individuals funded through their studentship programmes.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 01/03/2018 15:24:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

850079

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Sectary of State what progress has been made on agreeing Local Industrial Strategies; and which local areas are in discussion with his Department to develop Local Industrial Strategies.
tabling member constituency	Wimbledon
tabling member printed	Stephen Hammond
uin	129647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>As set out in the Industrial Strategy White Paper we will prioritise agreeing Local Industrial Strategies with areas that have the potential to drive wider regional growth, focusing on clusters of expertise and centres of economic activity.</p><p>At the Budget we confirmed that we will work in partnership with Greater Manchester Mayoral Combined Authority to develop a Local Industrial Strategy. The Second Devolution Deal for the West Midlands Mayoral Combined Authority included a commitment to produce a Local Industrial Strategy. In addition, as part of the Government’s overarching vision to drive economic growth and productivity in the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford Corridor, we invited the Corridor’s LEPs, along with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayoral Combined Authority, to begin the development of Local Industrial Strategies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 02/03/2018 10:28:28 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond

850281

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Ofgem: Codes of Practice
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2018 to Question 128990, on Warm Home Discount Scheme, if his Department will (a) undertake and (b) place in the Library a review of the Ofgem Confidence Code.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	129849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The independent energy sector Regulator Ofgem administers the Confidence Code.</p><p>This Code requires that a service provider must alert consumers to the possibility that if they move to certain suppliers, they could lose support from government energy support schemes such as the Warm Home Discount.</p><p> </p><p>Ofgem regularly reviews the Code to ensure it provides the right protections for consumers. In addition, Confidence Code accredited price comparison websites undergo annual audits and Ofgem conduct spot checks to monitor compliance with Confidence Code requirements. Where non-compliance is identified, Ofgem contacts the price comparison website and works with them to bring them into compliance.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 01/03/2018 14:00:43 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

847757

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity Generation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what role the concept of baseload generation plays in his Department's planning for the future electricity system, allocation plans for contracts for difference and calculation of value for money of different generation sources.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	129433
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The concept of baseload refers to generation that operates continually throughout the year. As electricity demand varies widely from day to night and by season, there is a limit to the need for baseload generation which is less than the summer minimum demand. Baseload generation brings both benefits and costs to the system relative to generation that is designed to operate more flexibly or is intermittent.</p><p> </p><p>The electricity system already has many features that reward different types of generation depending on the demands of the system. When considering value for money, Government considers whole electricity system impacts. This includes the benefits of baseload generation relative to other technologies, and the cost of it not being able to increase or decrease output rapidly and of procuring reserve capacity to cover the risk of failure.</p><p> </p><p>The Capacity Market is at the heart of the Government’s plans for a reliable energy system; it secures the capacity required to meet peak demand through auctions held four and one year ahead of delivery. It supports technically reliable existing plant to remain in the market and, as coal and other ageing plant retire, it will strengthen incentives for new plant to be financed and built.</p><p> </p><p>The Contracts for Difference scheme allocates support using a competitive auction process to projects with the lowest price bids, which drives efficiency and cost reduction. The scheme has been a success in delivering substantial new investment and helping to deliver significant reductions in the costs of some renewable technologies. We keep it under review in order to ensure it continues to operate effectively and deliver value for money to the consumer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/03/2018 09:09:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

847768

registered interest
date	23/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Forests: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on ensuring that the new Northern Forest ameliorates the aesthetic effect of national infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	129444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Ministers from this Department have had no discussions with Ministers from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on this topic.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2018 16:10:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy