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1092187

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/03/2019
	date	20/03/2019
	date tabled	20/03/2019
	ddp created	20/03/2019 20:06:42
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/03/2019 20:32:19 02/04/2019 12:53:07
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Consultants
	house id	1
	identifier	234810
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	02/04/2019 12:21:37
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many consultants his Department has hired since 2016; and what the cost of that hiring was to the public purse.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Bootle
	tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234810
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234810
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on the number of consultants hired in any one year as this work is often commissioned as part of an outcomes based contract to ensure value for money.</p><p> </p><p>The amount spent on consultants each year since 2016 is:</p><p> </p><p>2016-17 - £63.0 million of which £41.4 million was related to Site Licence Companies</p><p>2017-18 - £50.4 million of which £37.3 million was related to Site Licence Companies.</p><p> </p><p>Site Licence Companies manage and operate the nuclear facilities at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) sites.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1092209

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/03/2019
	date	20/03/2019
	date tabled	20/03/2019
	ddp created	20/03/2019 20:07:57
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/03/2019 20:33:09 02/04/2019 12:53:05
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	identifier	234820
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	02/04/2019 12:21:44
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row four of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish the other programmes with their respective budgets referred to in that table.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234820
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234820
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The breakdown of expenditure included in Other Programmes under Deliver an ambitious industrial strategy Resource DEL is as shown in the following table: -</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ordnance Survey - Public Sector Mapping Agreement</p></td><td><p>6.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office for Product Safety &amp; Standards</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Design council</p></td><td><p>2.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Portfolio Management</p></td><td><p>2.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Launch Investments</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Science and Innovation Policy</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Homes England: Innovation</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Centrally held</p></td><td><p>15.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Intellectual Property Office dividend</p></td><td><p>-1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total (Other programmes)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>29.4*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>Table does not add up due to rounding</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
	creator	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1092210

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/03/2019
	date	20/03/2019
	date tabled	20/03/2019
	ddp created	20/03/2019 20:08:01
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/03/2019 20:33:11 02/04/2019 12:53:04
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	identifier	234821
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	02/04/2019 12:21:52
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row three of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a detailed breakdown under the heading Business and Enterprise.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234821
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234821
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The breakdown of expenditure included in Business and Enterprise Resource DEL is as shown in the following table: -</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Carbon Price Floor Compensation</p></td><td><p>60.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EU ETS compensation</p></td><td><p>28.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Productivity Council</p></td><td><p>5.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Solution Centre</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sponsorship</p></td><td><p>1.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall Grant</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Economic Intelligence And Analysis</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Building Information Management</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Advanced Manufacturing: Research</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Regional Support Programme</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office for Life Sciences: Database and Web Portal</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total (Business and Enterprise)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>101.6*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>*Table does not add up due to rounding</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
	creator	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1092211

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/03/2019
	date	20/03/2019
	date tabled	20/03/2019
	ddp created	20/03/2019 20:08:37
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/03/2019 20:33:13 02/04/2019 12:53:02
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: British Shipbuilders
	house id	1
	identifier	234822
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	02/04/2019 12:21:58
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row five of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, what the spending under British Shipbuilders relates to.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234822
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234822
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Department has responsibility for liabilities arising from the former publicly-owned company British Shipbuilders. The liabilities largely relate to damages due to former workers who were exposed to asbestos over a period until the late 1980s.</p>
	creator	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1092213

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	25/03/2019
	date	20/03/2019
	date tabled	20/03/2019
	ddp created	20/03/2019 20:09:22
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/03/2019 20:33:19 02/04/2019 13:00:15
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	identifier	234824
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	02/04/2019 12:22:06
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 11 of the table on page 35 of the BEIS 2018-19 Main Estimate Memorandum, if he will publish a breakdown of spending under the heading Market Frameworks.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 234824
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	234824
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The breakdown of expenditure included under Market Frameworks Resource DEL is as shown in the following table: -</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>£m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Citizens Advice</p></td><td><p>35.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chartered Trading Standards Institute</p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Minimum Wage (NMW) Enforcement</p></td><td><p>12.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NMW &amp; NLW (National Living Wage) enforcement and awareness raising campaigns</p></td><td><p>9.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NMW Enforcement complex cases</p></td><td><p>4.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Labour Market Enforcement Agency</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Small Business Commissioner</p></td><td><p>1.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Convention of Scottish Local Authorities</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Office for Product Safety and Standards: Product Regulations</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EU Expertise: General Costs</p></td><td><p>0.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Labour Market Emerging Priorities</p></td><td><p>0.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Departmental Programme Translation Work</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Paternity Adoption and Shared Parental Pay</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>European Consumer Centre</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Minimum Wage</p></td><td><p>0.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ADR (alternative dispute resolution) Directive</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shared Parental Leave Comms</p></td><td><p>0.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>College For Europe</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Consumer Advocacy for Energy, Post and cross-sector</p></td><td><p>0.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>eIDAS Implementation</p></td><td><p>0.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total (Market Frameworks)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>84.3*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><em>*Table does not add up due to rounding</em></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
	creator	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1010637

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/11/2018
	date	20/11/2018
	date tabled	20/11/2018
	ddp created	20/11/2018 20:27:56
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/11/2018 20:38:18 26/11/2018 17:54:01
	hansard heading	Employment: Pastoral Care
	house id	1
	identifier	193545
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	26/11/2018 17:22:24
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to support employers in the provision of pastoral care programmes.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 193545
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	193545
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government encourages businesses to support the Stevenson Farmer mental health core standards, including the commitment to provide employees with good working conditions and ensure they have a healthy work life balance and opportunities for development. We are working with the Campaign to End Loneliness and a group of leading employers to develop case studies and good practice guidance to tackle loneliness and build social connections within the workforce. Acas has also published guidance for employers on how to promote wellbeing at work.</p><p> </p>
	creator	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1086654

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/03/2019
	date	11/03/2019
	date tabled	11/03/2019
	ddp created	11/03/2019 23:17:50
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	13/03/2019 13:55:08 15/03/2019 12:34:10
	hansard heading	ACAS: Languages
	house id	1
	identifier	230889
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 12:02:03
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to make (a) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service and (b) other services more accessible for non-English speaking workers.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 230889
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	230889
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Acas has a contractual relationship with ‘The Big Word’ to provide translation services. This commenced in July 2017 following the end of a contract with a previous provider. Acas are contacted by customers who require a translation service approximately 536 times per month, and the majority of these contacts are customers phoning their employment law Helpline for advice. Acas are supplied by ‘The Big Word’ with translators which cover many languages with Polish being the most popular, though they have used translators who are able to speak less common languages such as Turkmen.</p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, based in BEIS, provides support direct to agency workers and also offers translation facilities through ‘the Big Word’.</p>
	creator	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1086655

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	14/03/2019
	date	11/03/2019
	date tabled	11/03/2019
	ddp created	11/03/2019 23:17:53
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	12/03/2019 14:25:12 15/03/2019 12:34:07
	hansard heading	Employment: Enforcement and Inspections
	house id	1
	identifier	230890
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	15/03/2019 12:02:12
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to increase the resources allocated to labour inspection and labour law enforcement.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 230890
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	230890
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government is exploring options for a single labour market enforcement body – we will publish proposals on this for consultation shortly. More recently we announced that this consultation will consider extending the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority’s licensing scheme to further sectors and that we will ensure trade unions and businesses are consulted on the strategic direction of labour market enforcement.</p><p>As part of the forthcoming Spending Review we will consider what level of funding is appropriate to ensure that it is adequately resourced to deliver its strengthened remit.</p><p>Government is committed to ensuring fair and effective enforcement. We have taken concrete measures to increase the number of labour market inspectors and extend their coverage.</p><ul><li>Government has increased funding for HMRC’s enforcement of the National Minimum and Living Wage (NMW) to a record high of £26.3 million for 2018/19. The NMW enforcement team went from 140 staff in 2015-16 to 424 in 2017/18 (measured on a full-time equivalent basis).</li><li>Funding for the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has also risen in the last two years to reflect the expansion of its remit to tackle labour exploitation. The GLAA now receives over £7m per year in funding, up from £4.5m in 2016/17.</li><li>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate has seen its funding increase from £0.5m in 2016/17 to £0.725m in 2018/19.</li></ul><p>The Good Work Plan went further, setting out a number of measures to improve state enforcement of core employment rights. In addition to introducing state enforcement of holiday pay for vulnerable workers, we also committed to expand protection of agency workers to cover umbrella companies.</p>
	creator	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1081777

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	07/03/2019
	date	04/03/2019
	date tabled	04/03/2019
	ddp created	04/03/2019 22:57:40
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	06/03/2019 11:56:38 11/03/2019 18:18:02
	hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Parental Leave and Parental Pay
	house id	1
	identifier	228084
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	11/03/2019 17:46:51
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has plans to extend (a) maternity and (b) paternity leave and pay for parents of (i) very sick and (ii) premature children.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 228084
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	228084
	version	5
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>Officials in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have now completed the preliminary work on the internal review of the provisions for parents of premature, sick and multiple babies. This work sought to obtain a high-level understanding of the barriers to participating in the labour market that these parents can face.</p><p>The purpose of this preliminary work was to provide initial advice to Ministers, including identifying potential areas for further work.</p><p>I will consider this advice and expect to be in a position to say more about next steps in due course.</p>
	creator	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1010602

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	23/11/2018
	date	20/11/2018
	date tabled	20/11/2018
	ddp created	20/11/2018 20:26:37
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	ddp modified	20/11/2018 20:37:03 04/12/2018 10:40:02
	hansard heading	Scottish Limited Partnerships: Ownership
	house id	1
	identifier	193520
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	57
	question first answered	04/12/2018 10:08:27
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many fines have been levied against Scottish limited partnerships for failing to register a person of significant control.
	session	2017/19
	session number	1
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2017/19 193520
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	193520
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>No Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs) have been fined since the People with Significant Control register came into force.</p><p> </p><p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to her on 2nd July 2018 to Question 157783. Compliance is Companies House’s primary aim, rather than prosecution. It is taking action to ensure that all SLPs report their PSC information. Companies House is actively engaged with SLPs and their representatives to make them aware of their responsibilities, and in addition, it has issued reminder letters to all SLPs who have failed to file PSC information. Failure to comply with the requirement to report PSC information does not incur a civil penalty but it is an offence and may lead to a fine or imprisonment upon prosecution. Companies House is not a prosecuting body and will refer cases to a relevant prosecutor when all other avenues have been exhausted and an SLP has not complied with their obligations.</p><p>In April the Government consulted on a package of reforms which would limit the misuse of limited partnerships, including in their Scottish form. I anticipate that the Government’s response will be published in due course.</p>
	creator	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss