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1108823

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2019
	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	Solar Events
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they have put in place to protect against geomagnetic disturbances; and whether they have published, or intend to publish, the details of any such measures.
	tabling member printed	Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom
	uin	HL14930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government has assessed the risk of geomagnetic disturbances from Space Weather and identified actions to manage the risks, these are set out in the National Risk Register (2017 edition) on Gov.uk.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/04/2019 11:38:26 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley attachment 1 file name UK_National_Risk_Register_2017.pdf title National Risk Register Of Civil Emergencies 2017
	tabling member	56 label Biography information for Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom

1093433

	registered interest
	date	22/03/2019
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many mandatory cyber security training sessions civil servants working in his Department are required to undertake.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	235793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>Within BEIS there is only one mandatory training course that includes elements of cyber security, the Responsible for Information course via Civil Service Learning. BEIS staff are required to undertake this on an annual basis.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 04/04/2019 15:13:08 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1104673

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Automation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that 1.5 million jobs could be lost due to increased automation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL14798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The Industrial Strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to make the UK a global centre for AI and data innovation and to embed the power of these technologies across our economy.</p><p>The estimate does not consider the potential job creation resulting from automation. World Economic Forum estimate that automation will create 133 million new globally by 2022.</p><p>The Government recognises that demand for skills will continue to change, in part in response to automation. In order to equip the UK to capitalise on this opportunity, we have committed to improving the UK's system for training in digital skills, lifelong learning to ensure that working people have the support they need to navigate the challenge of automation to a higher-wage future. The Government are investing £406 million in maths, digital and technical education and have committed £100 million for the first phase of developing the National Retraining Scheme to support people vulnerable to technological change.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 04/04/2019 15:29:54 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1104943

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Pay
	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that all workers on trial periods are paid.
	tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
	tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
	uin	236559
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation proscribes unpaid work trials that are excessive and not part of a legitimate recruitment process.</p><p>This Government is committed to cracking down on employers who fail to pay the National Minimum or Living Wage. In the last 3 years we have almost doubled HMRC’s budget to enforce the NMW from £13.2 million to a record £26.3 million. In the 2017/18 financial year, HMRC identified a record £15.6 million in arrears for over 200,00 workers.</p><p>In December 2018, the Government published new work trials guidance that clarifies the rights of workers and the responsibilities of employers.</p><p>Anyone who is concerned about an unpaid work trial can seek advice from ACAS which offers tailored advice and refers cases to HMRC, which considers every worker complaint received.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/04/2019 16:43:54 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

1105041

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2019
	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	Job Creation: Romford
	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 steps he has taken to help businesses create more highly skilled jobs in Romford.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	236362
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Since its launch in 2012, the Start-Up Loans programme, part of the British Business Bank, has delivered more than 59,000 loans, totalling over £450m. One hundred and seventeen Start-Up Loans have been provided to the Romford constituency with a total value of £879,250.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses will also be helped with the Government’s Industrial Strategy, which is our long-term plan to boost productivity by backing businesses to create high-quality, well paid jobs throughout the United Kingdom, with investment in skills, industries and infrastructure. We are working with the London Local Enterprise Partnership to develop its Local Industrial Strategy, as part of our aim to create prosperous communities across the country. The Local Industrial Strategy will be long-term, based on clear evidence and aligned to the national Industrial Strategy, identifying local strengths and challenges, future opportunities and the action needed to boost productivity, earning power and competitiveness.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/04/2019 16:43:46 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1105121

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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	Green Alliance
	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 he has taken steps to support the Green Alliance’s Community Energy Manifesto; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
	uin	237045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>I am really impressed by the work community groups up and down the United Kingdom are already doing to help their wider communities decarbonise and get involved in this transition.</p><p> </p><p>In the Clean Growth Strategy, I announced the creation of a Local Energy Contact Group and a Local Energy Programme. The Contact group made up of communities, local authorities and local enterprise partnerships and provides local insight for policy teams across BEIS.</p><p> </p><p>The Local Energy Programme has funded Local Energy Strategies in every Local Enterprise Partnership. These strategies will feed into the newly developed Local Energy Hubs, also funded by BEIS to create capacity and capability to help Local Authorities deliver low carbon energy projects at scale.</p><p> </p><p>I have brought the Rural Community Energy Fund into my department to allow it to integrate better with the other work we are doing on heat and local ownership. Together with the Local Energy Programme, that will be almost £20m committed by this Government to support local energy in the last three years. Alongside this we have launched Prospering from the Energy Revolution, a £100m innovation fund designed to support local areas demonstrate future integrated energy systems.</p><p> </p><p>This funding will unlock commercial investment in our local energy system and following a successful national Local Green finance event in Leeds in January, we will be supporting five regional events this summer to bring investors and local projects together.</p><p>The Government has a clear vision for an energy system which fairly rewards flexibility for the value it provides to the system.</p><p> </p><p>We have set out in our The Smart Systems &amp; Flexibility Plan, and in the Progress Update in October 2018, a number of actions to open up markets to distribution-connected flexibility, including community energy groups. We are also consulting on a range of changes to the energy market which offer communities a chance to have their say, and ensuring consumers are at the heart of the future energy system.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 03/04/2019 17:01:05 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

1105169

	registered interest
	date	26/03/2019
	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	Innovate UK: Grants
	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 proportion of Innovate UK grant funding has been awarded to (a) SMEs and (b) large companies since 2004; and what the amount awarded has been by sector over that period.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	237126
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>Innovate UK (part of UK Research and Innovation) is successfully delivering significant cross-cutting programmes, such as the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and supporting the Industrial Strategy ambition to raise total R&amp;D investment to 2.4% of GDP by 2027.</p><p> </p><p>Innovate UK’s total funding to businesses since 2004 was <strong>£4,927,852,733. </strong></p><p> </p><p>A breakdown is provided in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total funding to SMEs* (including non-core)</p></td><td><p>£2,181,060,497</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total funding to Large (including non-core)</p></td><td><p>£2,746,792,236</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Non-core funding refers to funding given to Innovate UK by other government departments to deliver specific programmes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total funding to SMEs* (excluding non-core)</p></td><td><p>£1,909,487,601</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total funding to Large (excluding non-core)</p></td><td><p>£1,502,060,647</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*based on “self-declared” enterprise size</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grant funding (total)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aerospace</p></td><td><p>£902,108,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Agri-Tech</p></td><td><p>£100,604,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Energy</p></td><td><p>£293,617,745</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Healthcare</p></td><td><p>£296,251,076</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Life Science</p></td><td><p>£31,839,677</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Materials &amp; Manufacturing</p></td><td><p>£43,862,354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Space</p></td><td><p>£20,741,617</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport</p></td><td><p>£450,715,025</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other sectors</p></td><td><p>£2,788,112,136</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 03/04/2019 16:34:59 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1105544

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	European Research Council: EU Grants and Loans
	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 steps the Government has taken to ensure the latest cohort of successful European Research Council Advanced Grant applicants are aware of the underwrite that exists should the UK leave the EU without a deal before the conditions of their grants have been finalised.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods
	uin	237636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>The Government underwrite guarantee will cover funding for all successful UK bids to Horizon 2020 that are submitted before exit, even if they are notified of success after exit. This includes the 47 successful UK bids to the ERC Advanced Grant 2018 call which form part of the €540m funding recently announced by the European Commission for cutting edge research.</p><p> </p><p>The UKRI portal was announced in the Horizon 2020 Technical Notice and is part of our plans to underwrite funding for UK Horizon 2020 beneficiaries in the event of ‘no deal’. In this scenario, UK beneficiaries who have registered on the UKRI portal will receive detailed information about how the guarantee will be delivered and the next steps that they need to take.</p><p> </p><p>Since the announcement of the underwrite guarantee in 2016, the Government has consistently reiterated our commitment to deliver it, should it be required. Methods used include Ministerial statements in Parliament, digital engagement by both BEIS and our delivery partner UKRI, and direct engagement with business and stakeholder groups.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 03/04/2019 15:16:49 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

1105648

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Civil Servants: Scotland
	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 discussions his Department has had with the Cabinet Office on his Department having a civil service presence in Scotland.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	237765
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2019 answer text <p>BEIS already has a presence in Scotland. Through the core department and 7 of its partner organisations, BEIS has a presence of over 800 people, based primarily in Edinburgh (459), Glasgow (223) and Aberdeen (120), with smaller numbers in other locations.</p><p> </p><p>Last November, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster wrote to all Secretaries of State setting out the importance of the Government's commitment to relocate both public bodies and Civil Service roles into the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. To support this, the Places for Growth Programme are increasing their engagement with departments in the run up to the Spending Review and are drawing on advice and support from colleagues across Whitehall, including the BEIS Industrial Strategy Team.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>For information – further detail on locations of BEIS and its partner organisations</strong></p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out these organisations (correct as of August 2018):</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Organisation</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BEIS – Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment &amp; Decommissioning (OPRED)</p></td><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OFGEM</p></td><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>131</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Research &amp; Innovation</p></td><td><p>Multiple</p></td><td><p>Edinburgh – 354 Glasgow – 3 Perth – 1 Dumfries - 1 <strong>Total - 359</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Met Office</p></td><td><p>Multiple</p></td><td><p>Aberdeen – 31 Edinburgh – 29 Nairn and Moray – 12 Shetland – 5 Dumfries and Galloway – 3 <strong>Total - 84</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ACAS</p></td><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Insolvency Service</p></td><td><p>Edinburgh</p></td><td><p>44</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Companies House</p></td><td><p>Edinburgh</p></td><td><p>32</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)</p></td><td><p>Multiple</p></td><td><p>Caithness and Sutherland - 3 Ross and Cromarty – 2 <strong>Total - 5</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>833</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 03/04/2019 16:35:29 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair

1105650

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2019
	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	Solar Power: Scotland
	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 his Department has had discussions with the devolved Administrations on the development of solar energy in (a) Angus and (b) other parts of Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Kirstene Hair
	uin	237767
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>Ministers and officials in the Department regularly discuss a range of issues with the devolved administrations. At official level, the Department has increased its engagement with the Scottish Government. In January, the BEIS Permanent Secretary jointly chaired a Senior Civil Service away day with his Scottish Government counterpart, where amongst other issues, energy was discussed.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 04/04/2019 09:24:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4675 label Biography information for Kirstene Hair