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731045

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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	Business: Billing
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government on what date they plan to make available to the general public their online digital service for the reporting of payment practices and performance by large companies established under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 No 395.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL53
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>We are continuing to develop the Payment Practices Reporting online service so that it fully meets the Government’s Digital Service Standard and intend to launch the service in the autumn to ensure it is available for users to begin reporting their payment practices from October 2017.</p><p>Businesses are able to receive an invitation to use the service before then by emailing a request to <a href="mailto:paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk" target="_blank">paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 29/06/2017 14:56:00 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

753918

	registered interest
	date	19/07/2017
	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	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure full cooperation between international jurisdictions to facilitate legal action against alleged abuses propagated within the secondary ticketing market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL1064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is currently undertaking an enforcement investigation and will liaise with other international enforcement bodies as necessary to progress the investigation.</p><p>The CMA is the lead UK member in the Consumer Protection Cooperation partnership and has strong working relationships with other countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 14:03:49 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

753310

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to increase the use of rooftop solar power.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>Solar PV is a UK success story. In 2013 we estimated that solar capacity would reach 10-12GW by 2020. We now expect Government support to bring forward around 13 GW by 2020. The Feed-in Tariff remains open to solar PV which provides an incentive for businesses to invest in rooftop solar.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 13:33:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

747431

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what are the (1) minimum and (2) maximum level of fines that will be applicable for the reporting of misleading, false or deceptive payment practices and performance as established by the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 No. 395, and what other disciplinary action will be taken or recommended against relevant firms and individual persons.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>In England and Wales, there is no minimum, and no maximum level of fine which would be due on conviction of reporting misleading, false or deceptive payment practices or performance under the Regulations. This reflects the changes to maximum fines which may be imposed on summary conviction in England and Wales under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, fines cannot exceed Level 5 of the Standard Scale. The Government has no plans to take or recommend other disciplinary action against firms or individual persons.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/07/2017 10:57:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

1175322

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2020
	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	Energy
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what are the current peak energy requirements of the UK; and what such requirements are predicted to be in 2032.
	tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
	uin	HL829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>National Grid has estimated energy demand for four different future scenarios in the latest version of the future energy scenarios 2019, these are presented in Figure 4.1 on pages 46 and 47. Current (2020) estimated peak annual energy requirements for Great Britain range from 900 to 1,100TWh, depending on the scenario. The same scenarios are used to predict total annual energy requirements for 2032 of between 700 and 1,000TWh.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:11:51 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank attachment 1 file name Future Energy Scenarios 2019.pdf title Future Energy Scenarios 2019
	tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

747445

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what are the individual budgets agreed between the Better Regulation Executive and Government departments with regulatory responsibility; and what progress has been made against those targets to date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Rennard
	uin	HL409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>Deregulatory budgets were agreed between Ministers for a number of departments with regulatory responsibility during the 2015-17 Parliament. The Government has not yet decided what approach it will take to deliver better regulation during the current Parliament.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/07/2017 10:46:46 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2484 label Biography information for Lord Rennard

747430

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what are their plans for identifying and investigating misleading, false or deceptive reporting of payment practices and performance by qualifying companies and LLPs as established by the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 No. 395.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government will investigate any challenges to the accuracy of the information provided, on a case by case basis.</p><p>Anyone who is concerned that a business might not have complied, or may have made a false statement, can raise this by contacting the company directly or by contacting the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy at <a href="mailto:paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk" target="_blank">paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 13/07/2017 10:57:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

751161

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2017
	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	Euratom
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the benefits and costs of being an associate member of Euratom.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2017 answer text <p>The nature of the UK’s future arrangements with Euratom and the EU will be subject to negotiation. Government’s aim throughout the negotiations with the European Commission will be to maintain our mutually successful civil nuclear cooperation with Euratom and the rest of the world.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 27/07/2017 09:42:41 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

747401

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment have they made of the contribution to the economy of the brick industry.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of Cradley
	uin	HL365
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The Annual Business Survey 2015, published 9 June 2017, showed that the “manufacture of bricks, tiles and construction products, in baked clay” sector in 2015 employed 5,000 people across 125 enterprises, with a turnover of £925million.</p><p>Whilst there are no individual statistics on the brick industry other data suggests well over half of this sector is brick manufacture. This represents 0.01% of enterprises and 0.03% of turnover and employment in the non-financial business economy.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 17/07/2017 15:25:57 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	4303 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of Cradley

755163

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2017
	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	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of (1) the adequacy of resources (a) made available to, and (b) spent by, trading standards services since 2012, to ensure the compliance of the secondary ticket market with relevant legislation, and (2) the impact on those resources of their response to the Waterson review, published on 13 March.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL1171
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2017 answer text <p>As part of the Government’s response to the Waterson review, National Trading Standards have been tasked with investigating potential enforcement cases against sellers and secondary ticketing websites that do not comply with legislation from within their current and forthcoming annual budgets.</p><p> </p><p>The National Trading Standards Board have allocated £300,000 towards investigation work on ticketing for this current financial year.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authority Trading Standards also play an important role in tackling consumer detriment. Spending or resourcing decisions are for individual Local Authorities to make. We do not hold the requested data centrally.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 02/08/2017 10:10:43 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan