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750641

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Living Wage: Young People
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 plans his Department has to make the national living wage available to those aged 18 to 24.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	4147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The National Living Wage is limited to those aged 25. The Government is setting minimum thresholds only and we recognise and commend those employers who seek to set higher rates of pay.</p><p> </p><p>The current national minimum wage rates per hour for those who are not apprentices and under 18 years old is £4.05; 18 – 20 years old is £5.60; 21 – 24 years old is £7.05 and 25 years old or older is £7.50.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/07/2017 15:35:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

750726

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Insolvency Service
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 plans he has to further regulate the insolvency service.
tabling member constituency	Ogmore
tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
uin	4186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service is an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; I have no plans to change the regulatory arrangements for the Department. However, I also have ministerial responsibility as oversight regulator for the insolvency profession and as such will continue to ensure that confidence in the insolvency regime is maintained.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/07/2017 13:59:28 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

750740

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Low Pay: Sharing Economy
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 he has made of the number of workers being paid less than the national minimum wage in the gig economy.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	4211
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>There are no official estimates of workers paid below minimum wage rates in the ‘gig economy’.</p><p>The Government is committed to cracking down on employers who break the National Minimum Wage law. That is why we have increased HMRC’s 2017/18 enforcement budget to £25.3m.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 18/07/2017 13:16:12 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 5048 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

750741

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Modern Working Practices Review
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 plans he has to implement the findings of the Taylor review of modern working practices; and when he will implement those findings.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	4212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the statement I made to the House on 11 July 2017 to announce the publication of the Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, where I stated that:</p><p>“This is an independent review addressed to Government. Although we may not ultimately accept every recommendation in full, I am determined that we consider the report very carefully and we will respond fully by the end of the year”.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 4214 4215 question first answered 18/07/2017 13:17:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 5050 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

750743

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Trade Unions
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 plans he has to implement the findings of the Taylor review of modern working practices on trade union representation.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	4214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the statement I made to the House on 11 July 2017 to announce the publication of the Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, where I stated that:</p><p>“This is an independent review addressed to Government. Although we may not ultimately accept every recommendation in full, I am determined that we consider the report very carefully and we will respond fully by the end of the year”.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 4212 4215 question first answered 18/07/2017 13:17:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 5059 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

750744

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Job Security
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 plans he has to implement the findings of the Taylor review of modern working practices on insecurity in the work place.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	4215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the statement I made to the House on 11 July 2017 to announce the publication of the Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices, where I stated that:</p><p>“This is an independent review addressed to Government. Although we may not ultimately accept every recommendation in full, I am determined that we consider the report very carefully and we will respond fully by the end of the year”.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 4212 4214 question first answered 18/07/2017 13:17:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 5062 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

750745

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the cost of replicating EURATOM in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	4129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The nature of future arrangements with Euratom and the EU will be subject to negotiation. Our 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. The scope of these arrangements will determine the cost.</p><p>Government included a nuclear safeguards bill in the Queen’s Speech and, subject to the will of Parliament, this will ensure that the Office for Nuclear Regulation has the legal underpinning required for it to take on the role and responsibilities required to meet our international safeguards and nuclear non-proliferation obligations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 25/07/2017 16:20:14 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

750753

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on NHS cancer patients of the Government’s decision for the UK to leave Euratom.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	4432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK imports a wide variety of radioactive isotopes for medical use. These include radioisotopes used for medical imaging of cancers and for cancer therapy. As medical radio-isotopes are not special fissile material, they are not subject to international safeguards and their availability in the UK should not be impacted by withdrawal from Euratom.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 24/07/2017 12:54:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 5096 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

750777

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Small Businesses: 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 Scottish Government on strategic initiatives to support small businesses in Scotland; and what the agreed steps to be taken were at those discussions.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	4159
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>As set out in my responses to PQ <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-06-21/411/" target="_blank">411</a> and PQ <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-07-03/2586/" target="_blank">2586</a> the UK and Scottish Governments have been in discussion at both ministerial and official levels.</p><p> </p><p>Business support in Scotland is largely devolved however, the department engages with all the devolved regions on a number of initiatives aimed at supporting small businesses. Government programmes, backed by the British Business Bank (BBB), the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme (EFGS) and Innovate UK are investing over £700m to support around 4,500 Scottish companies including: -</p><p> </p><ul><li>BBB programmes are currently facilitating approximately £405m of finance in Scotland.</li><li>Over 2,600 loans totalling over £15m via the Start-Up Loans programme. The Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme is currently facilitating over £61m of finance to 700 businesses in Scotland.</li><li>The Investment Programme is currently facilitating over £214m of finance to over 1,000 businesses.</li><li>Innovate UK is committed to support some 206 innovation projects and to invest £28.8m.</li></ul> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/08/2017 07:47:19 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry previous answer version 5113 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

750808

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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	Solar Power: Subsidies
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 incentivise businesses to invest in rooftop solar.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	4225
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 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 constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 19/07/2017 13:54:45 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick