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931808

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Plastics: Commonwealth
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 25 June 2018 to Question 155717 on plastics: marine environment, how much Official Development Assistance funding has been allocated to the Commonwealth Marine Plastics Research and Innovation Framework; and what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that framework benefits people (a) living in poverty affected by mismanaged waste and (b) working in the informal waste management sector in developing countries.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	158184
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The exact mix of the UK’s contribution to the Framework will be agreed in the autumn when large research programmes bids, including an Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme, are complete. The Framework will strengthen capacity to prevent plastics from becoming waste and getting into the oceans. Interdisciplinary research and innovation will develop social, economic and environmental solutions to waste management challenges at local, national and Commonwealth scales.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 02/07/2018 16:40:16 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

931853

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Care Workers: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate he has made of the number of care workers who are paid less than the (a) national living wage and (b) national minimum wage as a result of their travel time not being taken into account for the calculation of wages.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	158167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s 2017 evidence to the Low Pay Commission on National Minimum Wage Compliance and Enforcement[1] detailed findings from the 2016/17 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). It was estimated that just over 20,000 jobs in the social care sector were paid less than the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage. However, we do not hold data on the prevalence of travel time as a specific reason for under-payment within this total.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring that workers are paid fairly and has published guidance relating to travel time[2]. HMRC’s National Minimum Wage enforcement budget has doubled since 2015-16, rising to £26.3 million for 2018-19. Last year, HMRC identified £15.6 million in arrears of wages owed to over 200,000 workers; the largest amount of money recovered for the highest number of workers since the National Minimum Wage came in to force.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC investigate where they believe an employer is not paying the minimum wage, which includes following up every worker complaint they receive. Any worker who is concerned about being underpaid should contact the ACAS helpline (on 0300 123 1100) for free and confidential advice, and to make a complaint.</p><p> </p><p>[1]<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-different-types-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-different-types-work</a></p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 02/07/2018 16:35:12 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

931863

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Manufacturing Industries: Employment
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 total number of jobs in the UK in the supply chains of the (a) aerospace sector and (b) automotive sector.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	158236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>Based on employment data and employment multipliers supplied by the Office for National Statistics we estimate the following number of direct jobs in the automotive and aerospace sectors themselves and additionally the number of indirect jobs in their respective UK supply chains in 2017.</p><p> </p><p>We define supply chain jobs as those in other areas of the UK economy supported by the demand created by domestic purchases of goods and services made by the sector in question.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Direct jobs 2017 (‘000s)</p></td><td><p>Indirect jobs 2017 (‘000s)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aerospace</p></td><td><p>121</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Automotive</p></td><td><p>179</p></td><td><p>269</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sources: ONS Employee Jobs and Self-Employed Jobs, ONS Employment Multipliers</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/07/2018 16:27:07 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

931866

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Manufacturing Industries: UK Trade with EU
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 undertaken an impact assessment of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on WTO terms on the aerospace and automotive sectors.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	158237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a wide range of ongoing analysis in support of our EU exit negotiations and preparations. We continue to engage with businesses and industry bodies from all sectors of the economy, and all regions and nations of the UK, in order to inform our negotiations. However, it is not standard practice to provide a running commentary on ongoing analysis. In addition, ministers have a specific responsibility, which Parliament has endorsed, not to release information that would undermine our negotiating position.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/07/2018 16:26:41 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

931874

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Cooperatives
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 support and grow the cooperative sector as part of the Industrial Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	158275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It sets out how we are building a Britain fit for the future – how we will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs in every part of the UK with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Government fully recognises the social and economic contribution of the co-operative and social enterprise sector and remains receptive to exploring opportunities to help it realise its potential, as we set out recently in our response to the Law Commission’s report on pension funds and social investment.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 158276 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:26:18 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

931877

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Cooperatives
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 take steps to expand the role of his Department's Industrial Strategy in supporting and growing the cooperative sector.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	158276
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It sets out how we are building a Britain fit for the future – how we will help businesses create better, higher-paying jobs in every part of the UK with investment in the skills, industries and infrastructure of the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Government fully recognises the social and economic contribution of the co-operative and social enterprise sector and remains receptive to exploring opportunities to help it realise its potential, as we set out recently in our response to the Law Commission’s report on pension funds and social investment.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 158275 question first answered 02/07/2018 16:26:18 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

931888

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 his Department has made of the implication for his policies of 2.5 million people living in energy poverty.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>This Government is committed to tackling fuel poverty. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fuel-poverty-statistics" target="_blank">latest statistics</a> on fuel poverty in England show the average fuel poverty gap – the amount needed on average to lift households out of fuel poverty – decreased to £326 in 2016, down from £341 in 2015.</p><p>The best long-term solution is to improve energy efficiency to bring the cost of heating homes down. That is why we have just consulted on focussing the whole of the £640m per year Energy Company Obligation on low income and vulnerable households from later this year.</p><p>We are also introducing a price cap to stop unreasonable price rises for those 11 million households on standard variable and default tariffs and under the Warm Home Discount Scheme, over 2 million low income and vulnerable households are provided with a £140 rebate off their energy bill each winter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:25:52 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931889

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 is taking to support (a) single parents and (b) households in private rented accommodation at risk of energy poverty.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>The best long-term solution to fuel poverty is to improve energy efficiency to bring the cost of heating homes down. That is what we are doing through the Energy Company Obligation where we have consulted on focussing the whole of the scheme on low income and vulnerable households from later this year. We are also introducing a price cap to stop unreasonable price rises for those 11 million households on standard variable and default tariffs. Under the Warm Home Discount Scheme, over 2 million low income and vulnerable households are provided with a £140 rebate off their energy bill each winter.</p><p>Single parents and households in private rented accommodation will benefit from all of these measures. For those in the latter category, new Private Rental Sector Regulations came into force as planned on the 1st April 2018. They mean that all private landlords need to ensure that their properties reach at least a minimum Energy Performance Certificate rating of E before granting a tenancy to new or existing tenants. We also want to use new powers under the Digital Economy Act to help us focus support more accurately towards low income and vulnerable households living in fuel poverty.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 02/07/2018 16:25:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931890

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Fuel Poverty
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 his Department has made of regional disparity in energy poverty; and what estimate his Department has made of the number of households living in energy poverty in Blackburn.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	158269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2018 answer text <p>Fuel poverty figures by region can be found in Table 6 of the fuel poverty detailed tables: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fuel-poverty-detailed-tables-2018</a></p><p> </p><p>The number of households living in fuel poverty in Blackburn in 2016 is estimated to be 6,400 (15.4 per cent).</p><p> </p><p><em>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/sub-regional-fuel-poverty-data-2018</a>, Table 5</em></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/07/2018 10:13:16 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

931931

registered interest
date	27/06/2018
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	Thorium
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to p2 of Small nuclear power: Government response to the Fourth Report of the Energy and Climate Change Committee 2014-15, HC 1105, what further analysis has been undertaken to understand the implications on waste management and disposal of using thorium fuels; and if he will commission a study to confirm the potential benefits of thorium in the longer-term and how any potential barriers to its use might be overcome.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	158186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2018 answer text <p>No further analysis has been undertaken to understand the implications on waste management and disposal of using thorium fuels. There are currently no plans to commission a study to confirm the potential benefits of thorium in the longer-term and how any potential barriers to its use might be overcome.</p><p> </p><p>The successful bidders for Phase 1 of the Advanced Modular Reactor Feasibility &amp; Development Programme were announced on 28<sup>th</sup> June. It should be noted that none of the eight designs that will be given an opportunity to demonstrate the technical and commercial feasibility of their designs plan to use thorium fuels.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/07/2018 16:24:43 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy