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1140164

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Tumble Dryers: Internet
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 publish the letters sent by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility to online platforms on the matter of second hand recalled tumble dryers being sold on their platforms.
tabling member constituency	Swansea East
tabling member printed	Carolyn Harris
uin	279088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>I can confirm that the letters I sent to online platforms on 13<sup>th</sup> July will be placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/08/2019 11:50:37 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4480 label Biography information for Carolyn Harris

1140182

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Coinage and Postage Stamps
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 plans to issue commemorative (a) stamps and (b) coins to mark the UK leaving the EU on 31 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	John Redwood
uin	278883
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2019 answer text <p>Matters relating to postage stamps, including special commemorative stamps, are the responsibility of Royal Mail.</p><p> </p><p>The commemorative 50p to mark the UK leaving the European Union will be made available following the UK’s departure, as confirmed previously.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 01/08/2019 12:55:47 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

1140198

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Small Businesses: North Cornwall
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 the Government-backed British business bank will help support small businesses in North Cornwall constituency.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	279103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/07/2019 answer text <p>We are committed to ensuring all small businesses have access to the support they need to succeed to start, grow, and scale their businesses.</p><p> </p><p>The Government-backed British Business Bank is there to make finance markets work better for small businesses at all stages of their development. The Bank’s programmes are currently supporting over £6.6bn of finance to over 89,000 smaller businesses (as at end-March 2019). The British Business Bank’s Start-Up Loans programme provides loans to entrepreneurs seeking to start and grow their own businesses. Since 2012, the programme has delivered almost 65,000 loans, worth nearly £511m to small businesses (as at end-June 2019).</p><p> </p><p>In North Cornwall specifically, since 2014 the Bank has supported over £5.75m of finance to over 180 smaller businesses (as of July 2019). 99 Start-Up Loans have been issued in North Cornwall, totalling £912,033. The Bank’s programmes will continue to support smaller businesses in North Cornwall.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2018, the British Business Bank launched the £40m Cornwall &amp; Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (CIOSIF) to provide debt and equity finance in this area. The fund has deployed £1.9m into 10 small businesses as at the end of May 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Bank’s online Finance Hub helps small business owners identify potential sources of finance via the finance finder web tool. The Business Bank has also established a UK Network, with team members based within each of the English regions and the three Devolved Nations, including a representative for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. The UK Network works with small business finance intermediaries to enhance business finance ecosystems across the UK, so smaller businesses, wherever they are, can grow and prosper.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 31/07/2019 16:16:53 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

1140200

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Post Office: North Cornwall
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 much of the £2 billion investment in the Post Office network has been spent in North Cornwall.
tabling member constituency	North Cornwall
tabling member printed	Scott Mann
uin	279105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government recognises the critical role that post offices play in communities and for small businesses across the UK. This is why the Government committed to safeguard the post office network and protect existing rural services. The overall number of post offices across the UK remains at its most stable in decades with over 11,500 branches thanks to significant Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government sets the strategic direction for the Post Office, it allows the company the commercial freedom to deliver this strategy as an independent business. Any allocation of funding to specific branches and regions is an operational matter for Post Office Limited. I have therefore asked Alisdair Cameron, the Group interim Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to my hon Friend on this matter. A copy of his reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 06/08/2019 08:54:58 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4496 label Biography information for Scott Mann

1140255

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Copyright
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 the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for copyright in the event of a no deal Brexit have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279023
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/08/2019 answer text <p>Copyright is largely harmonised internationally by a number of treaties to which the UK is signatory. This means that much of the copyright framework in the UK is not dependent on membership of the EU and will remain intact when we leave.</p><p>However, some UK copyright law is derived from the EU copyright framework; hence there are references in UK law to the “EU”, the “EEA”, and “Member States”. Some of these references arise from the UK’s implementation of certain EU cross-border copyright mechanisms. These are unique to the EU and provide reciprocal protections and benefits between Member States, covering areas such as cross-border portability of online content services, sui generis database rights, and copyright clearance for satellite broadcasting.</p><p>To ensure UK copyright law functions properly if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Government introduced <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/605/contents/made" target="_blank">The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019</a>. This removes or corrects references to the EU, EEA, or Member States in UK copyright legislation to preserve the effect of UK law where possible. For reciprocal cross-border mechanisms where continuing to extend provisions to the EU on a unilateral basis after exit would adversely affect those in the UK, we are limiting the mechanisms to operate on a purely domestic basis or bringing them to an end, as appropriate. <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-copyright-law-in-the-event-of-no-deal" target="_blank">Guidance for stakeholders</a> has been published alongside this.</p><p>Although the UK is leaving the EU, UK and EU copyright works (e.g. books, films and music) will continue to be protected in the EU and UK respectively because of the international treaties on copyright (e.g. the Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement), which require all treaty countries to protect works originating in any other treaty country to a minimum standard. Our participation in these treaties does not depend on our membership of the EU.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/08/2019 14:30:10 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1140257

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Intellectual Property
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 the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for exhaustion of intellectual property rights in the event of a no deal Brexit have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/08/2019 answer text <p>In preparation for a no deal Brexit, the Government prepared secondary legislation to provide for a temporary unilateral EEA exhaustion regime. The Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 was approved by Parliament in February 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Government also published guidance, in the form of a technical notice on GOV.UK in September 2018 for businesses and consumers to prepare for a no deal scenario.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to engage with stakeholders on this issue in preparation for a possible no deal Brexit.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/08/2019 14:27:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1140258

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Competition
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 the Guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there's no deal, published by the Department for Exiting the European Union, what parts of the plan for merger review and anti-competitive activity in the event of a no deal Brexit have been implemented.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Chuka Umunna
uin	279025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>In September 2018 the Government published the guidance, “Merger review and anti-competitive activity if there's no Brexit deal”. Since then, the Government has legislated for the necessary changes to UK law through the Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. These regulations were approved by Parliament in January. They ensure that in the event of the UK leaving the European Union without a deal, the UK domestic competition regime will continue to operate effectively to address anti-competitive activity and review merger activity. The Government is working closely with the Competition and Markets Authority as it prepares for the UK’s exit from the European Union.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/08/2019 11:29:44 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

1140376

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Renewable Energy
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 has taken to support the (a) use and (b) production of renewable (i) energy and (ii) infrastructure in each nation and region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Government has supported a number of measures and programmes to support the production and use of renewable energy and infrastructure. The Government has committed to making up to £557 million available for further Contracts for Difference auctions to bring forward large-scale renewable projects and introduced the Smart Export Guarantee in June, to ensure that generators are paid for excess energy they export back to the grid from 2020.</p><p> </p><p>On 7 March, the Government announced the Offshore Wind Sector Deal, which will build on the UK’s global leadership in offshore wind and support the delivery of up to 30GW of offshore wind by 2030 in Great Britain; enhancing growth in the regions while continuing to reduce costs. We are also investing over £3 billion to support low-carbon innovation in the UK up to 2021, to ensure that the UK continues to reap the benefits from the transition to a low carbon economy. Previous schemes for renewable electricity include the Renewable Obligation and the Feed-in Tariff Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>Energy policy is devolved matter in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to support the production and use of renewable heat with the current Great Britain Renewable Heat Incentive. There is a separate Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.The GB Renewable Heat Incentive supports the installation of renewable heat equipment in every region of Great Britain. To the end of June 2019, the RHI had supported 70,642 domestic, and 19,455 non-domestic installations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also launched the Heat Networks Investment project (HNIP) - a major Government project which will invest up to £320m of capital funding in heat network projects in England and Wales. HNIP funds are specifically offered as ‘gap funding’ through a combination of grants and loans and the scheme will be open for applications for a period of up to three years.</p><p> </p><p>Previous schemes for renewable heat include Clear Skies, the Low Carbon Building Programme, the Green Deal, and the Renewable Heat Premium Payment scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:35:32 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140377

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs
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 applications were submitted to the Feed-In Tariff scheme in each of the last nine years in each region and nation of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold data on applications submitted to the Feed-in Tariff scheme.</p><p>Data on cumulative installations confirmed on the Central Feed-in Tariff Register by region and nation within Great Britain is published quarterly and available from this link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sub-regional-feed-in-tariffs-confirmed-on-the-cfr-statistics</a></p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:53:29 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1140378

registered interest
date	18/07/2019
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	Renewable Energy: Feed-in Tariffs
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 amount of money distributed in (a) generation and (b) export tariffs under the Feed-In Tariffs scheme in each of the last nine years in each nation and region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	279035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not hold FIT spend data disaggregated by region or nation of Great Britain.</p><p>Ofgem publish annual figures on total FIT generation payments made and total FIT export payments made, as part of the Feed-in Tariff Annual Report: <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2017-18" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/feed-tariff-fit-annual-report-2017-18</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 02/08/2019 09:49:45 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra