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797629

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Zero Hours Contracts: Unfair Dismissal
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 extend the employment rights of workers on zero hour contracts to cover unfair dismissal.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	116592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government is considering the issues raised by Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices which includes employment rights and zero hour contracts, as well as atypical work more generally. Matthew Taylor’s report is comprehensive and detailed and we have been giving the report the careful consideration it deserves and will respond in full shortly.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 04/12/2017 15:55:05 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

797778

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Packaging: Recycling
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 he has had with (a) the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and (b) representatives of the retail sector on to encourage supermarkets to make more of their packaging recyclable; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	116686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2017 answer text <p>My hon. Friend the Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry has met with the Food and Drink Federation at a joint-Ministerial roundtable where the issue of waste was discussed.</p><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget that there will be a call for evidence on single-use plastics that will begin in the New Year that will also take into account the findings of the consultation on drinks containers. We fully expect the retail sector to respond to this.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/12/2017 14:33:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

797788

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Unemployment: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which measures in the industrial strategy will help to reduce the rate of unemployment in the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	116696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s Industrial Strategy sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK. It also builds on previous reforms to allow local leaders to focus where they will have the greatest economic impact. We will agree Local Industrial Strategies that build on local strengths and deliver on economic opportunities. These will be long-term, evidence-based, and aligned to the national Industrial Strategy.</p><p>The Government is pleased to have agreed a further devolution package with the West Midlands: the detail of this deal demonstrates the Government’s commitment to mayoral devolution, the Midlands Engine and promoting local economic growth.</p><p> </p><p>Key measures to support employment include:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Joint work to establish one of the first Skills Advisory Panels – a new partnership between the West Midlands Combined Authority, local employers, post-16 skills providers and central government which will bring together data and intelligence on local labour market demand and influence skills provision, including the implementation of T-level qualifications in the local area.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>A career learning pilot testing new approaches to helping adults to upskill and reskill throughout their working lives.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2017 we announced a flagship £20million Midlands Skills Challenge to improve skills across the Midlands. This includes:</p><p> </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>£11 million to provide additional Work Coaches in order to deliver targeted employment support to unemployed people across Birmingham, Solihull and Black Country, with the aim of supporting claimants furthest from the labour market and improve the employment rate in these areas.</p><p> </p></li><li><p>And £2 million to offer English-language training to people in the Midlands, whose lack of ability to speak English is holding them back from accessing employment.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Finally, in the three months ending September 2017, compared to the same period in 2010, the unemployment rate in the West Midlands fell from 9.0% to 5.7%, a decrease of 3.3 percentage points, meaning 87,000 fewer people unemployed (Labour Force Survey, November 2017).</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 15:09:57 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

797807

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Energy Intensive Industries: Renewables Obligation
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 paragraph 4.51 of the Red Book, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the Government’s decision not to introduce new low-carbon electricity levies until 2025 on the implementation of the Renewables Obligation (Amendment) (Energy Intensive Industries) Order 2017.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	116715
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>This Order does not introduce a new levy. It makes an amendment to the existing Renewables Obligation (RO) scheme, to exempt energy intensive industries (EIIs) from some of the costs of the RO, providing real-time support, with increased certainty, to industries with a vital role to play in the UK economy<em>. </em>Therefore, as no additional levy is being introduced the Government’s decision not to introduce new low-carbon electricity levies until 2025 has no bearing on the implementation of the Order.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 07/12/2017 16:17:00 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

797808

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme
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 13 September 2017 to Question 9068, when he plans to re-introduce the further Renewable Heat Incentive reforms outlined in the Government consultation response published in December 2016 and included in the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme Regulations 2017.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	116716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>It is my intention to implement the reforms announced in the 2016 Government Response, subject to their successful passage through Parliament. These reforms require the affirmative resolution procedure in Parliament.</p><p>With regard to timing, the Department is required to submit regulations through a process of pre-legislative scrutiny by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI). I aim to submit the remaining RHI reforms to the JCSI in December, and, subject to their clearance, would seek to lay the remaining RHI reforms early in the New Year, followed by parliamentary debates. These timings are indicative, and subject to parliamentary time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 06/12/2017 16:22:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

797809

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Fracking: Ryedale
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 criteria his Department will use to determine a decision on consent for hydraulic fracturing at the Kirby Misperton site; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Test
tabling member printed	Dr Alan Whitehead
uin	116717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department will determine Third Energy’s application for hydraulic fracturing at its Kirby Misperton site using the same criteria set out under Section 4A of the Petroleum Act 1998 (inserted by Section 50 of the Infrastructure Act 2015).</p><p> </p><p>The Department is carefully considering the evidence submitted and will respond appropriately in due course.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/12/2017 16:22:56 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	62 label Biography information for Dr Alan Whitehead

797848

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Trimega
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 the 29 November 2017 to Question 115018, whether Trimega was supplying services to (a) Government departments, (b) local authorities (c) police forces or (d) any other public or private body during the period in which that company did not hold UKAS accreditation to the international standard for test laboratories ISO/IEC 17025.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	116755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is responsible for accreditation policy and appoints the National Accreditation Body, UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service). It does not hold data on UKAS-accredited organisations or the customers of those organisations.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/12/2017 17:06:03 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

797861

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Climate Change Convention
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 his Department's policy is on the UK continuing to be legally bound by the Paris Agreement after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	116768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK will continue to be legally bound by the Paris Agreement after it leaves the EU; this is because it is Party to the Agreement both in its own right and through the EU.</p><p>Climate change is one of the most serious issues that we are facing and we remain firmly committed to the Paris Agreement and our emissions reduction and climate finance efforts, which are the result of this commitment. Climate change can only be tackled by nations working together and we will continue to work closely with the EU on this issue.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/12/2017 16:26:08 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

797866

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
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 he is taking to ensure that mineworkers in deprived areas have access to a proportionate share of the profits made by the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	116773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>The allocation of bonuses from the Trustees’ share of surpluses in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme is a matter for the Trustees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 06/12/2017 16:23:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

797903

registered interest
date	30/11/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit
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 estimate he has made of the additional funding required by his Department over the next two years to prepare effectively for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	116810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>As announced at Autumn Budget 2017, HM Treasury (HMT) is making £3 billion of additional funding available over the next two years - £1.5 billion in both 18/19 and 19/20 – so that departments and the Devolved Administrations can continue to prepare effectively for Brexit. We are currently working with HMT and the Department for Exiting the European Union to establish what we need to prepare effectively, and what additional funding should be supplied – HM Treasury will aim to agree 2018/19 allocations in early 2018.</p><p> </p><p>Funding requirements for 19/20 will be affected by progress in negotiations with the EU and will therefore be decided at a later date. Additional funding received from the Reserve will be set out at Supplementary Estimates in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/12/2017 16:21:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook