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1420091

registered interest
date	07/02/2022
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	Biofuels: Carbon Emissions
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 tonnes of CO2 will be emitted each year by the (a) transportation and (b) burning of wood pellets imported to the UK for use in bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) energy schemes.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	119704
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/02/2022 13:57:54 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1419511

registered interest
date	03/02/2022
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	Drax Power Station: Carbon Emissions
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 tonnes of CO2 are emitted from the Drax power station as a result of burning wood pellets each year.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	117848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2022 answer text <p>The Government does not hold data on stack emissions from wood pellet burning at Drax. Ofgem publishes data on company-specific supply chain emissions from biomass, which can be found here <a href="https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2019-20" target="_blank">https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/biomass-sustainability-dataset-2019-20</a></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 11/02/2022 13:58:06 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1403817

registered interest
date	18/01/2022
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	Delivery Services: Regulation
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 potential merits of introducing additional regulations for the parcel delivery sector to ensure a minimum of standard of service.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	106794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to an affordable and accessible postal service for all users. Under its universal service obligation, Royal Mail offers a letter and parcel service for the same price and to the same delivery standards to anywhere in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom, as the UK’s designated independent regulator of postal services, is currently consulting on the future regulatory framework for post, including parcel operators outside of the universal service obligation, and plans to issue a statement in Summer 2022.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 26/01/2022 17:37:09 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1381792

registered interest
date	24/11/2021
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	Counterfeit Manufacturing
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 work with private industry to raise people's awareness of the risks associated with the purchase of counterfeit goods in the run up to Christmas 2021.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	81070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2021 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office works with industry, law enforcement and government partners to raise the awareness to consumers of the social, economic and personal risks posed by counterfeit goods. It is presently working with Local Authority Trading Standards teams to support their seasonal campaigns highlighting the dangers of purchasing counterfeit goods this Christmas.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 02/12/2021 17:55:30 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360658

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Toys and Games: 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, what steps his Department is taking to regulate the (a) listing and (b) sale of unsafe toys on online marketplaces.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Existing product safety legislation places obligations on manufacturers, importers and distributors to ensure that consumer products are safe before they can be placed on the UK market. This includes retailers selling toys via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), which is within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is taking forward a programme of work to help ensure the safety of products sold online. Where products are identified online that do not meet the UK’s product safety requirements, OPSS works with colleagues in local Trading Standards to take action and expects online platforms to act quickly to remove them from sale. Since April 2021, OPSS interventions have led to the withdrawal of more than 10,000 unsafe products, including toys, previously listed and available in the UK via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, OPSS continues to run regular campaigns to improve consumer awareness of safety issues, including a Christmas Toys product safety information campaign which will run from 15<sup>th</sup> November 2021 until 17<sup>th</sup> December 2021.</p><p> </p><p>OPSS is also currently conducting a review of the UK’s product safety framework to ensure it remains robust and is future-proofed so that it continues to protect consumers while enabling businesses to safely innovate and grow. This includes reviewing the impact of the changes brought by eCommerce to the product safety framework to ensure that there is appropriate accountability and clear responsibilities throughout the supply chain. The Government has analysed submissions to the product safety review Call for Evidence and is now finalising its response, which will be published in due course. We will consider a full range of options to address the challenges identified by stakeholders and any proposals for legislative change would be subject to public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 58446 58447 question first answered 26/10/2021 14:08:02 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360659

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Consumer Goods: 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 his Department will undertake an assessment of the potential merits of imposing a contractual duty of care on online marketplaces to ensure that the products they allow to be listed for sale are fit for purpose and meet regulatory requirements.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Existing product safety legislation places obligations on manufacturers, importers and distributors to ensure that consumer products are safe before they can be placed on the UK market. This includes retailers selling toys via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), which is within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is taking forward a programme of work to help ensure the safety of products sold online. Where products are identified online that do not meet the UK’s product safety requirements, OPSS works with colleagues in local Trading Standards to take action and expects online platforms to act quickly to remove them from sale. Since April 2021, OPSS interventions have led to the withdrawal of more than 10,000 unsafe products, including toys, previously listed and available in the UK via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, OPSS continues to run regular campaigns to improve consumer awareness of safety issues, including a Christmas Toys product safety information campaign which will run from 15<sup>th</sup> November 2021 until 17<sup>th</sup> December 2021.</p><p> </p><p>OPSS is also currently conducting a review of the UK’s product safety framework to ensure it remains robust and is future-proofed so that it continues to protect consumers while enabling businesses to safely innovate and grow. This includes reviewing the impact of the changes brought by eCommerce to the product safety framework to ensure that there is appropriate accountability and clear responsibilities throughout the supply chain. The Government has analysed submissions to the product safety review Call for Evidence and is now finalising its response, which will be published in due course. We will consider a full range of options to address the challenges identified by stakeholders and any proposals for legislative change would be subject to public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 58445 58447 question first answered 26/10/2021 14:08:02 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360660

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Toys and Games: Safety
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 had discussions with the Office for Product Safety and Standards on safeguarding children from the sale of unsafe toys on online marketplaces.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Existing product safety legislation places obligations on manufacturers, importers and distributors to ensure that consumer products are safe before they can be placed on the UK market. This includes retailers selling toys via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), which is within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, is taking forward a programme of work to help ensure the safety of products sold online. Where products are identified online that do not meet the UK’s product safety requirements, OPSS works with colleagues in local Trading Standards to take action and expects online platforms to act quickly to remove them from sale. Since April 2021, OPSS interventions have led to the withdrawal of more than 10,000 unsafe products, including toys, previously listed and available in the UK via online marketplaces.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, OPSS continues to run regular campaigns to improve consumer awareness of safety issues, including a Christmas Toys product safety information campaign which will run from 15<sup>th</sup> November 2021 until 17<sup>th</sup> December 2021.</p><p> </p><p>OPSS is also currently conducting a review of the UK’s product safety framework to ensure it remains robust and is future-proofed so that it continues to protect consumers while enabling businesses to safely innovate and grow. This includes reviewing the impact of the changes brought by eCommerce to the product safety framework to ensure that there is appropriate accountability and clear responsibilities throughout the supply chain. The Government has analysed submissions to the product safety review Call for Evidence and is now finalising its response, which will be published in due course. We will consider a full range of options to address the challenges identified by stakeholders and any proposals for legislative change would be subject to public consultation.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 58445 58446 question first answered 26/10/2021 14:08:02 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360664

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Trading Standards 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 steps his Department is taking to support Trading Standards Scotland after the UK's departure from the EU.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The Consumer Protection Partnership (CPP), of which the department and Trading Standards Scotland are members, regularly meet to discuss consumer protection issues. The CPP brings together consumer protection organisations from across the UK jointly to identify and prioritise areas where there is greatest risk of harm to consumers and to agree and coordinate collective action to tackle detriment, making use of all available tools at the disposal of each member. This includes any EU Exit related issues.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, BEIS officials hold regular discussions with Trading Standards Scotland to identify challenges any emerging areas of consumer harm.</p><p> </p><p>In July 2021, the Department published the <em>Reforming Competition and Consumer Policy </em>consultation<em>.</em> The Department is currently analysing the responses and will respond to the consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 26/10/2021 14:06:33 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360665

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Trading Standards
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding for the enforcement of trading standards following the impact of the (a) UK's departure from the EU and (b) recovery from the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Local authorities across England, Scotland and Wales are responsible for local Trading Standards services. Local authorities are independent from central government and are responsible for determining their resourcing priorities in accordance with the needs of the local electorate. The budget process of the Scottish and Welsh Governments results in the determination of the local government finance settlement which sets out the government grant. The Department for the Economy funds the Trading Standards Service in Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 26/10/2021 14:05:24 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1360666

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Trading Standards: Finance
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 the Government will provide additional funding to (a) National Trading Standards and (b) Trading Standards Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	58450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Local Trading Standards Services are funded solely by local authorities, which are independent from central government. These authorities are responsible for determining their spending priorities and they are accountable to their local electorate. Funding is not ringfenced, so local authorities make decisions according to their individual needs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department provides funding to National Trading Standards (NTS) and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS), to enable local authorities to take coordinated action specifically on consumer harm issues that cross local authority boundaries; for instance, doorstep crime and mass-marketing scams. We have provided a single enforcement grant of £12,027,000 to National Trading Standards and £1,215,000 to Trading Standards Scotland for financial year 2021/22. We keep the funding needs of both organisations under constant review.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 58451 question first answered 26/10/2021 14:03:50 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day