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registered interest
date	16/03/2021
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	Solar Events
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans are in place to ensure that the UK is prepared for any impact resulting from a solar superstorm; and which department is responsible for those preparations.
tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
uin	HL14273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2021 answer text <p>This Government understands that good management of risk is essential for contingency planning, increasing the likelihood that the services we rely on day-to-day are available for citizens and ensuring that we can protect people’s health and safety.</p><p>The Department is the Lead Government Department for the risk of a severe space weather event. BEIS is therefore responsible for coordinating a Cross-Government work programme to ensure that appropriate preparedness and mitigation measures are in place so that impacts from severe space weather are minimised. BEIS working closely with the Met Office, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, other Government Departments, and academic partners has taken significant steps to increase the UK’s preparedness for major space weather events.</p><p>The Department will publish a new space weather strategy later this year, which will set out a five-year road map for how we intend to boost resilience and build on existing UK strength and capacity in this area, to continue to increase our preparedness for a severe space weather event.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 30/03/2021 15:33:30 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

1227697

registered interest
date	22/07/2020
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to bring forward proposals for the regulation of Prepack Administrations; and if so when.
tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
uin	HL7146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2020 answer text <p>The Government will publish a report in due course of its review of the voluntary measures that were introduced in 2015 to enhance regulation of pre-pack administrations. The report will set out the Government’s plans for the future of pre-pack administrations.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 03/08/2020 11:42:21 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

1178508

registered interest
date	13/02/2020
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	Accountancy: Regulation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to reform the regulation of the accounting profession.
tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
uin	HL1644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to acting on the findings of the three independent reviews of audit: the FRC review, the CMA review and the Brydon review, covering respectively the regulator, the market and the audit product itself. We will set out comprehensive proposals for audit reform in the Spring and will then bring forward legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 27/02/2020 12:49:38 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

1137946

registered interest
date	09/07/2019
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	Shareholders: Registration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to require beneficial share owners to be included on shareholder registers.
tabling member printed	Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts
uin	HL17045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2019 answer text <p>The Companies Act (2006) requires companies to keep a register of members and enter the details of members in this register. In the UK, a shareholder is defined as the member on the company’s register of members. In some cases, the shareholder is also the beneficial owner of the shares. The Government has no plans to require beneficial share owners to be included on shareholder registers.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 17/07/2019 13:30:53 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1651 label Biography information for Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts