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1037279

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Energy: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to support people with the cost of household energy bills.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	908450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Last week this Government delivered on its promise to cap energy prices.</p><p> </p><p>It now protects over 11 million households, ensuring the energy market works for all customers and saving consumers up to around £130 a year.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to invest at least £640m in energy efficiency annually until 2028 and are also delivering on our smart meter programme.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:32 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

1037280

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Billing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to ensure full and timely payments to small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	908447
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Small Business Commissioner has recovered £2 million for small businesses in his first year. We have recently taken steps to strengthen the Prompt Payment Code, and we are working through nearly 300 responses to our recent call for evidence on creating a more responsible payment culture.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:59 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1037281

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent steps he has taken to support small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	908443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>Through our modern Industrial Strategy, we are making the UK one of the best places in the world for businesses to start up and grow.</p><p> </p><p>The Government-owned British Business Bank is supporting nearly 78,000 small businesses with over £5.5 billion of finance; and we’ve extended funding for the Start Up Loans Company until 2021, supporting 10,000 more entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p><p>We’re also providing £56m of funding to boost business productivity, including £11m to create a Small Business Leadership Programme.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

1037282

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Fuel Poverty
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle fuel poverty.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karen Lee
uin	908446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>This Government made a clear Manifesto commitment to tackle fuel poverty by committing to upgrading all fuel poor homes to EPC Band C by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>We are making progress in particular by tackling the most energy inefficient homes. Since 2010 there are almost 800,000 fewer fuel poor households living in homes rated E, F or G.</p><p> </p><p>The average fuel poverty gap has also dropped 6 per cent in real terms since 2010 and last year I refocused the whole of the £630m ECO annual budget on tackling fuel poverty without the help of her party I might add who voted against the measures.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/01/2019 15:29:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4664 label Biography information for Karen Lee

1037283

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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	Money Laundering
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What steps he is taking to tackle money laundering.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	908448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2019 answer text <p>The Financial Action Task Force has just completed a landmark review of the UK’s regime for tackling money laundering, concluding that we have some of the strongest controls in the world.</p><p> </p><p>We are building on our strengths. In the last six months, the Department has published a draft bill to tackle money laundering in the property market; set out reforms to tackle misuse of limited partnerships; and committed to consulting on reforms to Companies House.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 08/01/2019 15:30:20 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1037579

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit: Contracts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many contracts for no deal Brexit preparations have been awarded to (1) McKinsey, (2) Boston Consulting Group, (3) Bain and Company, (4) PwC, (5) KPMG, and (6) EY since 1 January 2018; what was the value of each of any such contracts; and which departments have been responsible for issuing any such contracts.
tabling member printed	Lord Adonis
uin	HL12639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Department has not awarded any contracts to the firms in question where the sole purpose of the engagement was no deal planning.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 15/01/2019 16:27:39 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3743 label Biography information for Lord Adonis

1037580

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Repatriation
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the costs in each of the last three years of repatriating to the UK British nationals who are convicted of criminal offences overseas; and whether they intend to pay the same costs for British nationals forced into marriage overseas; and if not, why not.
tabling member printed	Baroness Afshar
uin	HL12640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>Costs associated with the deportation/return of British citizens to the UK at the end of a criminal sentence abroad are borne by the country seeking to deport/return them.</p><p>Victims of forced marriage who are helped to return to the UK by the Forced Marriage Unit will no longer be asked to take out a loan for their repatriation costs. From now on, no one who is assisted by the Forced Marriage Unit - and would previously have been offered a loan - will have to cover the costs of their repatriation. Where possible, the Government will continue to seek to ensure the costs fall on the perpetrators by means of Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs). The Government has also agreed to ensure that those victims who have outstanding loans will have no further costs fall to them.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 22/01/2019 17:21:00 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3847 label Biography information for Baroness Afshar

1037581

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministers: Peers
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were ennobled on their appointment as ministers in the Parliaments of (1) 2001–05, (2) 2005–10, (3) 2010–15, (4) 2015–17, and (5) 2017 to date; and how long each of those ministers served as ministers broken down by (a) zero to six months, (b) six months to one year, (c) one year to 18 months, (d) 18 months to two years, and (e) longer than two years.
tabling member printed	Lord Balfe
uin	HL12641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The following table shows the number of individuals who were ennobled on their appointment as a minister and how long those ministers served in Government:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Parliament</p></td><td rowspan="2"><p>Total no of individuals</p></td><td colspan="6"><p>Length of service in Government</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>0-6 months</p></td><td><p>6 months to 1 year</p></td><td><p>1 year to 18 months</p></td><td><p>18 months to 2 years</p></td><td><p>More than 2 years</p></td><td><p>Ongoing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001-2005</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005-2010</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2015</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2017</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 to date</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 15/01/2019 13:43:11 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	4302 label Biography information for Lord Balfe

1037583

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Leader of the House of Lords
answering dept id	92
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name	Leader of the House of Lords
hansard heading	Brexit: Parliamentary Scrutiny
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask the Leader of the House what estimate she has made of the parliamentary time required in the House of Lords to complete the remaining Brexit related bills before 29 March 2019; and whether the time available allows for the usual minimum intervals.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL12642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>It is my intention that we should create the time to do our business properly. I note that so far all bills associated with Brexit have been scheduled in accordance with the minimum intervals recommended in The Companion. As the Noble Lord will recall, from time to time the recommended minimum intervals have, with Usual Channels agreement, been dispensed with when it has been necessary for the House to do so. I undertake to work with my counterparts in the usual channels to ensure that business continues to be scheduled in a way which allows proper scrutiny.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 21/01/2019 15:46:36 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1037585

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Brexit
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to suspend Article 50 in the event that Parliament rejects the current Brexit deal.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL12644
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s firm policy remains that we will not extend or revoke the Article 50 notice. As a result, we will be leaving the European Union on 20 March 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 15/01/2019 15:51:39 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton