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1002128

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2018
	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: Working Hours
	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 the contracted hours are for the highest paid member of staff in the (a) HM Land Registry, (b) Ofgem, (c) Competition and Markets Authority, (d) Companies House, (e) Insolvency Service, (f) Intellectual Property Office, (g) Met Office and (h) UK Space Agency.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	188202
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The highest paid members of staff across these organisations are members of the Senior Civil Service Each has a standard Senior Civil Service contract, where they are required to work a minimum (over a 5-day week) of 42 hours, including daily meal breaks of one hour. However, as a senior civil servant, they are required to work such additional hours as may from time to time be reasonable and necessary for the efficient performance of their duties.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/11/2018 17:26:48 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1019520

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	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 Offices: Closures
	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 the financial effect on (a) local businesses and (b) the community of the closure of dedicated post office premises on the high street.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	198361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2018 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. Franchising is an operational matter for the Post Office. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Group Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her 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 14/12/2018 09:42:58 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1028514

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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: Migrant Workers
	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 plans to cover the £65 application fee for the resettlement process for EU Nationals employed by his Department after March 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	203966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government currently does not plan to pay the Settled Status Fee for its non-UK EU citizen employees. The fee is set at an affordable rate (£65), less than the cost of a UK passport.</p><p> </p><p>We value the significant contribution made by EU citizens working in the Civil Service and we want these colleagues to continue to play a full role in the work of the Civil Service. We are committed to supporting our EU citizen employees across the Civil Service, the important engagement with EU national networks across government will continue over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 203967 question first answered 07/01/2019 12:06:56 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1028515

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2018
	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: Migrant Workers
	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 has been made of the potential risk of the £65 application fee for the resettlement process to the retention of EU Nationals employed by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	203967
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government currently does not plan to pay the Settled Status Fee for its non-UK EU citizen employees. The fee is set at an affordable rate (£65), less than the cost of a UK passport.</p><p> </p><p>We value the significant contribution made by EU citizens working in the Civil Service and we want these colleagues to continue to play a full role in the work of the Civil Service. We are committed to supporting our EU citizen employees across the Civil Service, the important engagement with EU national networks across government will continue over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 203966 question first answered 07/01/2019 12:06:56 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1041415

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Bodies
	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 staff at (a) Companies House, (b) the Insolvency Service, (c) the Intellectual Property Service (d) the Met Office and (e) the UK Space Agency (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the London Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	208382
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>I have asked the CEO of each organisation to write to the hon. Member on this matter, and copies of these letters are attached.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington attachment 1 file name Attachment to 208382.pdf title Chief Executive Letters 2 file name Attachment to 208383.pdf title Letters from Chief Executives grouped question UIN 208383 question first answered 22/01/2019 14:11:51 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1041416

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Bodies
	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 staff at (a) Companies House, (b) the Insolvency Service , (c) the Intellectual Property Service, (d) the Met Office and (e) the UK Space Agency (i) inside and (ii) outside Greater London are paid at a rate below the Real Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	208383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2019 answer text <p>I have asked the CEO of each organisation to write to the hon. Member on this matter, and copies of these letters are attached.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington attachment 1 file name Attachment to 208382.pdf title Chief Executive Letters 2 file name Attachment to 208383.pdf title Letters from Chief Executives grouped question UIN 208382 question first answered 22/01/2019 14:11:51 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1084386

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2019
	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	European Research Council and Marie Curie Fellowships
	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 6 March 2019 to Question 225494 on European Research Council and Marie Curie Fellowships, if will he publish the independent advice from Sir Adrian Smith.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	230082
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>Further details on the advice Sir Adrian Smith will provide will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 14/03/2019 17:27:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1084387

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2019
	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	Drugs: Research
	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 August 2017 Life sciences: industrial strategy report, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the process of translating academic discovery into industry drug development in (a) immunology, (b) genomics and (c) other areas where the UK is world-leading.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	230083
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The sector’s Life Science Industrial Strategy, authored by Professor Sir John Bell, made recommendations to government in support of the vision for the UK to be a global hub that makes the UK the home of clinical research and medical innovation. The two Life Sciences Sector Deals are collaborative endeavours across government, academia, charities and industry to deliver on this bold vision.</p><p>The two Deals include significant joint investment from government and the sector to support research and development, both academic and commercial, to ensure the UK remains at the forefront of global drug development.</p><p>The UK has a track record of supporting university spin out companies, with the goal of translating innovative research into commercial successes and ultimately treatments that will benefit patients. Catalyst programmes, including Innovate UK and the Medical Research Council’s Biomedical Catalyst aim to de-risk innovative science and commercialise ideas arising out of academia and industry, helping UK SMEs to develop into competitive and sustainable organisations.</p><p>The Government recently announced further support for genomics as part of my rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spring Statement. The announcement featured a £45 million investment for increasing the European Bioinformatics Institute’s computing and storage capacity which underpins much of the UK’s genomics research work, including UK Biobank. This announcement supports the boosting the UK’s genomics sector, which is a key commitment in our second Life Sciences Sector Deal.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 25/03/2019 15:11:11 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1127800

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2019
	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	Climate Change: Public Consultation
	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 will make an assessment of the potential merits of a establishing a citizens assembly on tackling climate change.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	257072
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2019 answer text <p>Climate change is one of the most urgent and pressing challenges we face, and we firmly welcome the national conversation on climate change now underway.</p><p>We engage with citizens issues through a variety of channels, including as part of the first ever Green GB Week, which was held in October 2018 to showcase the benefits, opportunities and challenges of tackling climate change and driving clean growth. We look forward to the second Green Great Britain Week on 4 November 2019 as an opportunity to engage businesses, scientists, entrepreneurs and the public, across the country.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 30/05/2019 11:01:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1131226

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2019
	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	Tidal Power
	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 progress his Department has made on the development of tidal energy.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	263200
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2019 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State made a statement to the House on Monday 25 June 2018 setting out our position on the support for the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon project. The Department’s analysis of the project and the proposed follow-on programme of lagoons was that it did not represent value for money. This remains the Department’s position.</p><p> </p><p>In February, the Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth met the rt. hon. member for Orkney and Shetland, along with a cross-party delegation of Members of Parliament and representatives of the sector, to discuss the potential for alternative methods of funding early tidal stream and wave energy deployment.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/06/2019 12:30:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West