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1520328

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2022
	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	Home Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee 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, when the Home Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme will be introduced; and what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delays to the introduction of that scheme on the number of contracts that will be agreed through it.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	61437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2022 answer text <p>Shipbuilding falls within my Ministerial portfolio, and the Home Shipbuilding Credit Guarantee Scheme is a key priority for early delivery. I am bringing forward our specific proposals for the scheme to Government colleagues, with a view to updating Parliament and launching a scheme this calendar year. BEIS is not aware of any immediate lending cases that have been disadvantaged by the delay in launching the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 19/10/2022 16:24:42 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1548620

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2022
	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	Members: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to respond to the correspondence from the hon. Member for North Durham of 16 August 2021 on Ultra Electronics.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	102846
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2023 answer text <p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to the Rt hon. Member on 30 December 2022 about Ultra Electronics.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 05/01/2023 14:29:50 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani previous answer version 40778 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1544989

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2022
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Astra Asset Management UK
	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 (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have met with Astra Asset Management UK in the past two years.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	94711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>Ministers regularly meet with external stakeholders. Details of ministerial meetings with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found on GOV.UK at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The latest published data covers April to June 2022, further data will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Details of meetings held by civil servants are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 01/12/2022 17:14:23 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1563078

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2022
	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	Postal Services: Universal Service 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, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of a reduction of the Universal Service Obligation to five days with no Saturday deliveries on senders of non-USO mail.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	113206
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service, set out in the Postal Services Act 2011, which requires letter deliveries to every UK address, six days a week at standard price.</p><p> </p><p>There is a clear and transparent process for how changes to the universal postal service should be considered and any change would need to be made through secondary legislation and agreed by Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 12/01/2023 11:47:32 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1563079

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2022
	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	Postal Services: Universal Service 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, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of a reduction in the Universal Service Obligation to five days with no Saturday deliveries on the Post Office and sub-postmasters.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	113207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service, set out in the Postal Services Act 2011, which requires letter deliveries to every UK address, six days a week at standard price.</p><p> </p><p>There is a clear and transparent process for how changes to the universal postal service should be considered and any change would need to be made through secondary legislation and agreed by Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 09/01/2023 14:00:13 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1179808

	registered interest
	date	24/02/2020
	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	Post Office: Fraud
	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 Post Office Ltd is taking to identify former subpostmasters that repaid monies in relation to unproven allegations of financial discrepancies.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	19768
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>Post Office Limited will announce a scheme in the near future which will address historic shortfalls for postmasters who were not part of the Group Litigation. Post Office Limited are actively considering how best to reach all relevant postmasters both past and present as part of this process.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 27/02/2020 09:19:18 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185387

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2020
	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	Horizon IT System: Compensation
	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 much has been paid from the public purse to individual sub-postmasters since the group litigation settlement on the Horizon IT system on 12 December 2019.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	29841
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2020 answer text <p>On 11 December 2019, Post Office Ltd reached a settlement of £57.75m to conclude the Horizon litigation claim. No government money was used to fund the settlement or the related litigation. These were fully funded by Post Office Ltd from its commercial revenues.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 19/03/2020 17:06:48 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1185388

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2020
	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	Horizon IT System: Compensation
	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 officials in his Department have been notified of any payments to individual sub-postmasters following the settlement of the group litigation on the Horizon IT system on 12 December 2020.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	29842
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2020 answer text <p>It is impossible to ignore the financial and emotional suffering that the Horizon litigation process has caused for affected postmasters and their families. The Post Office has accepted – on the Horizon Accounting System – that it got things wrong in the past in its dealings with a number of postmasters and has apologised. This apology is only the start of a process of real change in the Post Office so that this situation is never repeated again.</p><p> </p><p>The Post Office has notified the Department that they have settled two long-running and complex disputes with sub-postmasters who had declined to join the group litigation. As an operational matter for the Post Office, the Government was not party to the discussions.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/03/2020 15:47:57 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1220629

	registered interest
	date	03/07/2020
	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	Personal Care Services: Coronavirus
	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 timeframe is for the reopening of beauty salons as the covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	68671
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>We have now provided other close contact services like beauty salons in England, except Leicester, with the certainty they need to reopen from Monday 13 July, subject to them following the COVID-secure guidelines.</p><p>We need to be confident services are able to reopen in a COVID-secure way for the staff and customers. Our approach is guided by the scientific and medical advice, and our guidance has been developed with input from firms, unions, industry bodies and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and in consultation with Public Health England (PHE) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/07/2020 16:58:42 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1232275

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2020
	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	Horizon IT System: Civil Proceedings
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, on what date HM Treasury was notified by UKGI that the Post Office was to use public money to contest the case Bates v the Post Office.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	86566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2020 answer text <p>Post Office Ltd. (POL) handled the defence of the Group Litigation. All costs in doing so, including legal costs and the settlement in December 2019, were paid using funds from POL’s commercial revenue. BEIS sought and received assurance throughout the process that no public funding was used to contest the litigation.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully grouped question UIN 86567 question first answered 11/09/2020 11:07:37 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones