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1309373

	registered interest
	date	15/04/2021
	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	BT Group: Reorganisation
	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 encourage BT to resume talks with its employees on the company's restructuring plans to protect the livelihoods of key workers.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	181376
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government encourages all employers and employees to engage in dialogue. Where there is a dispute between an employer and a trade union, the Government considers that the resolution of the dispute is a matter for the parties involved. ACAS stands ready to assist the parties to resolve their dispute, should they wish it.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/04/2021 13:44:00 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1487328

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2022
	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
	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 his Department's timescale is for making an assessment of the quantity of forestry needed to grow biomass for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in 2050.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	32608
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2022 answer text <p>The Government only supports sustainable biomass. The Government will publish a Biomass Strategy this year which will consider the volume of forestry residues from sustainable forestry operations and the use of other sustainable feedstocks for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 15/07/2022 13:41:14 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1519895

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2022
	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	Biofuels: Electricity Generation
	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 his Department has made of the reliability of biomass as a method of producing electricity.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	59363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2022 answer text <p>Sustainable biomass can be used to produce renewable and low-carbon electricity and has numerous system benefits from dispatchability to inertia, stable established supply chains and prices, providing energy security within a net zero consistent energy system.</p><p>The sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. Biomass helps to balance the energy grid when this is the case.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/10/2022 16:23:06 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1462157

	registered interest
	date	11/05/2022
	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: Subsidies
	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 Answer of 3 November 2021 to Question 64728; which meetings his Department has held over the last decade to discuss the burning of wood pellets with (a) Drax lobbyists and (b) scientists.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2022 answer text <p>UK Government officials meet frequently with businesses and stakeholders involved in renewable electricity generation. As a major renewable electricity generator in the UK, officials meet regularly with Drax Group. A list of ministerial meetings is available online and can be found here, <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> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/05/2022 09:41:51 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1257185

	registered interest
	date	01/12/2020
	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	Business: 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 steps he is taking to ensure businesses are making their workplaces covid-secure for employees.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	123672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2020 answer text <p>The Safer Workplaces <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/working-safely-during-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">guidance</a> includes robust health and safety measures to ensure businesses are supported or, where required, challenged. Alongside legal requirements covered in the guides, they outline the enforcement powers held by the Health and Safety Executive and local authorities (section 1.2).</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 09/12/2020 12:23:20 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1454184

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2022
	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	Carbon Emissions: Coal and Timber
	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 he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the IPCC data which shows that the carbon emissions from burning wood are 1.18 times higher than those for burning coal; and what the corresponding change in gross stack emissions has been at Drax per MWh as a result of its switch to wood from coal.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	146696
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2022 answer text <p>The UK reports and accounts for biomass use in accordance with internationally agreed rules, follow the guidance from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This guidance avoids double counting of emissions in both the forest and energy sectors. The loss of carbon stock from harvesting operations in the forestry sector are reported in the Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry sector of the country of harvest and may lead to an increase in the carbon stock of other carbon pools such as deadwood, litter, soil and harvested wood products. The portion of forestry products that is used for energy is assumed to be instantaneously oxidised in the country in which harvesting happens.</p><p> </p><p>For transparency, the UK reports internationally the emissions of carbon dioxide from bioenergy use as a memo item, outside of national totals, in accordance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change requirements. It also reports the emissions of nitrous oxide and methane from biomass combustion as part of the national total of GHG emissions. OFGEM also 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 01/04/2022 12:35:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1303980

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2021
	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	Climate Change: Advisory 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, with reference to the UK hosting COP26, what steps he is taking to ensure there are no conflicts of interest on the (a) Committee on Climate Change and (b) other Government climate advisory boards.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	171686
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2021 answer text <p>This November, the UK will host COP26 in Glasgow bringing together world leaders, climate experts, business leaders and citizens to agree ambitious action to tackle climate change. We are setting out ambitious plans across key sectors of the economy, and ahead of COP26 we will be publishing further plans including a comprehensive Net Zero Strategy. We are extremely grateful to our independent advisors, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), for their expert analysis and advice in this process, including their recommendations on the level of the Sixth Carbon Budget published in December 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Government expects all holders of public office to work to the highest personal and professional standards. According to the Code of Conduct for Board Members of Public Bodies, members must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>In order to prevent conflict of interests within the CCC, BEIS carries out thorough due diligence exercises on each new member prior to approving their appointment. The CCC also have their own conflict of interest policies, which require members and staff to recognise and disclose activities that might give rise to actual or perceived conflicts of interest.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 26/03/2021 14:31:08 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1489001

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2022
	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	Coal: Surrey
	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 publish the (a) number and (b) dates of meetings between Ministers in his Department and officials at UK Oil and Gas on the Surrey coal mine since 1 January 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	36059
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>This Department holds many meetings with companies to discuss a wide range of business issues. Details of meetings held by Ministers in the Department are recorded in our transparency data, which is published at</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/collections/beis-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2022 16:44:55 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1278700

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2021
	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	Conditions of Employment
	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 publish the Government's response to his Department's July 2019 consultation, Good Work Plan: Proposals to Support Families.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	140900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2021 answer text <p>We are currently assessing the responses from the consultation on high-level options for reforming parental leave and pay. We have also conducted a formal evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme, including large-scale, representative surveys of employers and parents. Together, these will give us a fuller picture of how well the current system of parental leave and pay is working for parents and employers.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently processing and analysing the data that we have collected and will consider this in tandem to the information that we have collected through the consultation. This has taken longer than expected due to the impact of Covid-19 on our research partners and because we have necessarily prioritised work on supporting parents during the pandemic. We will publish our findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 29/01/2021 13:19:19 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1463705

	registered interest
	date	17/05/2022
	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	Construction
	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 take steps to ensure that consumer protections under Part 3 of the Consumer Rights Act, which establishes a 14 day right to cancel, apply to contracts for an extension with a double glazing company in the same manner as they would apply to a building company.
	tabling member constituency	Bath
	tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
	uin	3704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2022 answer text <p>The Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 provide a 14 day right to cancel in respect of certain categories of contract between a consumer and a trader where the contract is entered into away from business premises (e.g. online or by phone). The Regulations generally apply in respect of extensions to existing buildings but not to the construction of new buildings or the sale of immovable property.</p><p> </p><p>Further information on this can be found at: <a href="https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/getting-home-improvements-done/cancelling-building-or-decorating-work/" target="_blank">https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/getting-home-improvements-done/cancelling-building-or-decorating-work/</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 25/05/2022 09:07:55 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse