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1400344

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	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	Small Businesses: Carbon Emissions
	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 his Department is taking to help small and medium businesses reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	98915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government continues to support UK businesses in meeting their net zero commitments. The former Net Zero Business Champion, Andrew Griffith MP, led the Race to Zero campaign targeting small and medium businesses, which boasts 2,604 participants to date. The Government has also improved support access via the small business campaign. All businesses that have made the small business climate commitment receive monthly communications from the Department, which signpost the latest policy and regulatory changes in addition to the “Together For Our Planet” digital toolkit.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/01/2022 16:18:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 42459 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1400343

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	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	Business: Carbon Emissions
	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 he has made of the implications for his policies of a recent survey by YouGov and Veolia which found less than a third of UK businesses have a strategy for reaching carbon net-zero.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	98914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Government continues to engage with UK businesses to raise awareness of net zero and the benefits to business of making a net zero commitment. For example, through the small business campaign, the Government provides small and medium businesses with resources to help them achieve net zero. The Government has also detailed its strategy for new, economy-wide Sustainability Disclosures Requirements (SDR) in its ‘Greening Finance: A roadmap to Sustainable Investment’ policy paper, published on 18<sup>th</sup> October 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/01/2022 16:18:19 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 42458 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1192825

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Secondment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff of her Department have been seconded to other departments to work on the Government's response to the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	42996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>The response to COVID-19 is a key priority for the Department for International Trade (DIT). Our current estimate is that approximately 75% of our people are working full time or part time on it. This includes our overseas workforce who are supporting the FCO-led crisis response at post.</p><p> </p><p>In the UK DIT has deployed 28 people to 4 other departments for COVID-19 related activity since 4 March 2020, of which 4 people have now returned.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/05/2020 09:45:11 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 20347 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1192817

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the changes in UK imports and exports resulting from the covid-19 pandemic in this financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	42994
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not produce UK trade forecasts. The latest official figures from the Office for National Statistics (year to end February 2020) reports UK exports at £702.4bn (up 6.1% on the previous year) and imports at £714.2bn (up 1.5%). The impact of COVID-19 on UK trade would not yet have been apparent in these figures.</p><p> </p><p>The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) produce the official UK Economic and Fiscal Outlook forecasts. Although the OBR published a COVID19 reference scenario in April, this scenario did not include trade forecasts – the OBR’s latest trade forecasts (March 2020) do not include the impact of COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/05/2020 10:01:00 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 20348 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1260249

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Data Protection: Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that existing safeguards on people’s (a) privacy and (b) data protection will be replicated as part of a future WTO agreement on cross-border data flows; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	128150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>The UK government is seeking provisions in trade agreements that remove barriers to the free flow of data, while not lowering the standard of protection afforded to the personal data of UK individuals. The UK is, and will remain, committed to maintaining high standards of protection for personal data, including when it is transferred across borders. The UK recognises the importance of data protection to enable trading partners to build trust through transparent treatment of personal data and to ensure that data is able to flow in an uninterrupted manner.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">Currently cross-border data flows as well as privacy and personal information protection are being discussed at the e-commerce negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The UK will not sign up to any agreement at the WTO which will put at risk the UK’s high standards of data protection, or the personal data protection or privacy currently afforded to UK individuals.</ins></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 15/12/2020 14:56:54 question first ministerially corrected 16/12/2020 09:44:24 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 69318 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

820771

	registered interest
	date	11/01/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2018 to Question 120867, on Trade Agreements, for what reason that answer does not contain the list of organisations which submitted responses.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	122189
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2018 answer text <p>We have made public a summary of the responses we received which was published on 5 January. Views are not attributed to individual respondents or groups of respondents. We have summarised the responses and some organisations have made their own responses public. For those that haven’t we are treating their response as confidential.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/01/2018 12:26:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 34686 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

810522

	registered interest
	date	21/12/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 19 December 2017 to Question 118624, on trade agreements, if he will list the organisations that submitted responses.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	120867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2018 answer text <p>Following the publication of the Trade White Paper: Preparing for our future UK trade policy, we received 150 responses providing feedback on specific questions posed in the White Paper. In addition, we received a number of responses (7429) as part of a Civil Society campaign. Responses to the questions have been analysed and collated into themes around the key principles as set out in the White Paper. We have made public a summary of the responses we received which was published on 5 January. Views are not attributed to individual respondents or groups of respondents. The Response can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-white-paper-preparing-for-our-future-uk-trade-policy-government-response" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-white-paper-preparing-for-our-future-uk-trade-policy-government-response</a></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/01/2018 14:24:56 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 33123 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

806173

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Statutory Instruments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether he plans to seek to establish a sifting committee to consider statutory instruments created under legislation introduced by his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	119374
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>The organisation of parliamentary Committees is a matter for Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 19/12/2017 13:37:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 30543 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

804433

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Sustainable Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what representations he has received from the Fairtrade Foundation on the effect on the UK's Sustainable Development Goals of the provisions in his Department's Trade Bill, published in November 2017; and what assessment he has made of that effect.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	118622
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers and officials at the Department of International Trade (DIT) regularly meet with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Fairtrade Foundation.</p><p>The UK is a leading voice in support of free trade as a tool for economic development and a proud advocate of helping developing countries trade their way out of poverty. That is why DIT and the Department for International Development (DFID) are working together to ensure development and global prosperity are at the heart of UK trade and investment policy.</p><p>We have pledged to support the world’s poorest countries access UK markets once we leave the EU, to help fulfil our commitment to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals, both at home and around the world.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 19/12/2017 15:28:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 30008 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

797697

	registered interest
	date	29/11/2017
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Written Ministerial Statement of 27 November 2017 on trade matters, HCWS271, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of appointing the nine Her Britannic Majesty's Trade Commissioners.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	116660
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2017 answer text <p>The department has budgeted for up to £80,000 for the recruitment of Her Britannic Majesty’s Trade Commissioners. This includes candidate attraction, recruitment and assessment costs.</p><p>These activities are standard procedure for senior positions across government and will ensure we attract a wide and diverse candidate field and appropriately test key leadership behaviours and technical expertise for these flagship roles.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 05/12/2017 14:42:13 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 26969 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson