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709445

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2017
	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	Easter
	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 bring into force the provisions of the Easter Act 1928 to fix the date of Easter from 2018 onwards.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	66998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2017 answer text <p>At present, Easter occurs on the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon following the spring equinox. The Easter Act 1928, which remains on the Statute Book, would set the date for Easter to fall on the Sunday that follows the second Saturday in April (i.e. between 9 and 15 April). The Act has not been brought into force. To do so would require an Order in Council, with the approval of both Houses of Parliament. The Act also requires that, before the Order is made, “regard shall be had to any opinion officially expressed by any Church or other Christian Body.&quot;</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 15/03/2017 08:49:35 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight

657320

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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	Fuels: Prices
	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 (a) mechanisms and (b) monitoring systems are in place to ensure that fuel pumps at filling stations deliver the correct amount of fuel so that motorists are not defrauded whether accidently or deliberately.
	tabling member constituency	East Yorkshire
	tabling member printed	Sir Greg Knight
	uin	57252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>Fuel pumps are required by law to be of an approved design based on national and international standards including requirements for accuracy. Each pump must be tested and verified before use. Local authority trading standards monitor the market place and can require any pump found to be inaccurate or not meeting the requirements to be taken out of use.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/12/2016 14:36:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1200 label Biography information for Sir Greg Knight