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1187232

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent discussions he has had with representatives of the airline industry on the repatriation of UK nationals.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	33709
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government is working in partnership with the airline industry to help British people travelling abroad to return to the UK, and up to £75 million in Government funding has been pledged to bring UK travellers back home.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Transport is working closely with the FCO and airlines to ensure effective communication with and support for Britons who are trying to return home, and is working intensively with international partners to keep air routes and critical transit hubs open so that passengers can return by commercial means wherever possible. Where commercial routes are no longer available, charter flights are being arranged.</p><p> </p><p>This continues to be a challenging situation, as different countries introduce restrictions, but the Government and airlines are continuing to make progress, and a large number of Britons have now returned to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 21/04/2020 16:09:12 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1186090

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Airports: Closures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps the Government is taking to prevent airports throughout the country from closing.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	31539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2020 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor’s recent announcement, we are working urgently to develop proposals to support the UK aviation industry - we are committed to ensuring the sector and its employees come through this crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 23/03/2020 15:56:04 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1181292

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2020
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Roads: Schools
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many road traffic accidents have taken place outside schools in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	22026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Transport collects and publishes data on the location of road traffic accidents. However, we do not collect or define a variable which states whether these accidents occurred outside schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 03/03/2020 16:35:06 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1142298

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Minimum Wage
	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 progress her Department has made on reviewing the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme; and when she plans to resume naming employers under that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	282556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to taking tough action against employers who underpay the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage (NMW). Our budget for enforcement and compliance stands at a record high and last year HM Revenue and Customs issued a record £17 million in penalties to employers who broke the rules.</p><p>We are in the process of concluding the evaluation of the NMW Naming Scheme. Any changes made to the Scheme will be made through an updated version of our published enforcement policy in due course, following which regular naming of employers who have breached NMW rules will resume.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 03/09/2019 15:23:47 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1142311

	registered interest
	date	25/07/2019
	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	Gratuities
	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 she plans to (a) publish a response to the consultation on tips, gratuities, cover and service charges which closed on 27 June 2016 and (b) bring forward legislative proposals on service charges.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	282563
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Through the Good Work Plan we have committed to legislate on a range of areas to enhance workers’ rights, including to ensure that all tips left to workers go to them in full.</p><p> </p><p>We expect over a million workers to benefit, many of whom are in low-paid jobs. Consumers will have reassurance that the money they leave in good faith is going to the staff, as they intended.</p><p> </p><p>The Good Work Plan set out an ambitious programme to take forward the vast majority of the recommendations made in the Taylor Review. We have already implemented key commitments, through secondary legislation to increase workers’ rights and protections, and improve transparency for workers, from day one. We will bring forward further measures when Parliamentary time allows.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 03/09/2019 15:21:49 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1132289

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2019
	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	Minimum Wage: Enforcement
	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 11 June 2019 to Question 261273, what the outcomes of the HMRC investigations that were completed but did not result in employers being found non-compliant were.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	264793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>HMRC may open an investigation into an employer’s compliance with National Minimum Wage law either following a worker complaint or via proactive risk-based enforcement activity. Where HMRC find no minimum wage arrears are due, they will not take enforcement action such as issuing a Notice of Underpayment and financial penalty.</p><p> </p><p>Where HMRC find that arrears are due to workers they will generally issue a Notice of Underpayment and financial penalty. In some cases, employers may be allowed to carry out self-correction action which ensures that workers are paid the money due to them without the issue of a Notice of Underpayment. Overall, in 2018/19 HMRC found arrears in 45% of cases they closed; this “strike rate” has increased year-on year since the introduction of the National Living Wage in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>This information will be covered in more detail in BEIS’ Minimum Wage Enforcement and Compliance report, which we will publish in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 20/06/2019 09:03:25 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 124076 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1132535

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2019
	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	Minimum Wage
	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 17 June 2019 to Question 263213 on Conditions of Employment, whether the employers subject to labour market enforcement undertakings for non-payment of the national minimum wage will be considered for naming when the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme resumes.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	265603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/06/2019 answer text <p>Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is a priority for the Government. We have more than doubled the budget for NMW compliance and enforcement since 2015, to a record high of £27.4 million. The 2018/19 financial year was a record year for NMW enforcement; HMRC identified £24.4 million in arrears across 3,018 cases – a record number since the introduction of the National Living Wage in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>In line with the published NMW enforcement policy, any employer who have been issued a Notice of Underpayment resulting from a breach of National Minimum Wage law will be considered for naming under the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>This applies regardless of whether the employer is also subject to a Labour Market Enforcement Undertaking or Order.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 20/06/2019 09:03:18 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1132290

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2019
	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	Minimum Wage: Enforcement
	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 10 June 2019 to Question 260713 on Minimum Wage, whether the Director of Labour Market Enforcement recommended that the naming of non-compliant employers be suspended for the duration of the review of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	264794
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to enforcing the National Minimum Wage (NMW). We have more than doubled HMRC’s budget for NMW compliance and enforcement since 2015 to £27.4 million for 2019/20.</p><p> </p><p>The Director of Labour Market Enforcement recommended evaluation of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme in his 2018/19 Strategy. The Director’s consultation revealed mixed views from stakeholders about naming; some were strongly supportive, whilst others proposed ideas for increasing its effectiveness as a deterrent to underpayment of the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>The Government decided to pause the naming of non-compliant employers while we determine what changes are needed to make sure the scheme continues to have resonance and acts as a tool to drive compliance.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/06/2019 09:25:45 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1131361

	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	Minimum Wage
	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 10 June 2019 to Question 260713 on Minimum Wage, what further evidence he plans to collate as part of his review of the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme; and what public consultation he plans to undertake during that review.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	263217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy take regular advice from the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME), and most recently met with him in October to discuss the Government response to his 2018/19 Labour Market Enforcement Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The review of the NMW Naming Scheme will draw upon evidence from a wide range of internal and external sources. Officials have discussed the evidence with the DLME and the Government has also sought to learn from other naming schemes and regulatory approaches.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2019 the Government received the report “Non-Compliance and Enforcement of the NMW” from the independent and expert Low Pay Commission. This report summarised consultation responses they had received relating to the operation of the NMW Naming Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We are in the process of concluding the review and will publish any resulting effects on the operation of the Naming Scheme through the NMW Enforcement policy documents.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 263215 question first answered 18/06/2019 16:26:02 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock

1131358

	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	Minimum Wage
	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 times Ministers of his Department have met the Director of Labour Market Enforcement to discuss the National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme since 6 July 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley East
	tabling member printed	Stephanie Peacock
	uin	263215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2019 answer text <p>Ministers from the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy take regular advice from the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME), and most recently met with him in October to discuss the Government response to his 2018/19 Labour Market Enforcement Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The review of the NMW Naming Scheme will draw upon evidence from a wide range of internal and external sources. Officials have discussed the evidence with the DLME and the Government has also sought to learn from other naming schemes and regulatory approaches.</p><p> </p><p>In April 2019 the Government received the report “Non-Compliance and Enforcement of the NMW” from the independent and expert Low Pay Commission. This report summarised consultation responses they had received relating to the operation of the NMW Naming Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>We are in the process of concluding the review and will publish any resulting effects on the operation of the Naming Scheme through the NMW Enforcement policy documents.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst grouped question UIN 263217 question first answered 18/06/2019 16:26:01 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4607 label Biography information for Stephanie Peacock