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926858

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Fracking: Plastics
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 effect of fracking supply chains on the level of manufacture of non-degradable plastics.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	155323
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave her on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2018 to Question <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-05-21/146306/" target="_blank">146306</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2018 15:48:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

926901

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Newspaper Press: Wholesale Trade
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 plans he has to commission an investigation on the newspaper supply chain to examine the effect of wholesaler dominance on the newspaper industry.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
uin	155170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Investigations into competition issues are a matter for the Competition and Markets Authority, the UK’s independent competition authority.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 14:01:52 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

926905

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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: Pregnancy
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 page eight of the the Government response to Women and Equality Select Committee Report on Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination, published in January 2017, what progress is being made to consider and bring forward proposals to ensure that employment protections are sufficient for those who are pregnant or returning from maternity leave.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	155213
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government was responding to a recommendation about protection from redundancy. In the response to the Matthew Taylor Review of modern working practices, the Government committed to review the legislation relating to redundancy protection and consider whether this is sufficient. This work is underway.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 14:01:34 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926906

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Pregnancy: Discrimination
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 estimate the Government has made of the number of women who could be experiencing discrimination at work whilst (a) pregnant, (b) on maternity leave and (c) returning from maternity leave; and what plans the Government has to regularly update those figures.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	155214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>In 2016 EHRC published the findings of a substantial research programme (commissioned jointly with the then Department for Business Innovation and Skills) based on interviews with 3,034 employers and 3,254 mothers. This found that around one in nine mothers reported that they were either dismissed; made compulsorily redundant, where others in their workplace were not; or treated so poorly they felt they had to leave their job.</p><p> </p><p>The next estimate will be in 2020 to allow time for the current package of interventions to take effect. ln the interim Government will monitor others’ findings (such as the recent EHRC poll on employer attitudes) for any signs that the interventions are starting to have an impact or of changes in employers’ practices.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 14:02:47 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926907

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Employment Tribunals Service: Pregnancy
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 estimate he has made of the number of cases of maternity discrimination that have been taken to Employment Tribunals in each of the past five years.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	155215
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The number of cases of maternity discrimination taken to employment tribunals can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics</a>. The data for the last five years is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>Number of receipts (claims):</p><p>Financial Year Suffer a detriment/unfair dismissal maternity</p><ul><li>2013/14 - 1,248</li><li>2014/15 - 790</li><li>2015/16 - 865</li><li>2016/17 - 872</li><li>2017/18 - 1,336</li></ul><p> </p><p>Number of disposals (cases closed):</p><p>Financial Year Suffer a detriment/unfair dismissal maternity</p><ul><li>2013/14 - 1,426</li><li>2014/15 - 955</li><li>2015/16 - 856</li><li>2016/17 - 779</li><li>2017/18 - 930</li></ul> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 14:02:28 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926908

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Employment Tribunals Service
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 estimate he has made of the number of Employment Tribunal cases that have successfully been brought beyond the three-month court time limit.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Mrs Maria Miller
uin	155216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>Government has figures available for the first quarter. Over that period, 21 cases were received out of time citing pregnancy/maternity as the reason. All of these cases were accepted.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 16:28:09 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller

926950

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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: Departmental Responsibilities
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 priority has been accorded to the policy areas of (a) energy security, (b) action on climate change and (c) renewable energy since his Department took on responsibilities from the Department for Energy and Climate Change; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	155263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>Ensuring that the UK has secure, reliable and low carbon supplies of energy are key priorities for the Government. We are investing in new power generation technologies that are diversifying our electricity generation and reducing carbon emissions while ensuring security of supply.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, supported by our investment of more than £52bn, renewable capacity has quadrupled, while the UK has had the highest rate of decarbonisation of any G20 country in 2016[i]. The Capacity Market has ensured that security of supply can go hand in hand with decarbonisation, having already secured the bulk of our electricity needs through to 2021/22.</p><p> </p><p>[i] PwC’s Low Carbon Economy Index</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2018 15:47:49 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

926951

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Warm Home Discount Scheme: Pensioners
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 estimate he has made of the number of pensioners who do not receive the Warm Home Discount as a result of being customers of a supplier with fewer than 250,000 customers; and whether his Department plans to extend the obligation to provide that discount to smaller energy suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	155175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>On 15 June, Government announced that it will lower the threshold for suppliers’ participation in the scheme from 250,000 down to 150,000 customer accounts between 2019 and 2021. From 2021, if the scheme were to continue, Government will review the threshold, with a view to continuing to reduce it, if the evidence supports this approach. A gradual approach will ensure that smaller suppliers have enough time to put the right processes in place to take part in the scheme and reflects the increasing maturity of challengers in the energy retail market.</p><p> </p><p>Of the roughly 1.4m Pension Credit Guaranteed Credit recipients, over 1.2m receive the Warm Home Discount automatically on their energy bills as a result of being with a participating supplier and being named on the energy bill. We estimate that roughly 60,000 pension credit guarantee credit recipients who would be eligible under the scheme do not receive the rebate as a result of being with a non-participating supplier. As a result of the changes introduced, 20,000 more pensioners in 2019/20, and an additional 10,000 pensioners in 2020/21 could benefit from the scheme, if the eligibility criteria were to continue in their current form.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 27/06/2018 15:42:11 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

926970

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Retail Trade: Sales
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 assesment his Department has made of trends in retail sales over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	155314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK retail sector forms a vital part of the UK economy. Statistics for 2018 are yet to be published, but for the 3-year period from 2014-2017, retail sales grew from £334 billion in 2014 to £362 billion in 2017, representing growth of 8.6%. In 2017, internet sales as a proportion of total retail sales was 16% compared to 11% in 2014.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 25/06/2018 14:02:12 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

926999

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
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	Federation of Small Businesses: Northern Ireland
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 meetings he has had with the Federation of Small Businesses Northern Ireland since the referendum on the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	155245
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy meets with the National Policy Director and the National Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses most weeks and they regularly discuss the issues that are affecting businesses in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>Various officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have had meetings with the Federation of Small Businesses Northern Ireland and continue to do so.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility has not received any requests to meet with the Federation of Small Businesses Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 27/06/2018 15:44:07 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson