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78870

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within the Law Officers' Departments' responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206649
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>None. The UK has not been subject to infraction proceedings, during this period, which relate directly to matters within the Law Officers’ Departments’ areas of responsibility.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/09/2014 14:02:07 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89419

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by the Law Officers' Departments since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments have not transposed any EU directives or regulations into UK law since May 2010.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 03/09/2014 13:37:35 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78880

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>Since May 2010 the UK has not lost any EU infraction proceedings falling within the responsibility of the Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 03/09/2014 14:18:10 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89472

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has transposed two EU directives into UK law since 2010 and six directly applicable regulations have come into effect in the Cabinet Office’s area of responsibility in the same period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 05/09/2014 11:00:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

229054

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had on the EU Accounting and Transparency Directives; and what steps he is taking to ensure compliance with those Directives.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	228761
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2015 answer text <p>Since making the Reports on Payments to Government Regulations and the introduction of the Financial Conduct Authority rules in December 2014 the government has continued to have discussions with all stakeholders. The most recent meeting between the department, civil society and industry representatives was held in February 2015. I have since spoken to representatives from the Publish What You Pay coalition.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government takes extractive transparency very seriously. To support compliance the department has made information available on the gov.uk website. This includes a schema for delivering reports and step by step guidance on how to fill in the report format, both agreed with industry and civil society.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government expects companies to comply with the requirements of the Regulations, which set out the enforcement and penalty regime for any company that fails to comply in part or in full.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Reports will be published on the Companies House website in 2016, when all interested parties will be able to consider the reports and their accuracy.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 26/03/2015 14:19:32 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

426055

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many EU directives have been transposed into UK law without any additional material being included since the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, and what percentage of the total number of directives transposed that number represents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Inglewood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However, in July 2011 the Government put in place its Guiding Principles for EU Legislation, which state that the Government will not go beyond the minimum requirements of the measure which is being transposed, save in exceptional circumstances. Since the Guiding Principles have applied there have been only five instances of new “gold-plating” of EU Directives that have placed additional costs on business which is attached.</p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 18/11/2015 17:25:48 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name guiding-principles-for-eu-legislation.pdf title Guiding principles for EU Legislation
	tabling member	1980 label Biography information for Lord Inglewood

78876

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206648
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>Since May 2010 the UK has not lost any EU infraction proceedings falling within the responsibility of BIS.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89452

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2014 answer text <p>Details of all EU legislation, including full details of all EU directives that have come into force since May 2010, can be found on the European Commission's website:</p><p><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html" target="_blank">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html</a></p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/09/2014 13:36:22 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

78890

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206651
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department has never lost an EU infraction case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 10/09/2014 16:12:43 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

89519

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many new EU directives and regulations have been transposed into UK law by his Department since May 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wokingham
	tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	207254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The Recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive came into force on 19 May 2010, with a transposition date of 9 January 2013.</p><p>The Departmental portfolio includes EU Regulations that do not require transposition such as the EU Construction Products Regulation which was adopted in March 2011 and came fully into force in July 2013 and the European Structural and Investment Funds Regulations.<br><br>It is the Department's policy under this Government to avoid and reverse the gold-plating of EU directives by the Labour Government; for example, we have done this on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive by scaling back the rules on Energy Performance Certificates to the minimum requirements of the directive and scrapping Home Information Packs.<br><br>We also wish to renegotiate powers back to the United Kingdom where appropriate; as a small but pertinent example, my Department has successfully removed the legal requirement in the European Regional Development Fund Regulations (introduced in 2006 under the Labour Government) to fly the EU flag outside our building for one week a year after Europe Day.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 13/10/2014 15:18:10 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
	tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood