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730998

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact within the UK of the relocation, following Brexit, of EU medical research and related facilities which are currently based in the UK to other EU member states; and what estimate they have made of the (1) short-term, (2) medium-term, and (3) long-term, costs of those relocations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL19
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>Science and research are vital to our country’s prosperity, security and wellbeing. This Government wants the UK to be the go-to place for innovators and investors across the world, and we intend to secure right outcome for the UK research base as we exit the European Union.</p><p>We have a world class research base and world beating universities and businesses that mean the UK life sciences will continue to thrive. As shown by the recent investment decisions by GSK, Alnylam and Novo Nordisk, the UK remains open for business.</p><p>The Government is committed to ensuring the UK remains a world leader in international research and innovation, including medical research.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 29/06/2017 14:57:53 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

731000

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	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
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what joint response they are making with the governments of other European countries in response to the US announcement of its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord; and what action they are taking to ensure that all G20 countries fulfil their obligations under that agreement.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL20
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The UK underlined our commitment to the Paris Agreement at the G7 Environment Ministers’ meeting earlier this month and at the EU Foreign Affairs and Environment Affairs Councils last week, where, along with European partners, we were clear that we deeply regret the US decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.</p><p>We welcome the continued support that the Paris Agreement has received from other political parties here in the UK, other countries, and subnational and non-state actors in the US and around the world. We will continue to work with the US to encourage them to show the leadership they have in the past on reducing carbon emissions.</p><p>We will continue to work through the G20, and other international fora, to promote the swift and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement. For example, the Government remains committed to the success of the Green Climate Fund as the key new vehicle for helping developing countries adapt to climate change and follow low carbon development paths. Besides the US, 42 Governments have pledged funding to the GCF, including Germany, France, Sweden, Mexico and Colombia.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 29/06/2017 14:57:20 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

626816

	registered interest
	date	01/11/2016
	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	Arctic: Russia
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, following the House of Lords Arctic Committee's <i>Responding to a Changing Arctic</i> report, what steps they are taking with other EU and Arctic Council countries to exchange data with Russia about the Arctic region, especially regarding the methane and dangerous greenhouse gases being generated in this region.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>The Arctic Council plays a key role in gathering and acting on evidence about environmental change in the region. As an Observer State, the UK engages periodically with the Arctic Council’s Black Carbon and Methane Expert Group, including through submitting its National Report on Enhanced Black Carbon and Methane Emissions Reduction in 2015. This was done alongside seven other nations and the EU.</p><p>In October 2016, scientists from UK, Russia, EU and Arctic Council countries met. One of the main issues discussed was the consequence of thawing permafrost in Russia. A key outcome of the discussions will be the development of a roadmap for future research, monitoring and collaboration.</p><p>The Government recognises the importance of understanding change in the Russian Arctic and looks forward to seeing valuable new opportunities arising from the new Agreement on Enhancing Arctic Scientific Cooperation reached by the Arctic States this year. This is expected to be signed and come into operation in 2017. The Government will continue to support UK scientific engagement with the Russian Arctic through the work of the Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Office and others.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 14/11/2016 12:18:56 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

1077064

	registered interest
	date	25/02/2019
	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	Carbon Emissions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how, in developing policies to reduce annual average carbon emissions, they collaborate with other countries who share the same objectives.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL13984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2019 answer text <p>We work collaboratively with other countries to tackle climate change in a variety ways including via multi-lateral fora and global alliances.</p><p>We work on climate via the G7 and G20; we promote ambitious action alongside other countries via the High Ambition Coalition and we drive collective action on the ground through, for example, our hosting of the world’s first zero emission vehicle summit; and creation of Powering Past Coal Alliance, to reduce emissions from the most polluting fuel, which now has over 70 members. We play a key role within the UN Climate Framework, helping secure the agreement of 195 countries to sign up to the historic Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 and then bringing it to life last year at COP24 via the creation of a common rulebook. We are also working with our UN partners to ensure the Secretary General’s Climate Summit in September 2019 brings together key international actors, across the public and private sectors, to drive transformative action on building resilience to climate change.</p><p>UK leadership is reflected in the actions of other countries. For example, we were the first country to introduce long-term legally binding emission reduction target, which has now been emulated across the world, including by France, Denmark, Sweden and Mexico</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/03/2019 15:29:38 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

714300

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	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	Climate Change Convention
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have discussed the objectives of the Paris Agreement with the government of the United States; and whether they intend to continue to work with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other UN agencies to implement those objectives.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6321
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2017 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government is committed to tackling global climate change. We play a leading role internationally and we are delivering on our commitments to create a safer, more prosperous future for us all.</p><p>As he stated in the House of Commons on 28 March, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary raised climate change during his recent visit to Washington. My hon. Friend the Minister for Energy and Industry also raised it during his visit to the United States including during his meeting with Energy Secretary Rick Perry.</p><p>As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said in her speech in Philadelphia earlier this year, climate change does not respect national borders and so is a challenge best faced by leading together, including through multinational institutions, like the United Nations (UN), that encourage cooperation and partnership.</p><p>We remain committed to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process, the Paris Agreement and the institutions that underpin it such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These bodies are invaluable in coordinating global efforts to tackle climate change and ensuring that these efforts are based on robust scientific and economic analysis.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 10/04/2017 13:31:40 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

714935

	registered interest
	date	29/03/2017
	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	Climate Change: Arctic
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will be making representations to the government of the US about reports of the elimination and non-disclosure of scientific data for the Arctic region; and whether they will make representations to UN agencies about the maintenance of this data collection as the Arctic climate changes.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL6422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2017 answer text <p>Whilst this Government does recognise that countries will make their own judgments about how best to contribute to and maintain the scientific record, we fully acknowledge the importance of the integrity of the scientific record. We place significant value on science and evidence-based policy making and we will continue to advocate transparent and open scientific data sharing with our international partners.</p><p> </p><p>At present, it would not be appropriate to comment on specifics without further evidence of the reports being made. The UK and the US do however have a long and successful history of working together on a wide range of scientific and technical disciplines. The UK-US scientific partnership is one of the world’s strongest - nearly 30% of the UK’s international co-authored papers are with the US, producing an impact 50% higher than the UK research base average. We expect this collaboration to continue long into the future.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 07/04/2017 12:16:03 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

1083768

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2019
	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	Conditions of Employment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the statement by Lord Henley on 7 March, whether the proposed clauses on workers' rights for inclusion in the Withdrawal Agreement and Implementation Bill will include improvements to air quality and water quality both outside and inside the workplace.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL14331
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2019 answer text <p>New EU legislation that provides workers’ rights which member states are obliged to confer will be covered by the proposed clauses. Workers’ rights include labour protections regarding health and safety at work. The Government will be required to report on those new rights, whether they go further than current domestic rights, and if so the action the Government proposes to take. Air and water quality standards are only in scope to the extent that they fall within the definition of workers’ rights.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been clear that the UK will maintain and enhance environmental protections as it leaves the EU. As part of the 25 Year Environment Plan, the Government has set an ambition to be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than it found it – and has already put in train a number of policies to achieve this.</p><p> </p><p>The Environment Bill will be introduced early in the second Session of this Parliament, and will include ambitious legislative measures to take direct action to address the biggest environmental priorities of our age: air quality, nature recovery, waste and resource efficiency, and water resource management. In the Environment Bill the Government will legislate to ensure there is a robust framework for the maintenance and strengthening of environmental standards as the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 15/03/2019 12:07:51 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

598133

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2016
	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	Educational Exchanges: EU Countries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they will work with universities in the UK and EU to ensure that exchange programmes similar to the Erasmus programme will continue after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL2162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2016 answer text <p>The referendum result has no immediate effect on students abroad under the Erasmus scheme or applying for 2016/17. Payments will be made in the usual way. Access to the programme after we leave the EU is a matter for the forthcoming negotiations. Consideration of other options will depend on the outcome of these negotiations.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/10/2016 15:54:56 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

919360

	registered interest
	date	07/06/2018
	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	Euratom
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which components of Euratom's work programme will the UK participate in following the current negotiations; and whether those will include regulation, safety, energy coordination, and long term research and development of fusion and nuclear waste policies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL8439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s strategy is to seek a close association with Euratom, to the mutual benefit of the UK and the EU, and to provide maximum continuity for the civil nuclear sector. The components of this future relationship with Euratom are subject to negotiations with the EU. The UK will also seek to fully associate itself with the Euratom Research and Training Programme, including the Joint European Torus (JET) and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and recognises that such an association would necessarily involve an appropriate financial contribution in line with other associated countries.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 21/06/2018 10:24:31 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton

628270

	registered interest
	date	03/11/2016
	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	Fracking
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in developing their policy on fracking, whether they have taken into account the number of earthquakes which measured 3.0 on the Richter Scale in Oklahoma and other places in the US where fracking has been carried out.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Chesterton
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3005
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>We have ensured that strong controls are in place to mitigate seismic risks. Operators in the UK must avoid hydraulically fracturing near faults, and must monitor seismic activity before, during and after operations. Operations will halt if seismic activity exceeds a magnitude of 0.5 or greater on the Richter scale, and the pressure of fluid in the well will be reduced immediately.</p><p>Studies in the United States<sup>(1)</sup> have shown that most induced seismicity is caused by re-injection of waste and produced waters from oil and gas operations, both conventional and unconventional. Re-injection of waste and produced waters will not be permitted from shale gas wells in the UK.</p><p><em>(1) </em><em>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/myths.php</em></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/11/2016 15:53:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2543 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Chesterton