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answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>BEIS has funded the development of a modelling tool that enables local authorities to set carbon reduction targets, model the impact of various emission reduction interventions and report progress against their targets.</p><p>There are also reporting requirements that are relevant to energy use, for example the requirement in the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 that all 326 local authorities in England submit and publish reports once every two years, demonstrating what energy conservations measures have been adopted to improve the energy efficiency of residential accommodation.</p><p>BEIS uses the data submitted within these returns to inform policy development on energy efficiency.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 15:27:55 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank

1175321

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Nuclear Power
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how much power can currently be supplied to the UK National Grid by nuclear power stations; and what percentage of the total power available to the National Grid that represents.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>In 2018, nuclear power stations provided 9.3 GW of installed capacity to the GB electricity system, equating to 9.2%. They also provided 65 TWh of electricity which is 20.1% of the electricity generated in Great Britain and 19.5% of the electricity generated in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Currently, 7.2 GW of the installed nuclear capacity is generating power for the grid.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 15:28:09 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1175322

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	Energy
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what are the current peak energy requirements of the UK; and what such requirements are predicted to be in 2032.
tabling member printed	Lord West of Spithead
uin	HL829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>National Grid has estimated energy demand for four different future scenarios in the latest version of the future energy scenarios 2019, these are presented in Figure 4.1 on pages 46 and 47. Current (2020) estimated peak annual energy requirements for Great Britain range from 900 to 1,100TWh, depending on the scenario. The same scenarios are used to predict total annual energy requirements for 2032 of between 700 and 1,000TWh.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:11:51 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank attachment 1 file name Future Energy Scenarios 2019.pdf title Future Energy Scenarios 2019
tabling member	3834 label Biography information for Lord West of Spithead

1175337

registered interest
date	27/01/2020
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	European Committee for Standardization
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of Brexit on the UK's membership of the European Committee for Standardization; what discussions they have had with the British Standards Institution on the issue; and what were the outcomes of any such discussions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Scott of Needham Market
uin	HL809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The European standards organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI) are not EU bodies and the British Standards Institution (BSI) is independent from government. We are in regular contact with BSI and are supportive of the steps that they, as the UK’s national standards body, are taking to maintain the high level of influence of UK experts in the European standards organisations, as set out in the Memorandum of Understanding between Government and BSI.</p><p> </p><p>BSI have informed the Department of their intention to retain their membership of the European standards organisations in line with the wishes of UK stakeholders.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:10:29 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	2542 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Needham Market

1175252

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Horizon Europe
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what budget provision they have made for the Horizon Research Programme beyond 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Bassam of Brighton
uin	HL671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>UK scientists, researchers and businesses can continue to participate in, bid for and lead projects in the Horizon 2020 programme as usual after the 31 January 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Political Declaration indicates a shared intent between UK and EU leaders to agree a framework that would support future collaboration in science, research and innovation. On Horizon Europe, there are a number of elements of this package yet to be agreed, including the provisions on third country association and the Programme budget; these elements will inform our decision on future participation.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:12:13 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	3504 label Biography information for Lord Bassam of Brighton

1175282

registered interest
date	23/01/2020
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	Intellectual Property: Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the economic impact to the UK of the unauthorised use by persons or companies based in China of intellectual property developed in the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
uin	HL773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2020 answer text <p>The UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) is an executive agency of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. It is responsible for intellectual policy (IP) policy; educating businesses and consumers about IP rights and responsibilities; supporting IP enforcement; and granting UK patents, trade marks and design rights.</p><p> </p><p>The IPO recognises the significant harm that IP crime causes to the UK economy and is working alongside domestic and international partners to address the problem.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 05/02/2020 14:19:42 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

1175156

registered interest
date	21/01/2020
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	Her Majesty's Government what goals they have set for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, due to be held in Glasgow in November 2020.
tabling member printed	Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
uin	HL602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>As hosts of COP 26 we aim to rally to bring forward ambitious 2030 emissions reductions targets (Nationally Determined Contributions), and to urge countries, businesses and organisations to bring credible plans to hit net zero by 2050. We will publish further details in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 15:28:26 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4282 label Biography information for Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

1175265

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Small Businesses: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the regional disparities in small business lending, as reported in The Times on 21 January.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to levelling up across the whole country so that businesses can access the funding they need to thrive wherever they are.</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank (BBB) is a government-owned economic development bank which helps to drive economic growth by making finance markets work better for small businesses, enabling them to prosper and grow. Since BBB was established in 2014, it has supported over £7 billion of finance to over 91,000 SMEs across the UK (as at June 2019) and continues to grow. The stock of finance supported by the bank grew by 31% year on year (from June 2018 to June 2019).</p><p> </p><p>BBB’s Start Up Loans programme has so far provided 69,201 loans worth over £558m to small businesses (at end-December 2019) and has delivered loans in every parliamentary constituency in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BBB has introduced specific funds and activities to help address regional disparities in access to finance, which are having an increasingly significant impact. These have equity and debt finance components, with the balance of debt to equity set according to the specific needs of the businesses in those regions.</p><p> </p><p>The funds include:</p><ul><li>The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) which has invested over £140m of an overall £400m fund in over 500 ambitious SMEs across the Northern Powerhouse region, in deals that have attracted an additional £140m of investment from the private sector (as of Nov 2019). £80.6m of NPIF so far has been made in debt finance to 474 businesses;</li><li>The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) which has invested over £48 million of an overall £250m fund in over 200 businesses, in deals that have attracted an additional £27m of investment from the private sector (as of Nov 2019). £23.9m of MEIF so far has been in debt finance to 177 businesses.</li></ul><p> </p><p>For equity investment, the BBB also has a £100m Regional Angels Programme, which is designed to help reduce regional imbalances in access to early stage equity finance for smaller businesses across the UK (launched in October 2018 by British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank). In September 2019, the first £10m commitment through the programme was made to one of the largest business angel networks in the North of England which primarily operates in the North West, Yorkshire and the North East with more commitments to be announced in the coming year.</p><p> </p><p>The UK Network, established in early 2019 by the British Business Bank is a UK-wide network of relationship managers which will continue to enhance and further build BBB’s relationships with key SME access to finance stakeholders across the UK and thereby help tackle regional imbalances in access to finance, including for smaller businesses seeking debt finance at all stages of their development.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 03/02/2020 17:13:10 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

1175247

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Flexible Working
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to (1) adopt the EU’s Work-life Balance Directive, (2) make paternity leave a day one right, (3) increase paternity pay, and (4) introduce eight weeks of paid parental leave as part of each parent’s current unpaid 18-week entitlement.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to maintaining and enhancing workers’ rights, and to supporting people to balance their work and caring responsibilities. This month we laid regulations in Parliament which will give grieving parents a right to paid time off work. We also committed in the Queen’s Speech to bring forward an Employment Bill which will <del class="ministerial">make it easier for fathers to take paternity leave;</del> introduce a new entitlement to carer's leave; and <del class="ministerial">to</del> introduce a new entitlement to leave and pay for parents of children who spend time in neonatal care. <ins class="ministerial">Our manifesto committed to make it easier for fathers to take paternity leave; we</ins> <del class="ministerial">We</del> have recently consulted on high-level options for reforming parental leave and pay, including Paternity Leave and Pay and Unpaid Parental Leave, and will respond to this consultation in due course.</p><p> </p><p>After we leave the EU, we will be able to set our own standards for workers’ rights, and we intend to use this opportunity to make the UK the best place in the world to work.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 14:00:05 question first ministerially corrected 07/02/2020 14:40:17 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank previous answer version 4655 answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1175222

registered interest
date	22/01/2020
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	Equal Pay: Ethnic Groups
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to introduce legislation to address the ethnicity pay gap; and if so, when such legislation will be introduced.
tabling member printed	Baroness McGregor-Smith
uin	HL700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government ran a consultation from October 2018 to January 2019 on Ethnicity Pay Reporting and received over 300 detailed responses. BEIS Ministers and officials have met with businesses and representative organisations to understand the barriers towards reporting and what information could be published to allow for meaningful action to be taken. We have also run voluntary methodology testing with a broad range of businesses to better understand the complexities outlined in the consultation using real payroll data and will share next steps in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Duncan of Springbank question first answered 04/02/2020 15:31:03 answering member 4686 label Biography information for Lord Duncan of Springbank
tabling member	4554 label Biography information for Baroness McGregor-Smith