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1388109

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2021
	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	Wood-burning Stoves
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish a definition of sustainably sourced in relation to wood burning in domestic appliances.
	tabling member constituency	Swansea West
	tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
	uin	93692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Sustainability in relation to wood burning for domestic appliances varies depending on the appliance. The sustainability requirement for fuel used in the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which support biomass boilers and pellet stoves used for heating and hot water for domestic properties, includes a greenhouse gas emissions limit and specific land criteria. These requirements are set out in the RHI regulations through the obligation for ‘approved sustainable fuel’ to be used in domestic RHI accredited installations. There is no specific sustainability requirement for fuel for other domestic appliances such as traditional open fires or wood burning stoves.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 13/01/2022 14:45:59 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1400337

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2022
	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	Weddings: Coronavirus
	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 support the Government has made available for local authorities to support wedding industry businesses and those in the supply chain for that sector that have been affected by the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Sedgefield
	tabling member printed	Paul Howell
	uin	99089
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant provides local councils with one-off grant funding to support  hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses in England.  Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-omicron-hospitality-and-leisure-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-omicron-hospitality-and-leisure-grant</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) provides local councils with grant funding to support businesses that are severely impacted by coronavirus and the rise of the Omicron variant, which are not eligible for other grant funding. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-coronavirus-additional-restrictions-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-coronavirus-additional-restrictions-grant</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:30:46 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 42835 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4830 label Biography information for Paul Howell

1401321

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre
	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 discussions he has had with officials in his Department on the sale of the Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	100674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Vaccine Taskforce and UK Research and Innovation are working closely with VMIC, which is a private company, to ensure the UK has a strong domestic vaccine manufacturing capability to contribute to the UK’s resilience against COVID-19 and other future health emergencies. At present these discussions are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:36 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1399453

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	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	Research: Finance
	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 the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, paragraph 2.38, how much money the Government has allocated to support its response to the Nurse review of research councils; and which budget that money will come from.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	96874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 represents a record investment in UK R&amp;D – providing £20 billion per annum by 2024-25. This will support a wide range of initiatives to cement the UK as a global science and technology superpower. Following the Spending Review, BEIS is currently working to set detailed R&amp;D budgets to 2024/25. Further details of how this funding will be allocated will be announced in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:31:01 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1399452

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	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	Research England: Finance
	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 recent assessment his Department has made of differences in Research England funding between the (a) North East and (b) east of England.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	96873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Research England Quality-related Research funding is allocated largely on the basis of the volume of highest quality research as assessed by REF2014. Through the “Expanding Excellence in England” programme, Research England is seeking to grow excellent research capacity where excellence exists but is currently at a small scale with potential for growth.</p><p> </p><p>UKRI are publishing detailed breakdowns of their funding data at a regional level annually to increase transparency of how places benefit from R&amp;D funding. The latest available data is at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Four-work%2Fwhat-we-have-funded%2Fregional-distribution-of-funding%2F2018-to-2019-regional-distribution-of-funding%2F%23contents-list&amp;data=04%7C01%7CSarena.Redwood%40beis.gov.uk%7C9a2af7d78e904b5f864b08d9d0fab552%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637770597458715325%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=rxY4DwwEDqxARfNg4U1DQDqxUS0THnQDbQZqG%2Fl9qpM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ukri.org/our-work/what-we-have-funded/regional-distribution-of-funding/2018-to-2019-regional-distribution-of-funding/#contents-list</a>.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 10:43:08 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1399361

	registered interest
	date	04/01/2022
	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	Regulation: Reform
	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 potential merits of the recommendation by the Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform Taskforce, in its report published in June 2021, to reimpose the one in, two out regulatory offset principle.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	96899
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>A joint consultation on “Reforming the Framework for Better Regulation” between the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Cabinet Office was launched on 22 July 2021. The consultation examined relevant recommendations from the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform report, including reimposing the one in, two out regulatory offset principle. The consultation received 188 responses from a range of stakeholders including business and trade and industry bodies. The Government response to the consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:29:11 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1401576

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
	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 steps he is taking to support research into new zero carbon methods of producing plastics in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	100539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100540 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1401577

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
	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 steps he is taking to increase the proportion of plastics consumed in the UK which are (a) manufactured in the UK and (b) recyclable in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	100540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100539 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1401473

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Parental Leave
	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 26 April 2018 to Question 137053, the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254256, the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 95140 and the Answer of 19 July 2021 to Question 32423 on Parental Leave, when he plans to publish the report of his Department's evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	100575
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Evaluating Shared Parental Leave and Pay is an important part of the policymaking process.</p><p>As part of the evaluation, we commissioned large, representative surveys of parents and employees which asked about a range of parental leave and pay entitlements as well as their experience of Shared Parental Leave specifically. We also consulted on high-level options for reforming parental leave and pay.</p><p>We are currently analysing this information and will publish our findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:34:58 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1401536

	registered interest
	date	10/01/2022
	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	Parental Leave
	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 recent steps he has taken to encourage the take up of shared parental leave.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	100576
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>In order to make it easier for parents to access Shared Parental Leave, and easier for employers to administer it, the Government also launched a new online tool last year. This shows how many weeks of leave and pay are available and lets parents map out how weeks will be shared with their partner, supporting conversations with employers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government is evaluating the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme, which will help us understand what would enable more parents to take up the entitlement. We will publish the findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:33:10 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders