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1240320

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Heating
	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 make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the PUMP IT UP! campaign's recommendations on large-scale heat pump projects.
	tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
	tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>The Pump It Up campaign recommends that Government commits to a re-think of the future support it makes available to large-scale heat pump projects.</p><p>A new allocation of Tarriff Guarantees has recently opened on the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), supporting larger projects, including large scale ground source heat pumps&gt;100kWth. The Non-Domestic RHI will close to new applicants on the 31st of March 2021 and we have consulted on a new scheme, the Clean Heat Grant, which with a proposed cap on the capacity of eligible appliances at 45kW will provide targeted support to consumers and small businesses for heat pumps and some limited biomass from April 2022. This is backed by £100 million of Exchequer funding as announced in the 2020 Budget, and will be open for two years.</p><p>The Government expects several large-scale heat pump projects to receive financial support through its other schemes, including the Green Heat Network Scheme, which BEIS will consult on later in the year, and our Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, which is open to large heat pumps providing process heat. Additionally, in the Summer Economic Update, we announced £1 billion funding over the next year to help public sector buildings through the installation of energy efficiency and low carbon heat measures, which will also support the deployment of large scale heat pumps.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 12/10/2020 11:39:35 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1240105

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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 IT System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has suspended (a) archival and (b) destruction of (i) files and (ii) other records on Post Office’s Horizon computer system.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2020 answer text <p>Any relevant information located by BEIS that may be in scope of the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry recently launched will be retained by the Department until, at least, the conclusion of the Inquiry.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 08/10/2020 16:51:29 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1240281

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what deadline the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has set for submissions of Nationally Determined Contributions in advance of COP26.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99026
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>Under the Paris Agreement, all Parties have committed to communicating or updating Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) by 2020 and every five years after that. We are currently working on our NDC, including on the timing for its publication.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 13/10/2020 11:07:32 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1240296

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Private Finance Initiative
	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 live PFI contracts his Department has; and for each of those contracts (a) what service is provided, (b) when the contract became live, (c) what the remaining term of the contract is and (d) what the annual repayments are.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99028
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The Department does not have any Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 13/10/2020 13:19:10 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

1240183

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Hydrogen
	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 Cabinet colleagues on the UK's hydrogen strategy; and what steps he is taking to formalise cross-departmental working on the Government's hydrogen strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffith
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99162
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>We have committed to publish a UK hydrogen strategy in early 2021 and development is well under way.</p><p> </p><p>My Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is Chair of the Climate Action Implementation Cabinet Committee (CAI) which covers issues relating to net zero. BEIS officials and I also continue to work across Government departments, bilaterally and through governance arrangements at official level. This includes the Climate National Strategy Implementation Group, reporting to the Cabinet Secretary involving Directors General across Whitehall, chaired by the DG Energy Transformation &amp; Clean Growth and the Hydrogen Advisory Council, co-chaired by myself as Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, and Sinead Lynch, UK Country Chair of Shell launched in July 2020.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 12/10/2020 11:35:41 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4874 label Biography information for Andrew Griffith

1240294

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Sustainable Innovation Fund
	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 2 October 2020 to Question 95073, how many of those applications that were rejected as a result of the applicant entering an incorrect start date were from the North East.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>One of the twenty-seven applications rejected as a result of the applicant entering an incorrect start date were from the North East.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 13/10/2020 10:10:49 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1240433

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Redundancy
	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 the total number of employees made redundant in each of the last 12 months is based on the HR1 forms that have been received by the Redundancy Payments Service.
	tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
	tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>Employers are required to file an HR1 Form with the Redundancy Payments Service where they are proposing to dismiss 20 or more employees at a single establishment. The Redundancy Payments Service is not notified where less than 20 dismissals may be proposed.</p><p> </p><p>The HR1 Form does not detail actual redundancies made, only the numbers of dismissals proposed. The HR1 data includes proposed dismissals due to the restructuring of a solvent/continuing business and proposed dismissals where the employer is insolvent. A proposal does not necessarily result in all or any redundancies occurring.</p><p> </p><p>The Redundancy Payments Service is responsible for processing redundancy payments where actual redundancies result from the insolvency of an employer or, in a small number of cases, where a solvent employer cannot or will not pay the statutory redundancy. The number of claims received by the Redundancy Payments Service in respect of employees of insolvent employers (including a small number for solvent employers), and total HR1 Forms received from all employers where there are proposals to dismiss 20 or more employees at an establishment, over the last 12 months, are set out in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><em>Number of individuals claiming redundancy payments from the Redundancy Payments Service</em></p></td><td><p><em>Number of HR1 Forms received from all employers</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep 19</p></td><td><p>9,619</p></td><td><p>303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct 19</p></td><td><p>9,265</p></td><td><p>343</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov 19</p></td><td><p>5,874</p></td><td><p>305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec 19</p></td><td><p>5,367</p></td><td><p>196</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan 20</p></td><td><p>7,855</p></td><td><p>372</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb 20</p></td><td><p>7,855</p></td><td><p>329</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar 20</p></td><td><p>14,931</p></td><td><p>485</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr 20</p></td><td><p>8,745</p></td><td><p>447</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 20</p></td><td><p>8,745</p></td><td><p>871</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun 20</p></td><td><p>12,045</p></td><td><p>1,888</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul 20</p></td><td><p>9,551</p></td><td><p>1,784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug 20</p></td><td><p>11,894</p></td><td><p>966</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/10/2020 13:23:52 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

1240309

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Carbon Emissions: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department plans to establish a banking agency to finance green investments as part of the Industrial Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	98953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2020 answer text <p>Within the decade, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister is determined for the UK to be at the forefront of the green industrial revolution as we accelerate our progress towards net zero emissions by 2050. That is why, this year alone, the government has set out billions in support for our low-carbon economy. As set out in the 2019 Green Finance Strategy, this needs to be combined with a focus on mobilising and accelerating flows of private finance into key clean growth sectors to provide good value for taxpayers, such as through providing long-term certainty and using public funds to leverage private capital.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 12/10/2020 11:37:14 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1240366

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Consumer Goods: Counterfeit Manufacturing
	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 discussions he has had with (a) online retailers and (b) online retailing platforms on preventing the sale of counterfeit products.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
	tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99090
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>The Government takes the protection of intellectual property seriously and supports a range of initiatives designed to reduce this illicit trade.</p><p> </p><p>Officials from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) have been holding roundtable meetings with representatives from online platforms and rights holders to discuss the availability of counterfeits on their platforms and to help co-ordinate law enforcement action against sellers.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2013, we launched a dedicated Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), run by the City of London Police. It is dedicated to tackling serious and organised online piracy and counterfeiting (affecting digital and physical goods) and protecting legitimate UK businesses. IPO provided funding of around £9 million over the period 2013-2019.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 13/10/2020 10:14:02 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
	tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1240490

	registered interest
	date	05/10/2020
	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	Bounce Back Loan Scheme: Staffordshire
	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 estimate he has made of the number of loans provided through the Bounce Back Loan scheme to applicants in (a) Stoke-on-Trent, (b) Kidsgrove and (c) Talke.
	tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Gullis
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	99141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2020 answer text <p>A breakdown on the number of loans provided through the Bounce Back Loan scheme as of 7 August is in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Constituency</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Loans offered</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value of Loans offered (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke‐on‐Trent North (which includes Kidsgrove, Talke and part of Stoke-on-Trent)</p></td><td><p>1040</p></td><td><p>30,573,493</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke‐on‐Trent South</p></td><td><p>861</p></td><td><p>26,011,673</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke‐on‐Trent Central</p></td><td><p>1149</p></td><td><p>35,168,237</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/10/2020 13:27:18 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
	tabling member	4814 label Biography information for Jonathan Gullis