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1309373

registered interest
date	15/04/2021
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	BT Group: Reorganisation
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 encourage BT to resume talks with its employees on the company's restructuring plans to protect the livelihoods of key workers.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	181376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government encourages all employers and employees to engage in dialogue. Where there is a dispute between an employer and a trade union, the Government considers that the resolution of the dispute is a matter for the parties involved. ACAS stands ready to assist the parties to resolve their dispute, should they wish it.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/04/2021 13:44:00 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1309374

registered interest
date	15/04/2021
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	Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, in circumstances where the Valuation Office Agency has made an error in valuation classifications for business rates purposes, whether local authorities should (a) treat affected business applicants as if such errors had been rectified at the time a covid-19 related grant was due to be issued and (b) be compensated for the additional cost of those applications.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Ms Lyn Brown
uin	181214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>As the question does not specify which grant scheme it relates to, I am responding under the assumption that it refers to Restart Grants which are the current primary business grant mechanism managed by local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>Any changes to the rating list (rateable value or to the hereditament) after 1 April 2021 should be ignored for the purposes of eligibility. Local Authorities are not required to adjust, pay or recover grants where the rating list is subsequently amended retrospectively to 1 April 2021. In cases where it was factually clear to the Local Authority on 1 April 2021 that the rating list was inaccurate on that date, Local Authorities may withhold the grant and/or award the grant based on their view of who would have been entitled to the grant had the list been accurate. This is entirely at the discretion of the Local Authority and only intended to prevent manifest errors.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/04/2021 13:41:21 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1309527

registered interest
date	15/04/2021
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	Vaccination: 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 the Department is taking to support British domestic capacity to produce future vaccines.
tabling member constituency	Morley and Outwood
tabling member printed	Andrea Jenkyns
uin	181349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>The Government has invested over £300 million to secure and scale-up the UK’s manufacturing capabilities to be able to respond to this pandemic, as well as any future pandemics. This includes:</p><p>a) Facilities that have come online:</p><ul><li>£65.5 million for the early manufacture of the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine;</li><li>£8.75 million for the set-up of the rapid deployment facility at Oxford Biomedica in Oxfordshire;</li><li>£8.6 million to the Centre of Process Innovation to develop GMP-ready mRNA manufacturing capability;</li><li>£4.7 million for skills training through the Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network, which will be delivered through both virtual and physical centres; and</li><li>Funding for fill and finish through a contract with Wockhardt in Wrexham, North Wales, which is currently providing fill and finish capabilities to the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.</li></ul><p>b) Facilities that will come online later this year, to help provide longer-term UK capacity:</p><ul><li>£140.6 million to accelerate the completion and expanded role of the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Oxfordshire;</li><li>£127 million for the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult in Braintree, Essex; and</li><li>Funding for the expansion of the Valneva factory in Livingston, Scotland.</li></ul> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 23/04/2021 13:42:47 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4490 label Biography information for Dame Andrea Jenkyns

1308934

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
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	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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Government's support for the wedding industry sector adversely affected by the cancellation of wedding receptions and religious ceremonies as a result of covid-19 restrictions on the number of people attending those receptions and ceremonies.
tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
tabling member printed	Bambos Charalambous
uin	181086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>I meet regularly with the industry-led Weddings Taskforce, established to represent a wide range of interests in the weddings sector in England, to understand the impact of the pandemic on jobs and businesses.</p><p>Over the course of the pandemic the Government has provided an unprecedented package of financial support to business, including those in the wedding industry, which we keep under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/04/2021 13:45:10 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4610 label Biography information for Bambos Charalambous

1309108

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
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	Unite: Annual Reports
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 10 March 2021, what reasons the Certification Officer has provided for the length of time taken between receiving the 2019 annual return for Unite on 18 December 2020 and publishing that return in March 2021.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	180920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p><em> </em></p><p>The Certification Officer published the Unite annual return as soon as it was feasible to do so. There is no statutory requirement for the Certification Officer to publish annual returns within a particular period.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 23/04/2021 13:38:14 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1309111

registered interest
date	14/04/2021
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	Wind Power: Seas and Oceans
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 his Department is providing to the development of port infrastructure for offshore wind energy.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	181061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2021 answer text <p>In October 2020, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced £160m of support for offshore wind coastal manufacturing infrastructure across the whole of the UK, and committing to deploying 40 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2021, the Department announced up to £95 million of government investment for two new offshore wind port hubs, to be constructed on Humberside and Teesside. The support for the Teesworks Offshore Manufacturing Centre and the Able Marine Energy Park will help to level up the UK economy, bring in new investment, create high-skilled jobs, and provide new opportunities in ports and the areas around them.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, in the Budget 2021 my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the Government would provide £27 million, subject to business case, for the Aberdeen Energy Transition Zone, helping to support North East Scotland to play a leading role in meeting the UK’s net zero ambitions.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, GE Renewable Energy announced an investment in a major new offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing plant, the first investment at the Teesworks Offshore Manufacturing Centre. This brand-new manufacturing facility could create 750 direct renewable energy jobs and close to 1,500 indirect jobs in the area.</p> answering member constituency Berwick-upon-Tweed answering member printed Anne-Marie Trevelyan question first answered 23/04/2021 13:37:06 answering member 4531 label Biography information for Anne-Marie Trevelyan
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown