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1049573

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Hydroelectric Power: Feed-in Tariffs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to continue the Feed-in Tariff scheme for hydroelectricity systems.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL13160
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government confirmed on 18 December 2018 the closure of the Feed-In Tariffs scheme to all new applications after 31 March 2019 subject to a number of time-limited extensions and a grace period. We are now consulting on a Smart Export Guarantee to follow on from the FIT scheme, to ensure that small-scale low-carbon generators, including hydroelectricity, do not export their electricity to the grid for free.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 05/02/2019 16:19:09 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1049574

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Hydroelectric Power: Feed-in Tariffs
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to retaining Feed-in Tariffs for small community-run hydroelectricity schemes.
tabling member printed	Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
uin	HL13161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government confirmed on 18 December 2018 the closure of the Feed-In Tariffs scheme to all new applications after 31 March 2019 subject to a number of time-limited extensions and a grace period. The Government is considering its future approach and what measures might be taken to support the efforts of community organisations and education providers who want to invest in low-carbon energy installations as part of its consultation on a Smart Export Guarantee which was published on 8 January. The consultation is open until 5 March and can be assessed on GOV.UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/02/2019 12:33:29 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	579 label Biography information for Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

1049592

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of small and medium-sized companies preparations for Brexit, including if no deal is agreed.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL13177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2019 answer text <p>Through the Government’s public information campaign, we are ensuring the latest advice and information on all aspects of leaving the EU reaches businesses through channels such as press releases, radio and social media. Businesses are directed to the ‘Prepare your business for EU Exit’ government website.</p><p> </p><p>We are also ensuring that business representative organisations, including trade associations and professional bodies can support businesses by sharing information and advice with their members.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to listen to businesses up and down the country through our regular engagements.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Henley question first answered 06/02/2019 15:51:25 answering member 2616 label Biography information for Lord Henley
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

1050035

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Employment: Ethnic Groups
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 report of 18 January 2018 by the Centre for Social Investigation entitled Are employers in Britain discriminating against ethnic minorities.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	213155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Centre for Social Investigation’s findings on potential discrimination at the written application stage of recruitment are concerning. The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against employees and people seeking work because of their race.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s Ethnicity Facts and Figures website and Business in the Community’s 2018 Race at Work Survey highlight that people from ethnic minorities still encounter disparities in recruitment and progression. In October 2018 the Prime Minister announced a package of measures to make the workplace fairer for people from ethnic minorities, including a Race at Work Charter and a consultation on mandatory ethnicity pay reporting. The consultation closed on 11 January 2019.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 05/02/2019 12:10:27 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

1050053

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	BMW: Oxford
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 his Department has held with BMW on the future of production at its Oxford plant in the event that the UK leaves the EU; and whether those discussions included the possibility of moving production away from the UK.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	213457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>BMW is a hugely important company for the UK, and Government recognises that with 4,000 staff in their Oxford plant alone it is vital to both the national and local economy. BEIS Ministers and officials regularly meet with the company. My rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State and Peter Schwarzenbauer, BMW Board Member with responsibility for the UK, last met on 28 November.</p><p>The Government is determined to ensure that the UK continues to be one of the most competitive locations in the world for automotive and other advanced manufacturing.</p><p>We are in close and continuous dialogue with BMW to understand and support them in their planning.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 31/01/2019 16:06:16 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1050088

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Companies House: Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many prosecutions Companies House has brought in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	213394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of prosecutions Companies House has brought in each year since 2010 is publicly available information. Information for prosecutions brought from 2010/11 to 2014/15 can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-register-activities-statistical-release-20142015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/companies-register-activities-statistical-release-20142015</a>.</p><p>The hon. Member should select the MS Excel version of the table and the data is in table D2</p><p><br>Information for prosecutions brought from 2012/13 to 2017/18 can be found at</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/companies-house-management-information-tables-2017-18" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/companies-house-management-information-tables-2017-18</a>.</p><p>The data is in Table 5 of the table.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 31/01/2019 16:05:56 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1050090

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Companies House: Company Investigations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many companies have been struck off the companies register as a result of action by Companies House in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	213395
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of companies struck off the company register as a result of action by Companies House in each year since 2010 is as follows.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Companies</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>178,419</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>127,758</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>128,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>139,015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>161,740</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>172,989</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>202,299</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>212,347</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 31/01/2019 16:06:04 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

1050151

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Wind Power
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 his Department's policy is on the development of large-scale onshore wind projects in England; and whether that policy applies to (a) Wales and (b) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	213162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not believe that new large-scale onshore wind power is right for England, and planning policy ensures new projects can only go ahead with the full backing of local communities. Planning policy for onshore wind in Scotland and Wales is a matter for the Devolved Administrations.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently made changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme to allow Remote island Wind projects to compete for support in future Pot 2 CfD allocation rounds, in keeping with our manifesto commitment.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/02/2019 12:10:36 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1050152

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Wind Power
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 oral contribution of the Minister for Energy and Clean Growth of 08 January 2019, Official Report, column 153 and with reference to the Minister's oral contribution to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee on 28 November 2017, whether his Department will support onshore wind in those areas of the UK that want to deploy it.
tabling member constituency	Swansea West
tabling member printed	Geraint Davies
uin	213163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not believe that new large-scale onshore wind power is right for England, and planning policy ensures new projects can only go ahead with the full backing of local communities. Planning policy for onshore wind in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a matter for the Devolved Administrations. The Government has recently made changes to the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme to allow Remote Island Wind projects to compete for support in future CfD rounds, in keeping with our manifesto commitment.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/02/2019 12:10:55 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	155 label Biography information for Geraint Davies

1050174

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	UK Seabed Resources: Pacific Ocean
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 will he place in the Library copies of the (a) domestic licence granted by the Government and (b) exploration contract granted by the International Seabed Authority to UK Seabed Resources Ltd for (i) the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone I and (ii) the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone II.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	213318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>The International Seabed Authority is considering how it can make the exploration contracts for the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone publicly available, but in doing so it will have to protect the commercially and competitively sensitive information. In the meantime the UK Government will review whether it would be possible to publish the domestic licences.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 05/02/2019 12:11:09 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas