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731044

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	Her Majesty's Government how many businesses have (1) requested access to, (2) been issued an invitation from, and (3) submitted reports to, the new online service for reporting business payment practices and performance established under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017 No 395.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL52
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>So far, over 150 businesses have requested access and have been issued an invitation to the payment practices reporting online service. Businesses are able to receive an invitation by emailing a request to <a href="mailto:paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk" target="_blank">paymentpracticesreporting@beis.gov.uk</a>. Businesses in scope of the requirement must publish payment practices and performance information for their financial year starting on or after 6 April 2017. As of June 2017, no reports have been published, as businesses will start mandatory reporting from October 2017, depending on their financial year dates.</p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 28/06/2017 11:11:47 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

731191

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Arts: Electronic Commerce
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 ensure content creators are paid for the content they make available online.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring content creators are appropriately rewarded for the content they make available online while also ensuring that we continue to encourage investment in new content and innovative services. The Government is currently engaging with these issues as part of the EU Digital Single Market initiative, where we are negotiating a package of measures which seek to support fairness in the online value chain. The Government will continue to ensure there is a robust system for protection of intellectual property when the UK has left the EU, with strong protections against infringement.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/06/2017 12:54:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

731537

registered interest
date	21/06/2017
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	Arts: Income
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 he has made of the trends in income from artists resale rights.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government has made no such assessment. Like other licensing schemes run in the UK, the collection of artist’s resale right is managed by collective management organisations on behalf of artists. These organisations, which include DACS and the Artist’s Collecting Society, are mandated by artists to collect on their behalf, and are responsible for publishing information on artist income generated from the resale right.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/06/2017 12:35:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

732519

registered interest
date	26/06/2017
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	Beer: Small Businesses
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 information his Department holds on the number of microbreweries in the UK in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	1143
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>While we do not hold information on the number of microbreweries (which are typically identified by the limited amount of beer they produce), data is collected on the number of manufacturers of beer split by employee size-band. As displayed in the table below the number of breweries has increased by over 120%, with the vast majority of this increase being among those enterprises with less than 10 employees.</p><p><strong>Number of Beer Manufacturing Enterprises </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>0 to 9 employees</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>435</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>635</p></td><td><p>545</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>735</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>885</p></td><td><p>780</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>995</p></td><td><p>875</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>1,135</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: UK Business- Activity Size and Location (ONS)</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2017 12:56:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

732284

registered interest
date	23/06/2017
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	Borough Market: Terrorism
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 meet Borough Market traders to discuss their business needs in the aftermath of the recent terror attack which forced those businesses to close temporarily.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	1002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>It is important that local traders are adequately supported in the aftermath of this tragic event. I will be happy to meet with Borough Market traders whose businesses have been forced to close temporarily in order to discuss their business needs going forward.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2017 14:17:09 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

731769

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	British Business Bank
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 much finance the British Business Bank has provided since its creation in (a) the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The British Business Bank (BBB) is a government-owned economic development bank. It manages the UK Government’s access to finance programmes for smaller businesses within a single commercially-minded institution. The Bank received State aid clearance to start operating in November 2014. Since this date, BBB has facilitated the following finance:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>UK</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Linlithgow and East Falkirk*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Finance facilitated</p></td><td><p>£9.5bn</p></td><td><p>Over £323m</p></td><td><p>Almost £1m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* ENABLE data is not available at constituency level</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2017 14:10:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731888

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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: Regulation
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 it is his policy to continue with the Red Tape Challenge; and if he will provide an update of its work to date.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Red Tape Challenge programme ran until 2015 and identified over 3,000 regulations to improve and reform. We are currently considering how best to continue to deliver our commitment to regulate more efficiently and effectively over the course of this parliament.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/06/2017 12:55:27 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 343 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

731795

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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 Capture and Storage
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 plans he has for carbon capture and storage.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government’s view is that carbon capture and storage (CCS) has a potential role in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy, but its costs must come down.</p><p>We will set out our plans for CCS in due course, taking into account the findings and recommendations made in the report ‘Lowest Cost Decarbonisation for the UK: the critical role of carbon capture and storage’, published by the Lord Oxburgh-led Parliamentary Advisory Group on CCS.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/06/2017 12:36:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731765

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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: Expenditure
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 proportion of household expenditure was spent on energy bills in (a) the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>The average expenditure on household energy bills as a proportion of total expenditure in the UK for each year since 2010 is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Proportion of total expenditure spent on domestic energy bills</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>4.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>4.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>5.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>4.4%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: ONS’s living costs and food survey (table A6). </em></p><p>The proportion of household expenditure spent on energy bills is only available for each year at the UK level and is not available by constituency or region. However, a three year average is available for Scotland. The three year average for the UK has also been provided for comparison. The proportion of total expenditure spent on energy bills in Scotland for 2013/14 – 2015/16 is 5.4 per cent. For the UK, this figure is 4.8 per cent. Data is sourced from ONS which can be found in table A35:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/detailedhouseholdexpenditurebycountriesandregionsuktablea35" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/datasets/detailedhouseholdexpenditurebycountriesandregionsuktablea35</a></p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/06/2017 12:34:46 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

731763

registered interest
date	22/06/2017
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	Fuel Poverty
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 households are classed as fuel poor in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>Fuel poverty is a devolved issue. Each nation in the UK has its own fuel poverty definition, targets and policies to tackle the issue. As each country uses different measures and heating assumptions, an overall UK figure is not available.</p><p>The latest fuel poverty statistics for Scotland can be found at: <a href="http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/12/1539" target="_blank">http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/12/1539</a>.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 28/06/2017 12:35:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day