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1240281

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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
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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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