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1286914

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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	Remote Working: 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 research his Department has carried out into employer compliance with the work from home requirement during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	154640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>In the most recent data from the ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, covering the period 3-14 February, 48% of working adults stated that they had worked from home because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the last seven days. This figure is up from 46% the week previously.</p><p> </p><p>As detailed in my Rt. Hon. Friend the Prime Minister’s announcement on 22 February and the publication of the COVID-19 response roadmap, the Stay at Home requirement remains in place until 29 March. Until that point it is important that people stay at home wherever possible to minimise the risk of transmission.</p><p> </p><p>People will no longer be legally required to Stay at Home from 29 March although the guidance will set out at that stage that people should continue to work from home where they can. Government will continue to reinforce these messages when engaging with businesses and representative organisations across a range of different sectors.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has developed Safer Working Guidance with employers and trade unions, and employers are encouraged to discuss their COVID-19 risk assessment and mitigation measures with trade unions.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:12:14 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1287048

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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 his Department has made of the potential effect of the covid-19 outbreak on job losses in the wedding industry in which 80 per cent of workers are women.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	155350
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>I meet regularly with the industry-led Weddings Taskforce, established to represent all parts of the UK Weddings sector, to understand the impact of COVID-19 on wedding businesses and jobs in the sector.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:06:06 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1287199

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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 fiscal steps his Department is taking to ensure that (a) wedding venues and (b) wedding suppliers are supported during the third covid-19 national lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Nickie Aiken
uin	155383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>We have provided an unprecedented package of financial support since March 2020 to businesses, including those in the weddings sector. We keep this regularly under review, through discussions with HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:07:34 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4741 label Biography information for Nickie Aiken

1287200

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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 estimate his Department has made of the number of job losses in the wedding industry sector in the event that additional fiscal support from his Department is not made available to that sector in response to the third national covid-19 lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Cities of London and Westminster
tabling member printed	Nickie Aiken
uin	155384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>We have provided an unprecedented package of financial support since March 2020 to businesses, including those in the weddings sector. We keep this regularly under review, through discussions with HM Treasury.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:08:17 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4741 label Biography information for Nickie Aiken

1287315

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that wedding (a) venues and (b) suppliers are supported during the third covid-19 lockdown.
tabling member constituency	Blaenau Gwent
tabling member printed	Nick Smith
uin	154936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>We have provided an unprecedented package of financial support since March 2020 to businesses, including those in the weddings sector. We keep this regularly under review, through discussions with HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:06:57 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	3928 label Biography information for Nick Smith

1287393

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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	Labour Market: Unfair Practices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to publish the Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2020 to 2021.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	155098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>We are working with our colleagues at the Home Office to publish the Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2020-21 in due course. It was important to take the time to work with the former Director of Labour Market Enforcement and the enforcement bodies to ensure that the Strategy is making the right recommendations in the face of the new challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic. The 2020/21 will be published as an agreed Strategy and so we will be taking forward all the recommendations in the final version.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:10:37 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1287395

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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	Conditions of Employment
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 his Department has to improve rights and protections for employees.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	155100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>This Government is committed to making the UK the best place in the world to work. As laid out in our manifesto, we will bring forward measures to establish an employment framework which is fit for purpose and keeps pace with the needs of modern workplaces. These measures will make workplaces fairer by:</p><p> </p><ul><li>providing better support for working families and introducing new support for people facing particularly challenging circumstances.</li><li>encouraging flexible working while ensuring everyone benefits from the flexibility of our labour market.</li><li>protecting the majority of businesses who strive to do the right thing by their workers from being undercut by the small minority who seek to avoid their responsibilities.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:09:41 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1287619

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
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 discussions he has had with representatives of the wedding sector and its supply chain on a timeline for the re-opening of that sector as covid-19 restrictions are eased.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	Brendan Clarke-Smith
uin	155390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2021 answer text <p>I meet regularly with the industry-led Weddings Taskforce, established to represent all parts of the UK Weddings sector including the supply chain, to understand the impact of COVID-19 on wedding businesses and jobs in the sector.</p><p> </p><p>Discussions are continuing on how we can safely reopen the sector when restrictions are eased.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 01/03/2021 17:05:16 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4756 label Biography information for Brendan Clarke-Smith