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1055021

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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: Forms
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 (a) RP02a and (b) RP07 forms Companies House has received in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	David Hanson
uin	216950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The table below shows how many (a) RP02A and (b) how many RP07 forms were received in each of the last five years for which figures are available.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>RP02 Received</p></td><td><p>RP07 Received</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,499</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>4,791</p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,189</p></td><td><p>2,969</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,981</p></td><td><p>6,804</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,591</p></td><td><p>8,070</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Figures for RP02 include both RP02a and RP02b, as historical statistics are not broken down. However, RP02b forms are estimated to be less than 10% of total number of RP02 forms received.</p><p> </p><p>Figures for RP07 began in April 2016, which is when the relevant legislation was implemented.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/02/2019 16:41:19 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

1055066

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Business: Billing
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 a response to its consultation entitled Creating a responsible payment culture: a call for evidence on tackling late payment.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	217036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2019 answer text <p>The call for evidence on tackling late payment closed on 29 November 2018 and we received nearly 300 responses. We are currently analysing those responses and intend to publish a response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 11/02/2019 17:19:35 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst previous answer version 100730 answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1055108

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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 steps he is taking to ensure the growth of wind power is responsibly managed and taxpayer funded constraint payments to that sector are reduced.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Christine Jardine
uin	217048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2019 answer text <p>The taxpayer does not fund constraint payments. These payments are made by National Grid Electricity System Operator through competitive market arrangements as part of ensuring the secure and efficient operation of the electricity system. These arrangements predate the connection of wind farms to the transmission network by many years, and payments are made to various types of generation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 08/02/2019 12:17:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4634 label Biography information for Christine Jardine

1055140

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Electrical Goods: Import Controls
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 effectiveness of the detention of (a) unsafe and (b) non-compliant electrical consumer goods at ports and borders in Scotland; and whether he has plans to allocate additional funding for those activities.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	217054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards will publish its first Strategic Assessment covering trends in relation to the safety of goods in due course and this will inform future decisions about how best to support capacity on the front line, including in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:57:30 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1055143

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Electrical Goods: Imports
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 volume of (a) unsafe and (b) non-compliant electrical consumer goods entering Scotland at its ports and borders.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	217055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) is developing the first national Strategic Assessment to identify trends and risks associated with the supply and use of consumer goods. This will provide a comprehensive analysis of how well the product safety system functions and will support local authorities and other agencies to prioritise their operational decisions and interventions based on evidence and risk. In addition, the OPSS is working to support local authorities in Scotland to further improve product safety.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:57:36 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1055146

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Borders: Scotland
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 is made available by the Office for Product Safety and Standards to the Scottish Government to improve safety at ports and borders in scotland.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	217056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for Product Safety and Standards is working to support local authorities in Scotland including at ports and borders, to further improve product safety. For example, OPSS has provided free technical training on product safety to local authority officers, provided all front-line officers with free access to British Standards on line and training on risk assessment will take place in March. We are exploring what additional support and resource would assist with safety at ports and borders.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:57:43 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1055153

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Electrical Goods: Sales
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 on the cost to the Scottish economy of the sale of (a) counterfeit and (b) substandard electrical products.
tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
uin	217058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government does not hold data for estimating the cost to the Scottish economy of counterfeit or substandard electrical products.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 14/02/2019 17:57:48 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1055216

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Fossil Fuels: North West
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 present stage is of Petroleum Oil and Gas Licence 193 within his Department's regulatory roadmap for onshore oil and gas exploration.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	217080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) are responsible for granting and monitoring all onshore Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs). For PEDL193, the OGA last year agreed to a Retention Area Work Plan under which the licensee(s) are obliged to acquire new seismic data by 30 June 2020, submit a planning application to drill a well by 30 June 2022, and drill, hydraulically fracture and flow test a well by 30 June 2024. Details of this licence variation can be found on the OGA website via the following link: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogauthority.co.uk%2Fmedia%2F5260%2Fretention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CStuart.Walters%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4e90c49877f4f45ee0708d68c631cd1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636850754646824445&amp;sdata=M9mcNXUXTc8v5YYNKpM11T1fDUQViOh18XbIkBFQacc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/5260/retention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/02/2019 16:32:45 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1055217

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Fossil Fuels: Licensing
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 present stage is of all the Petroleum Oil and Gas Licence areas within his Department's regulatory roadmap for onshore oil and gas exploration.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	217081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2019 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) are responsible for granting and monitoring all onshore Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs). Information regarding PEDL data is publicly available and can be found on the OGA’s site via <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogauthority.co.uk%2Fdata-centre%2Fdata-downloads-and-publications%2Flicence-data%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CStuart.Walters%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4e90c49877f4f45ee0708d68c631cd1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636850754646834449&amp;sdata=WhvBMtK3yvyPIcclcZZBaZgnmWmwHxEBvXPWT5U7weo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/data-centre/data-downloads-and-publications/licence-data/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to this information, the OGA agreed last year to a number of Retention Area Work Plans - these licence variations can be found on the OGA website via the following link: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogauthority.co.uk%2Fmedia%2F5260%2Fretention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CStuart.Walters%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4e90c49877f4f45ee0708d68c631cd1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636850754646834449&amp;sdata=MQPQgx%2BI%2B77ZS30M%2BkGS1G87obZOmBFAn00K7wLlfwY%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/5260/retention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 12/02/2019 16:32:54 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

1055225

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
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	Fossil Fuels: North West
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 a decision has been made by the Oil and Gas Authority in relation to Petroleum Oil and Gas Licence (PEDL) 193 to move that PEDL into the Production Term on 1 July 2019.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	217084
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2019 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) are responsible for granting and monitoring all onshore Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs). For PEDL193, the OGA last year agreed to a Retention Area Work Plan under which the licensee(s) are obliged to acquire new seismic data by 30 June 2020, submit a planning application to drill a well by 30 June 2022, and drill, hydraulically fracture and flow test a well by 30 June 2024. Details of this licence variation can be found on the OGA website via the following link: <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ogauthority.co.uk%2Fmedia%2F5260%2Fretention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf&amp;data=02%7C01%7CStuart.Walters%40beis.gov.uk%7Cb4e90c49877f4f45ee0708d68c631cd1%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C636850754646824445&amp;sdata=M9mcNXUXTc8v5YYNKpM11T1fDUQViOh18XbIkBFQacc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ogauthority.co.uk/media/5260/retention-areas-agreed-december-2018-updated.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 13/02/2019 17:32:24 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey