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Tuesday 12th March 2024 9:45 a.m. Business and Trade Committee - Oral evidence Subject: Industrial policy At 10:00am: Oral evidence Dr Anna Valero - Policy Fellow at Centre for Economic Performance, LSE Raoul Ruparel - Director at Boston Consulting Group Centre for Growth Dr Mann Virdee - Senior Research Fellow at Council on Geostrategy At 11:00am: Oral evidence Dr George Dibb - Associate Director & Head of Centre for Economic Justice at Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Paul Swinney - Director of Research at Centre for Cities Giles Wilkes - Senior Fellow at Institute for Government Sir Geoffrey Owen - Head of Industrial Policy at Policy Exchange View calendar |
Tuesday 19th March 2024 9:45 a.m. Business and Trade Committee - Private Meeting View calendar |
Petitions |
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Change Statutory Maternity Pay to a percentage of weekly earnings with no cap Petition Open - 77 SignaturesSign this petition 14 Sep 2024 closes in 5 months, 2 weeks I would like Government to increase statutory maternity pay. I think people should receive a percentage of their weekly earnings for a period of 6 months, with no cap. After that period, I think people should receive the standard statutory maternity pay. |
Parliamentary Debates |
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Post Office Legislation
13 speeches (5,411 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: None I can announce today that the Department for Business and Trade, rather than the Post Office, will be - Link to Speech 2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) However, I ask whether the Department for Business and Trade is truly independent of the process, not - Link to Speech 3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, asked about the accounts of the Department for Business and Trade and - Link to Speech |
Business of the House
99 speeches (12,069 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Leader of the House Mentions: 1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will certainly ensure that the Department for Business and Trade, which has oversight of this matter - Link to Speech 2: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) scandal Bill, we have not acted fast enough, and now we are not acting with enough clarity, because the Department - Link to Speech |
India: Democratic Freedoms
19 speeches (1,569 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Will the Minister reassure me that officials from the Department for Business and Trade who are negotiating - Link to Speech |
Turkey Trade Negotiations
1 speech (544 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Written Statements Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) On Thursday 14 March 2024, the Department for Business and Trade launched negotiations for a new, upgraded - Link to Speech |
Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
7 speeches (2,221 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - General Committees Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Mentions: 1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) We have also enabled the Department for Business and Trade to set up its enforcement arm, the Office - Link to Speech |
Oral Answers to Questions
162 speeches (10,788 words) Thursday 14th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Mentions: 1: Victoria Prentis (Con - Banbury) through some of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s decision-making process to inform the Department - Link to Speech |
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
110 speeches (25,012 words) Report stage Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Baroness Hayman (XB - Life peer) The Department for Business and Trade is engaged in relation to post-Brexit product safety standards. - Link to Speech |
Post Office Legislation
36 speeches (6,898 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) I can announce today that the Department for Business and Trade, rather than the Post Office, will be - Link to Speech |
Post Office Redress
1 speech (261 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Written Statements HM Treasury Mentions: 1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) This is to be followed by swift financial redress delivered by the Department for Business and Trade.The - Link to Speech |
Oral Answers to Questions
131 speeches (9,552 words) Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Commons Chamber Wales Office Mentions: 1: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Department for Business and Trade will be responsible for the new redress scheme, and we are widening - Link to Speech |
Carers: National Strategy
22 speeches (1,586 words) Tuesday 12th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) Ministerial colleagues and senior leaders from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for - Link to Speech 2: Lord Evans of Rainow (Con - Life peer) The Department for Business and Trade is bringing in a new leave entitlement of one week, available to - Link to Speech |
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill
121 speeches (23,637 words) Report stage Monday 11th March 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Business and Trade Mentions: 1: None Both Secretaries of State who are currently involved in this legislation, for DSIT and the Department - Link to Speech |
Select Committee Documents |
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Friday 15th March 2024
Report - Twenty-First Report - Levelling up funding to local government Public Accounts Committee Found: Monitoring and responding to companies in distress HC 425 Session 2022–23 Number Title Reference 1st Department |
Thursday 14th March 2024
Written Evidence - Institute of Employment Rights HRW0029 - Human Rights at Work Human Rights at Work - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: And in R (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) v SoS for BEIS [2021] EWCA Civ 260 Bean LJ at |
Thursday 14th March 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes of Joint Committee on Human Rights Session 22 - 23 Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: e reported to the House for publication: Correspondence to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy |
Thursday 14th March 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP regarding slides used during evidence session, dated 13 March 2024 European Scrutiny Committee Found: MP 13 March 2024 Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP Secretary of State for Business and Trade , Department |
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Estimate memoranda - Wales Office Supplementary Estimate Memorandum 2023–24 Welsh Affairs Committee Found: DEL Budget Transfers • +£0.169 m - Budget transfer ( increase in administration costs) from the Department |
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Chair to Lord Johnson on trade negotiations International Agreements Committee Found: Lord Johnson of Lainston CBE Minister for Investment and Minister for Regulatory Reform Department |
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Report - Twentieth Report - Monitoring and responding to companies in distress Public Accounts Committee Found: for Business and Trade, the Cabinet Office, and UK Government Investments (UKGI). 1 2. |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Written Evidence - UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), and DR JOSH RYAN-COLLINS SND0043 - How sustainable is our national debt? How sustainable is our national debt? - Economic Affairs Committee Found: BEIS Research Paper Number 2020/044. |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Estimate memoranda - HM Treasury 2023-24 Supplementary Estimate memorandum Treasury Committee Found: , UKGI brings together the functions of the Shareholder Executive (ShEx was formerly part o f the Department |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Science and Technology Committee (Lords) Found: We work very closely with the Department for Business and Trade as well on this agenda, and a lot |
Monday 11th March 2024
Correspondence - Letter from Nusrat Ghani MP (Department for Business and Trade Minister) to Lord Jay of Ewelme re: Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Article 2, 24 November 2023 Windsor Framework Sub-Committee Found: Letter from Nusrat Ghani MP (Department for Business and Trade Minister) to Lord Jay of Ewelme re: Retained |
Friday 8th March 2024
Formal Minutes - Work and Pensions Committee - Formal Minutes 2023-24 - as at 7 February 2024 Work and Pensions Committee Found: SVC0076) Statutory Sick Pay Centre for Progressive Change (SVC0035) Correspo ndence from the Department |
Friday 8th March 2024
Special Report - Third Special Report - A rock and a hard place: building critical mineral resilience: Government Response to the Committee’s First Report Foreign Affairs Committee Found: Parallel work within the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), including the Advanced Manufacturing |
Friday 8th March 2024
Report - Sixth Report - Sexism in the City Treasury Committee Found: Silence told us that “77% of workers that encounter sexual 151 Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 152 Department |
Friday 8th March 2024
Report - Nineteenth Report - MoD Equipment Plan 2023–2033 Public Accounts Committee Found: functional savings HC 423 18th Excess Votes 2022–23 HC 589 Session 2022–23 Number Title Reference 1st Department |
Thursday 7th March 2024
Written Evidence - University College London (UCL) HRW0077 - Human Rights at Work Human Rights at Work - Human Rights (Joint Committee) Found: ibid [8]. 8 ibid [57]. 9 See Puthenveettil v Alexander & George & Secretary of State for Business, Energy |
Thursday 7th March 2024
Formal Minutes - Formal Minutes 2023-24 Public Accounts Committee Found: for Business and Trade, dated 24 October 2023 Preparedness for online safety regulation Correspondence |
Thursday 7th March 2024
Estimate memoranda - Supplementary Estimates Memoranda 2023-24 - The Statistics Board Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Found: , Housing and Communities (DLUHC) for the Refugee Integration Outcomes project 1,225,000 BCT with Department |
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Department for Business and Trade: Overseas Companies
Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which overseas companies registered in the UK per industry have received funding from her Department in each year since 2015. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) This information is not held centrally. To provide an accurate breakdown of funding would incur a disproportionate cost. In its capacity as the UK’s export credit agency, any support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF) to exporters takes the form of loans, guarantees or insurance provided at commercial rates. UKEF does not provide direct funding to, or make equity investments in, the businesses that it supports.’ A summary of the support provided by UKEF for each financial year is provided in the annual report and accounts, which are available online at: UK Export Finance annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). |
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Department for Business and Trade: Energy
Asked by: Kenny MacAskill (Alba Party - East Lothian) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much her Department invested in UK-based energy businesses in each year since 2015. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The Department for Business and Trade does not directly invest in businesses of any kind but does support companies or projects seeking financial investment from third parties. In its capacity as the UK’s export credit agency, any support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF) to exporters takes the form of loans, guarantees or insurance provided at commercial rates. UKEF does not provide direct funding to, or make equity investments in, the businesses that it supports. A summary of the support provided by UKEF for each financial year is provided in the annual report and accounts, which are available online at: UK Export Finance annual reports and accounts - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). |
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Trading Standards
Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to publish league tables on the performance of activities of local trading standards bodies. Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) Trading Standards provide a range of services that fall under the remit of a number of Departments. However, Trading Standards services are delivered by Local Authorities, who are responsible for their operation and effectiveness. As Local Government is independent of Central Government, the Department for Business does not therefore have a remit to assess the performance of Trading Standards and would not therefore produce or publish league tables of such bodies. |
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Trading Standards
Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make it her policy to assess the performance of local authority trading standards bodies. Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) Trading Standards provide a range of services that fall under the remit of a number of Departments. However, Trading Standards services are delivered by Local Authorities, who are responsible for their operation and effectiveness. As Local Government is independent of Central Government, the Department for Business does not therefore have a remit to assess the performance of Trading Standards and would not therefore produce or publish league tables of such bodies. |
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Trading Standards: Barnet
Asked by: Theresa Villiers (Conservative - Chipping Barnet) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of Barnet trading standards. Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) Trading Standards provide a range of services that fall under the remit of a number of Departments. However, Trading Standards services are delivered by Local Authorities, who are responsible for their operation and effectiveness. As Local Government is independent of Central Government, the Department for Business does not therefore have a remit to assess the performance of Trading Standards and would not therefore produce or publish league tables of such bodies. |
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Domestic Visits: Bournemouth
Asked by: Tobias Ellwood (Conservative - Bournemouth East) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) she and (b) other Ministers in her Department plan to visit Bournemouth in the next six months. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The ministerial team within the Department for Business and Trade do not have any visits currently scheduled to visit Bournemouth in the next 6 months. We are still planning a forward look for this period of time, however, so this is subject to change. |
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Chambers of Commerce: Finance
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department allocated to the (a) Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce, (b) British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, (c) British Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, (d) UK-India Business Council, (e) Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and (f) British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa in each of the last 10 years. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The Department for Business and Trade and the former Department for International Trade have not provided any funding to the Chambers of Commerce requested except for the UK-India Business Council. The funding provided to it is as follows:
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Department for Business and Trade: Domestic Visits
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, to which domestic destinations Ministers in her Department and its predecessor Departments have attended overnight visits in each of the last three financial years. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The regions visited with an overnight stay over the last 3 financial years are as follows:
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Export Controls: Sanctions
Asked by: Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the Export Control Joint Unit reviews urgent trade sanctions license applications in a timely manner. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) In making decisions on whether to grant a licence to permit something otherwise prohibited by sanctions legislation & regulations, the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), comprised of subject matter experts and officials in the Department for Business and Trade, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Ministry of Defence, acts on behalf of the Secretary of State. ECJU is obligated to consider applications on a case-by-case basis, determining whether granting a licence would be consistent with the stated purposes of the sanctions regime, licensing grounds, and United Nations or international law obligations. When assessing applications ECJU also consults and considers views from a range of other government departments. |
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Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
Asked by: Charlotte Nichols (Labour - Warrington North) Thursday 14th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Second Report of the Business and Trade Committee of Session 2023-24 on UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, HC483, published on 19 February 2024, whether a debate will be held on a substantive motion on the UK’s accession to that Partnership before the period the treaty is laid before Parliament under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 concludes on 22 March 2024. Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) The Government is committed to effective scrutiny of its trade agenda and has put in place a comprehensive framework for scrutiny of free trade agreements (FTAs). This includes a commitment to seek to hold a general debate on a new FTA where one is requested by the relevant Select Committee in a timely manner, subject to parliamentary time. The Government's view is that a general debate is the appropriate mechanism for Parliament to debate a new FTA.
The scheduling of parliamentary business is not a matter for the Department for Business and Trade, but the Government is aware of the Business and Trade Committee’s request for a debate. |
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Department for Business and Trade: Equality
Asked by: Neil O'Brien (Conservative - Harborough) Wednesday 13th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in their Department have job titles that include the words (a) equality, (b) diversity, (c) inclusion, (d) gender, (e) LGBT and (f) race. Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) Nine DBT staff members have the words equality and/or gender in their job titles. These roles are all externally facing roles, responsible for negotiating provisions and chapters within bilateral and multilateral contexts. There are no DBT staff members with diversity; inclusion; LGBT; or race in their job title.
The Government is auditing the cost-effectiveness of all activities that support the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) of the workforce, through the review of EDI spending announced last June. As stated in the Autumn Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister for Cabinet Office will be outlining the final proposals in response to the review in due course. |
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Iron and Steel: Safeguard Measures
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer) Wednesday 13th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government when they will respond to the Trade Remedies Authority's interim findings of its review of the UK's steel safeguard measure, published 21 February, in particular its proposal for extending the safeguard for a further two years; and what steps they are taking to ensure that the UK steel industry remains protected from import surges in line with the Trade Remedies Authority recommendations. Answered by Lord Johnson of Lainston - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) The Trade Remedies Authority has published its preliminary findings of their extension review of the steel safeguard measure. Their review remains ongoing, and the Department for Business and Trade cannot comment further nor prejudice their final recommendation. |
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Iron and Steel: Safeguard Measures
Asked by: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Labour - Life peer) Wednesday 13th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Trade Remedies Authority's interim finding from its review of the UK's steel safeguard measure, published 21 February, that serious injury would recur to UK producers across all 15 categories of steel if the safeguard measure were to be removed; and how this assessment will influence their response to the Trade Remedies Authority's recommendation that the safeguard measure should be extended. Answered by Lord Johnson of Lainston - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) The Trade Remedies Authority has published its preliminary findings of their extension review of the steel safeguard measure. Their review remains ongoing, and the Department for Business and Trade cannot comment further nor prejudice their final recommendation. |
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Stonewall: Finance
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings) Wednesday 13th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has provided (a) grants and (b) funding to Stonewall in the last five years. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) was established in February 2023 and has not provided any grants or funding to Stonewall since it was formed. For the period prior to the formation of DBT, the question is assumed to refer to the former Department for International Trade. The Department for International Trade made a payment to Stonewall of £2,500 + VAT in financial years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. These payments were for membership fees as part of Stonewall's Diversity Champions programme. The Department withdrew from the programme in 2021. |
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Israel: Arms Trade
Asked by: Claudia Webbe (Independent - Leicester East) Tuesday 12th March 2024 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many arms licences have been issued to Israel since (a) 7 October 2023 and (b) the International Court of Justice's order relating to the case of the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v Israel), published on 26 January 2024. Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development) The Department for Business and Trade will publish licensing statistics, including for Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in line with its usual process. |
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Overseas Trade: Sudan
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough) Tuesday 12th March 2024 Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office: To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the impact of the conflict in Sudan on UK trade and investment in that region; and what support he is providing to British businesses potentially affected by that conflict. Answered by Andrew Mitchell - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development) Neither the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office nor Department for Business and Trade hold data centrally on the impact of the conflict on UK trade with and investment in Sudan. Trade between the UK and Sudan has been limited because of historic and continued sanctions against Sudan since 1997. With the British Embassy temporarily closed, it is regrettably not possible to provide support to British businesses affected by the conflict. |
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Department for Business and Trade: Offenders
Asked by: Philip Davies (Conservative - Shipley) Tuesday 12th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants in her Department have a criminal conviction. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) DBT do not centrally hold data on employees with criminal convictions. This information will be captured and considered at application stage by the Government Recruitment Service through the BPSS checks. In line with wider Civil Service guidance, the Department does encourage applications from those with prior convictions via our recruitment campaigns on Civil Service Jobs. The department also supports the Going Forwards into Employment, Prison Leaver scheme which is an exception to the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. |
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Department for Business and Trade: WhatsApp
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance her Department issues on the use of WhatsApp. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) All departments in central government, including arms lengths bodies apply the published guidance: Using non-corporate communication channels (e.g. WhatsApp, private email, SMS) for government business). This was published by the Cabinet Office in March 2023. It applies to all individuals in central government (ministers, special advisers, officials, contractors, non-executive board members and independent experts advising ministers). The Department for Business and Trade uses the central guidance and has applied it since March 2023. |
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Department for Business and Trade: Supply Estimates
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish an explanatory memorandum in relation to her Department’s supplementary estimates for 2023-24. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) Yes, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade will publish an explanatory memorandum in relation to the Department’s Supplementary Estimates for 2023-24. |
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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Fraud and Maladministration
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her (a) her Department and (b) the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in each of the last three financial years. Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero) The Government proactively investigates and prevents fraud in the system. We have established the dedicated Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.
Due to the Machinery of Government changes, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has not yet produced fraud and error estimates but this will be published in the 23/24 annual report and accounts.
The latest Government figures for the former department BEIS can be found in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts (2022/2023). |
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Fraud and Maladministration
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her Department and predecessor Departments in each of the last three financial years. Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud in the system. We have established the dedicated Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.
Due to the Machinery of Government changes, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have not yet produced fraud and error estimates, but this will be published in the 23/24 annual report and accounts.
The latest Government figures for former BEIS can be found in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts (2022/2023). |
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Carbon Emissions: Finance
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Transport: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review, which policies were identified for receipt of core net zero spend funding from the £1 billion allocated to fund decarbonisation of cars and vans in the financial year 2024-25 at the time that Budget was published; how much funding each of those policies was due to receive; and whether any of those policies have been discontinued since 2021. Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) The £1 billion allocated to fund the decarbonisation of cars and vans for the financial year 2024-25 in the 2021 Spending Review was allocated to a range of policies across the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (now the Department for Business and Trade).
For the Department for Transport, HM Treasury allocated £619m for policies relating to zero emission vehicles, electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and air quality.
This sum was subsequently allocated by the Department to specific policies, including the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund, the Rapid Charging Fund, the Plug-in Vehicle Grants, EV Homecharging Schemes, the Workplace Charging Scheme and the Joint Air Quality Unit’s NO2 programme. All grants are kept under continual review to ensure best value for money for the taxpayer.
The remaining funding (£333m) was allocated for the Department for Business, Energy and Industry Strategy, for the electrification of UK vehicles and their supply chain, including through the Automotive Transformation Fund Programme. This aims to support the creation of an internationally competitive EV supply chain in the UK, through research and development and capital investments. |
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Carbon Emissions: Finance
Asked by: Louise Haigh (Labour - Sheffield, Heeley) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Transport: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 73 of the Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021, which policy areas will receive funding from the £1.8 billion allocated to core net zero spend relating to the Department for Transport for the 2024-25 financial year; and how much funding as been issued to each of those policy areas for the 2024-25 financial year. Answered by Anthony Browne - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport) The £1.8 billion allocated to the Department for Transport for the financial year 2024-25 in the 2021 Spending Review supports net zero policies across zero emission vehicles (including buses) and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, the bus transformation funding to support local authority Bus Service Improvement Plans, air quality improvement measures, active travel policies, City Region Sustainable Transport Settlements, Nexus Metrofleet in Newcastle, rail electrification, and the UK’s production of sustainable aviation fuel.
£333 million of the £1.8 billion was reallocated to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (now the Department for Business and Trade), for the electrification of UK vehicle manufacturing and their supply chains, including through the Automotive Transformation Fund Programme.
The Department’s business planning process for 2024-25 financial year remains ongoing and final plans will be published in due course as per standard practice.
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Horizon IT System: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Asked by: Lord Framlingham (Conservative - Life peer) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Offord of Garvel on 14 February (HL2130), whether the Government were informed of any action by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman resulting from the sub-postmaster's complaint. Answered by Lord Offord of Garvel - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) reports to Parliament directly and is held to account through the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. Therefore, the Department for Business and Trade is unable to respond on their behalf. The Ombudsman’s officials have indicated to my Department that they will take no further action on the complaint, at least until the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry and the GLO compensation scheme have run their course. |
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Department for Business and Trade: Publishing
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what reports and guidance their Department and its predecessor Department has produced in the last three years; and how much was spent on their (a) printing and (b) distribution. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the Department. Reports and guidance that the Department has published can be found on gov.uk. |
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Domestic Visits
Asked by: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour (Co-op) - Leicester South) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, how many domestic overnight visits Ministers within (a) her Department and (b) the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy were taken in each of the last three financial years; and what the cost to the public purse was of these visits over the same time period. Answered by Andrew Griffith - Minister of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology) The Government publishes on GOV.UK details of the cost of overseas Ministerial travel, including costs of travel, and on other costs (vias, accommodation, meals). |
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Department for Business and Trade: Fraud and Maladministration
Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East) Monday 11th March 2024 Question to the Department for Business and Trade: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate she has made of the amount of money lost to fraud and error by her Department in each of the last three financial years. Answered by Nusrat Ghani - Minister of State (Minister for Europe) The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud in the system. We have established the dedicated Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year it delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits. The PSFA produces a Fraud Landscape Report. This provides data on fraud and error detection, loss and recoveries in central government, outside of the tax and welfare system. The 2020/21 Report was published in March 2023. Due to the recent Machinery of Government changes, the Department for Business and Trade have not yet published any fraud and error estimates. The latest published figures available for the Department for International Trade are available in the 2022 Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Annual Report. The latest Government figures made available in the BEIS Annual Report and Accounts (2022/2023), for all BEIS activities, indicated that estimated expected losses due to fraud and error within the Bounce Back Loan Scheme will be £1.74bn. There are not material levels of fraud and error within the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme or the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme. Other losses include £4 million in relation to 2 suspected fraudulent payments within the Future Fund Scheme. |
Early Day Motions |
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Wednesday 13th March Palestinians and the Researchers at Risk scheme 15 signatures (Most recent: 26 Mar 2024)Tabled by: Caroline Lucas (Green Party - Brighton, Pavilion) This House commends the Researchers at Risk scheme instituted by the British Academy in partnership with the Council for At-Risk Academics and with support from the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society; notes that the scheme was funded primarily by the Department for … |
Bill Documents |
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Mar. 14 2024
Delegated Powers Memorandum prepared by the Department for Business and Trade Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill 2023-24 Delegated Powers Memorandum Found: Delegated Powers Memorandum prepared by the Department for Business and Trade |
Mar. 14 2024
Bill 183 2023-24 (as introduced) - large print Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2024 Bill Found: .* Prior period adjustments.131 Department for Business and Trade Estimate Net resources authorised |
Mar. 14 2024
Bill 183 2023-24 (as introduced) Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2024 Bill Found: . * Prior period adjustments.39 Department for Business and Trade Estimate Net resources authorised |
Mar. 13 2024
Bill 181 2023-24 (as introduced) Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill 2023-24 Bill Found: Horizon System) Offences Bill EXPLANA TORY NOTES Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department |
Mar. 13 2024
Bill 181 EN 2023-24 - large print Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill 2023-24 Explanatory Notes Found: • These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Department for Business and Trade in order |
Mar. 13 2024
Bill 181 EN 2023-24 Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill 2023-24 Explanatory Notes Found: • These Explanatory Notes have been prepared by the Department for Business and Trade in order to |
Mar. 13 2024
Bill 181 2023-24 - large print Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill 2023-24 Bill Found: Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill EXPLANATORY NOTES Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department |
National Audit Office |
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Mar. 14 2024
Department for Business and Trade 2022-23 (PDF) Found: Department for Business and Trade 2022-23 |
Mar. 14 2024
Department for Business and Trade 2022-23 (webpage) Found: Department for Business and Trade 2022-23 |
Department Publications - Policy and Engagement |
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Thursday 14th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: UK's approach to negotiating an enhanced free trade agreement with Turkey Document: UK's approach to negotiating an enhanced free trade agreement with Turkey (webpage) Found: From: Department for Business and Trade Published 14 March 2024 Get emails about this page |
Thursday 14th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: UK's approach to negotiating an enhanced free trade agreement with Turkey Document: UK-Turkey Enhanced FTA Strategic Approach (PDF) Found: for Business and Trade opened a call for input on 2 November 2023 to give businesses, business associations |
Monday 11th March 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: Improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations Document: Improving the effectiveness of the Money Laundering Regulations (PDF) Found: limited to the law enforcement agencies, HM Treasury and specific agencies under the oversight of the Department |
Friday 8th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016: Keeling Schedule Document: The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016: Keeling Schedule (PDF) Found: Rules and is of no legal effect. 398 I concur, on behalf of the Secretary of State Margot James Department |
Department Publications - Transparency |
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Thursday 14th March 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: FRAB minutes and associated papers: 23 November 2023 Document: FRAB 151 (02) 2022-23 Reporting Cycle Update (PDF) Found: However, several departments continue to lay after the deadline (DEFRA, BEIS/DSIT, Cabinet Office), |
Thursday 14th March 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: FRAB minutes and associated papers: 23 November 2023 Document: FRAB 151 (03) NAO update to FRAB November 2023 (PDF) Found: Cabinet Office •International Trade •FCO/DfID (now FCDO) Post recess: •HM Treasury •Defence •Transport •BEIS |
Thursday 14th March 2024
HM Treasury Source Page: FRAB minutes and associated papers: 23 November 2023 Document: FRAB 151 (09) Sustainability reporting update and TCFD-alignment (PDF) Found: The decision will be made by the Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) |
Department Publications - Policy paper |
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Wednesday 13th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill: supporting documents Document: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill: supporting documents (webpage) Found: From: Department for Business and Trade and Post Office Published 13 March 2024 Get emails |
Department Publications - Services |
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Wednesday 13th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters Document: (webpage) Found: provide in this Submission to be processed in line with the Privacy Notice Yes No Do you consent for the Department |
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters Document: Public submissions on environment and labour FTA chapters (webpage) Found: From: Department for Business and Trade Published 13 March 2024 Get emails about this page |
Department Publications - Consultations |
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Tuesday 12th March 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Review of electricity market arrangements (REMA): second consultation Document: Review of Electricity Market Arrangements: Second Consultation document (PDF) Found: reforms that result in a comprehensive and effective set of electricity market arrangements . 13 BEIS |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Source Page: Review of electricity market arrangements (REMA): second consultation Document: Review of Electricity Market Arrangements: options assessment (PDF) Found: sector has largely been driven by changes introduced as part of the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) 1 BEIS |
Department Publications - Research |
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Tuesday 12th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Energy Statistics for Rural England Document: Statistical Digest of Rural England - Energy (PDF) Found: representative of 2019 onwards (Note A-3) the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero ( DESNZ ) / Department |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Energy Statistics for Rural England Document: (webpage) Found: representative of 2019 onwards (Note A-3) the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) / Department |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Source Page: Energy Statistics for Rural England Document: (ODS) Found: For more information about these electricity consumption statistics, see Section 3 of the BEIS / DESNZ |
Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Friday 8th March 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: WIN Programme completes first ever trade mission Document: WIN Programme completes first ever trade mission (webpage) Found: Department for Business and Trade is training a new generation of exporters to build on £104 billion |
Non-Departmental Publications - Policy paper |
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Mar. 13 2024
Post Office Source Page: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill: supporting documents Document: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill: supporting documents (webpage) Policy paper Found: From: Department for Business and Trade and Post Office Published 13 March 2024 Get emails |
Non-Departmental Publications - News and Communications |
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Mar. 13 2024
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Source Page: Wrongful Post Office convictions to be quashed through landmark legislation: 13 March 2024 Document: Wrongful Post Office convictions to be quashed through landmark legislation: 13 March 2024 (webpage) News and Communications Found: The Department for Business and Trade will now be responsible for delivering the new Horizon Convictions |
Mar. 12 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Source Page: Sharma, Alok - President for COP26 - ACOBA Advice Document: Advice letter: Alok Sharma, Senior Advisor, EQT AB (PDF) News and Communications Found: As the former COP 26 President and, before that, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial |
Mar. 12 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Source Page: Sharma, Alok - President for COP26 - ACOBA Advice Document: Advice Letter: Alok Sharma, Speaker, Chartwell Speakers (PDF) News and Communications Found: The Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma KCMG MP, former President for COP26 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy |
Mar. 12 2024
Advisory Committee on Business Appointments Source Page: Sharma, Alok - President for COP26 - ACOBA Advice Document: Advice Letter: Alok Sharma, Climate and Finance Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation (PDF) News and Communications Found: The Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma KCMG MP, former President for COP26 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy |
Mar. 12 2024
UK Defence and Security Exports Source Page: Security and Policing 2024 Document: Security and Policing 2024 (webpage) News and Communications Found: Countries, territories, and organisations invited by Department for Business and Trade, UK Defence and |
Non-Departmental Publications - Guidance and Regulation |
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Mar. 12 2024
Export Control Joint Unit Source Page: Notice to exporters 2024/04: The Export Control (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Document: Notice to exporters 2024/04: The Export Control (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (webpage) Guidance and Regulation Found: From: Export Control Joint Unit and Department for Business and Trade Published 12 March 2024 |
Mar. 11 2024
Education and Skills Funding Agency Source Page: Teachers’ pension employer contribution grant 2024 for schools, high needs settings and local authorities: 2024 to 2025 Document: (ODS) Guidance and Regulation Found: 1.10045937066004 133364 302 Barnet Pardes House Primary School 356 0 0 16 0 1.10045937066004 133365 302 Barnet Beis |
Non-Departmental Publications - Open consultation |
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Mar. 11 2024
Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Rail, Road and Inland Waterway Transport Block Exemption Regulation consultation Document: Call for inputs (PDF) Open consultation Found: The responses to the present Call for Inputs may also be shared with the Department for Business and |
Mar. 11 2024
Competition and Markets Authority Source Page: Rail, Road and Inland Waterway Transport Block Exemption Regulation consultation Document: Rail, Road and Inland Waterway Transport Block Exemption Regulation consultation (webpage) Open consultation Found: Exemption Regulation page The responses to the present Call for Inputs may also be shared with the Department |
Scottish Select Committee Publications |
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Thursday 7th March 2024
Correspondence - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs to the Convener, 7 March 2024 Update on Legislation to Reverse the Convictions of Wrongly Convicted Sub-Postmasters Criminal Justice Committee Found: scottish.ministers @gov.scot Kevin Hollinrake MP Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business Department |
Scottish Government Publications |
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Wednesday 13th March 2024
EU Directorate Source Page: Scotland’s International Network Reporting: FOI Release Document: Document 4 (PDF) Found: measures in place for reopening the office plus enhanced measures based on local guidance published by BEIS |
Tuesday 12th March 2024
Chief Economist Directorate Source Page: Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2023 Document: Public Sector Employment Scotland Tables Q4 2023 (ODS) Found: Standards Agency (until 31 March 2015), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Business, Energy |