Asked by: Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made a recent assessment of the effectiveness of OFGEM's increase of the Headroom Allowance.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The setting of the energy price cap is a matter for the independent regulator Ofgem. Therefore BEIS has made no assessment.
Asked by: Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help make it easier for fathers to take statutory parental leave.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
In 2019 the Government consulted on high-level options for reforming parental leave and pay. The Government are currently considering responses to the consultation and will respond in due course. As set out in the Government’s Manifesto, the Government is committed to making it easier for fathers to take Paternity Leave.
Asked by: Alex Sobel (Labour (Co-op) - Leeds North West)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to help support working parents with flexible working options that can help increase their workplace participation.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
All employees with 26 weeks’ continuous service with their employer already have the right to request flexible working.
In 2021, the government consulted on measures that would further support the uptake of flexible working arrangements, including whether to extend the right to request flexible working to employees from their first day of employment. The consultation is now closed, having received over 1,600 responses. We will respond in due course.
The Government is also pleased to be supporting the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for Bolton South East, which passed Second Reading on 28 October.