Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will seek a commitment by major retailers, service providers and organisations to use more people with a visible facial difference in their advertisement campaigns.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
We regularly engage with businesses and organisations across all sectors including major retailers. However, advertising campaigns are a matter for individual companies, all of whom should be aware of the UK’s discrimination laws and best practice in terms of diversity. It is not appropriate for Government to intervene in what is a commercial matter for the businesses and organisations concerned.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many properties there were in (a) London and (b) Hampstead and Kilburn constituency which were registered to owners based overseas in each year since 2016.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
HM Land Registry does not hold definitive information on where registered owners are based.
HM Land Registry holds information on titles that are registered to overseas companies, but this does not include properties registered to individuals who are domiciled overseas. The dataset can be accessed through its website at GOV.UK.
(a) For London there were 43,925 titles in 2017, and 42,796 titles in 2016, registered to overseas companies with HM Land Registry.
(b) For Hampstead & Kilburn there were 1,331 titles in 2017, and 1,208 titles in 2016, registered to overseas companies with HM Land Registry.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many (a) mortgages, (b) leaseholds and (c) properties overall are registered with the Land Registry in (i) London and (ii) Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
HM Land Registry records the number of freehold and leasehold titles registered. A registered title does not always equate one to one with an individual property.
(i) For London, there are (a) 3,077,299 mortgages, (b) 1,368,992 leasehold titles and a total of 3,262,166 freehold and leasehold titles registered with HM Land Registry.
(ii) For Hampstead and Kilburn, there are (a) 27,508 mortgages, (b) 35,241 leasehold titles and a total of 55,648 freehold and leasehold titles registered with HM Land Registry.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will publish the amount charged by the Land Registry in fees for each of the (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory functions it fulfils in each financial year since 2016; and how much was raised in fees (i) nationally, (ii) from registrations in London and (iii) from registrations in Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in each financial year since 2016.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
HM Land Registry publishes information on its fees and charges on its website at GOV.UK.
Nationally for 2015/2016 HM Land Registry received £290,389,000 in statutory fee income and £4,983,000 in non-statutory fee income.
Nationally for 2016/2017 HM Land Registry received £305,858,000 in statutory fee income and £5,567,000 in non-statutory fee income.
Fee data is not held at regional or constituency level and obtaining that would be at disproportionate cost.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to publish the latest estimates made by HM Revenue and Customs on the (a) number and (b) proportion of workers in (i) the adult care sector and (ii) each other sector who were paid below the level of the national minimum wage.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
Estimates of the number of jobs paid below NMW/NLW are available in Chart 3 on page 10 of the 2017 Government evidence to the LPC report- https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/630197/nmw-nlw-lpc-evidence-compliance-enforcement-2017.pdf
The Government will publish new evidence to the Low Pay Commission containing ASHE 2017 estimates of jobs below minimum wage rates and enforcement stats for 2017/18 later this year.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the consultation Property ownership and public contracting by overseas companies: improving transparency, published by his Department on 4 March 2016, what steps his Department has taken following the results of that consultation.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy published a summary of responses to the consultation on Property ownership and public contracting by overseas companies: improving transparency on 5 April 2017. On the same day, the Department published a call for evidence on an Overseas companies and other legal entities beneficial ownership register. The Government response to the call for evidence will be published shortly. On 24 January this year the Government issued a written ministerial statement confirming the timetable for implementation of this register. The Government will publish a draft Bill before the summer recess this year. We intend to introduce the Bill to Parliament early in the second session. Following Royal Assent and the making of secondary legislation to implement some of the technical details, the register will be operational in 2021.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
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 ensure that disabled people with high energy costs receive support through the Warm Home Discount scheme.
Answered by Claire Perry
Some disabled people are able to receive the Warm Home Discount currently if they are in receipt of qualifying benefits or if they meet the criteria determined by their energy supplier. Government will be consulting shortly on changes to the Warm Home Discount for 2018/19.
We will also be consulting soon on the Energy Company Obligation proposing reforms to focus the whole scheme on low income and vulnerable households.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the consumer green paper will include additional costs incurred by disabled people.
Answered by Andrew Griffiths
We will issue a Consumer Green Paper in due course that will tackle areas where markets are not working for consumers.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving Euratom on medical treatments provided by the NHS.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The Government considers the continuity of supply of medical radioisotopes as well as other medicines to be a high priority matter following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. The Government has made clear that Euratom imposes no restrictions on the export of medical radioisotopes outside the EU. A cross-Departmental effort has already been underway since the summer of 2017 to coordinate and deliver a unified approach towards ensuring continuity of supply for medical radioisotopes after EU exit.