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date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Textiles: Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to support exports of UK textile manufacturing.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	223754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) provides a wide range of help to businesses in all sectors - including textile manufacturers - that are seeking to export. UKTI will also continue to work with textile trade associations in organising trade missions and taking textile manufacturers to trade shows and other events around the world as it has done over the past year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/03/2015 10:23:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

178446

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to (a) encourage firms to pay a fair wage to workers in their overseas supply chains and (b) stop other forms of exploitation of those workers.
tabling member constituency	Dundee West
tabling member printed	Jim McGovern
uin	223816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has introduced a requirement for large listed companies to include in their Strategic Report information on human rights issues. This requirement will be further enhanced by the Non-Financial Reporting Directive, due to come into force by 2017, which specifically includes human rights due diligence and supply chains.</p><p> </p><p>In December last year, I announced support from BIS for the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, which will assess and rank the human rights performance of 500 companies worldwide. The combination of enhanced disclosure and published assessments of company performance will provide a powerful incentive to businesses to ensure that workers in their overseas supply chains are free from exploitation and are paid fair wages.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/02/2015 10:58:36 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1515 label Biography information for Jim McGovern

178290

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Higher Education: Bradford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students have gone to university from Bradford in each year between 2001 and 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	223725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2015 answer text <p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) publishes young participation rates by Parliamentary Constituency. These show the proportion of young people in each parliamentary constituency who entered higher education by the age of 19, for each cohort of 18 year olds between 1998 and 2011. These can be viewed at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em><a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/yp/trendsyp/pment/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/yp/trendsyp/pment/</a></em></p><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p>The statistics will be updated to include the 2012 cohort of 18 year olds in the Summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 17/03/2015 15:45:18 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 44953 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward