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417128

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: Carbon Emissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much the Law Officers' Departments spent on carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has participated in carbon offsetting resulting from air travel. However, it has not kept central records of expenditure in respect of carbon offsetting in the last three years and to provide this information would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Government Legal Department has spent £171.28 on carbon offsetting over the last 3 financial years. In 2012-13, £42.13 was paid South Pole Holding AG and in 2013-14 £129.15 was paid to Carbon Footprint Ltd. The companies paid were those who won the e-auctions to provide Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) held by Crown Commercial Services in each of the years identified.</p><p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has spent £153 towards carbon offsetting over the last three years through Crown Commercial Services carbon offsetting arrangements. In 2013, £79 was paid for Fujian Wind power for 116 CERS (Certified Emission Reductions) and £74 to EDF for 104 CERS in January 2014.</p><p>The Attorney General’s Office and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate have not incurred any expenditure on carbon offsetting over the past three years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 14/09/2015 16:30:45 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417132

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Small Businesses: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 20 July 2015 to Question 7500, how many vouchers were redeemed under the Growth Vouchers scheme.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>As of 8 September, 6,731 vouchers had been redeemed with total value over £11m.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/11/2015 08:52:38 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417133

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Overseas Students: Loans
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 he is taking to ensure that students from other EU countries repay student loans taken out in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	9291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Borrowers from other EU countries who remain in the UK after completing their studies make repayments through the UK tax system in the usual way. The Student Loans Company (SLC) informs any borrower, regardless of nationality, going abroad of their obligations to repay and the methods of repayment available to them.</p><p> </p><p>If a borrower who has moved abroad fails to meet their obligations to repay, the SLC will undertake a variety of actions to recover payments. These include the use of international trace services and debt collection agencies.</p><p> </p><p>Collection across the EU is underpinned by EC regulation 44/2001, which allows the SLC to obtain judgments in UK Courts, which can be enforced by courts in other EU countries.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/09/2015 15:57:59 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

417135

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2015 to Question 5250, which projects and programmes that have been funded from the public purse since 2010 relate to each of the Eight Great Technologies.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government identified “8 Great Technologies” in autumn 2012 to highlight key emerging technologies for the UK and increased investment by £600 million to accelerate their application and commercialisation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table provides a non-exclusive list of projects and programmes funded by BIS through Research Councils and InnovateUK relating to the “8 Great Technologies” from the time of publication to January 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not routinely keep records classifying all publically-funded projects and programmes since 2010 according to the 8 Great Technologies, and it would only be possible to provide this information at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Big Data:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AHRC</p></td><td><p>Digital transformations in community research</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Bioinformatics and biological resources fund</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Big Data Infrastructure projects</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Institutes coordination grants</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Open Microscopy Environment (with Wellcome trust)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>DNA Synthesis 2 capital investment</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Capacity increase at Research Data Facility in Edinburgh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ESRC</p></td><td><p>Administrative Data Research Network</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC</p></td><td><p>UK Health Informatics Research Institute</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC</p></td><td><p>Capability development to better understand health and disease</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC</p></td><td><p>Support to 100,000 Genomes project</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NERC</p></td><td><p>Big Data Capital awards</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NERC</p></td><td><p>Capability increase in JASMIN National Data Community facility</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NERC</p></td><td><p>Environmental Research Workbench</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STFC</p></td><td><p>Energy Efficiency Computing</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STFC</p></td><td><p>Square Kilometre Array computing platform</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Digital Economy Catapult</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Open Data Insitute</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK, SDTL &amp; Research Councils</p></td><td><p>Data Exploration Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Satellites and Commercial Applications of Space:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STFC campuses</p></td><td><p>Space science cluster capacity building</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UKSA</p></td><td><p>National Space Technology Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Satellite Applications Catapult</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Space applications</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Robotics and Autonomous Systems:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Centres of Excellence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Centres for Doctoral Training</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Oxford Mobile Robotics Grant</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SBRI &amp; IUK</p></td><td><p>Intelligent Autonomy in the automotive sector</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NERC, IUK &amp; DSTL</p></td><td><p>Capability building in marine autonomous and robotics systems</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK &amp; EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Novel demonstration and commercialisation concepts in robotics</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Synthetic Biology:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC, EPSRC &amp; MRC</p></td><td><p>Multidisciplinary Synthetic Biology Research Centres</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Seed Funding</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Research into DNA Synthesis</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Training at Centre for Doctoral Training</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>National Biologics Manufacturing Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Synbio Innovation and Knowledge Cetnre and projects</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Regenerative Medicine</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MRC, BBRC &amp; EPSRC</p></td><td><p>UK regenerative Medicine Platform</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Cell Therapy Catapult</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Agri-Science</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Innovation Incubator space at Edinburgh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Innovation and diffusion Campus for food and renewable energy at Aberystwyth</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Conference centre and shared resources hub</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC</p></td><td><p>Molecular farming facility at Norwich Research Park</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BBSRC, DfID &amp; IS</p></td><td><p>Agri-tech Catalyst</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IS</p></td><td><p>Innovation Centres</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Advanced Materials:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Research projects</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Advanced Materials for healthcare</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SPSRC &amp; DECC</p></td><td><p>Irradiated materials investment in National Nuclear User Facility</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>STFC</p></td><td><p>Advanced materials beamline at Diamond</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>National Composites Centre</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Research programmes incorporating functional materials</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC, STFC &amp; IUK</p></td><td><p>Sir Hendry Royce Institute for advanced materials</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Energy Storage:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Programme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Area</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Grid-scale efficient energy storage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC, IUK &amp; DECC</p></td><td><p>Energy Catalyst Fund</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EPSRC</p></td><td><p>Novel solutions for energy storage</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>IUK</p></td><td><p>Integrated Energy Challenge</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2015 13:31:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417137

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on the Great Challenges programme; and what recent steps the Government has taken to support that programme.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>Good progress has been made in relation to the Grand Challenges Fund, with approved business cases enabling numerous projects to start. For example the Hartree Centre at Daresbury, a ground-breaking collaboration between IBM and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, has leveraged in £200m of IBM investment to work on data centric and cognitive computing.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>All projects forming part of the Grand Challenges Fund were announced subject to detailed business cases in accordance with published HM Treasury requirements. All projects falling within the fund are receiving support from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Research Councils.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/09/2015 15:52:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417138

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what work his Department is undertaking to review whether tribunal fees are acting as a barrier to justice; and how many officials were engaged in that work (a) in March 2015 and (b) on the last date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>On 11 June we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. The Review is being undertaken by the Fees Policy team, which comprises five officials, with support from officials working in Analytical Services, the legal team, and HMCTS.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 17/09/2015 09:59:36 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417139

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2015 to Question 4159, what (a) process and (b) performance metrics were used to determine the level of fees received by firms involved in the sale of Royal Mail shares.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The level of fees was determined on the basis of previous fees charged for similar services relating to the sale of Government assets and was subject to a competitive tendering process.</p><p> </p><p>The key performance indicator and outcome in this instance was the delivery of a successful secondary sale of Royal Mail shares.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 9933 question first answered 15/09/2015 16:01:55 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417140

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what evaluation or evidence-gathering the Government (a) has carried out or commissioned and (b) plans to carry out into (i) the Grand Challenges programme announced on 17 December 2014 and (ii) the Eight Great Technologies.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/09/2015 answer text <p>All Grand Challenges Fund projects are subject to detailed business cases in accordance with HM Treasury requirements. The projects are evaluated by analytical, finance and project specialists within BIS, and the relevant Research Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Evidence underpinning the “Eight Great Technologies” was set out in the Eight Great Technologies pamphlet accompanying David Willetts’ speech of the 24<sup>th</sup> of January 2013 [<em>Eight Great Technologies, David Willetts, Policy Exchange 2013</em>].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Projects that form part of the Grand Challenges programme are supported from the £6.9 billion science capital budget, which was subject to a public consultation launched in December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Innovate UK and the Research Councils work together to explore and develop new approaches for moving potentially high impact technologies more rapidly from the research base into commercial reality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 28/09/2015 10:27:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417141

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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 Funding Council for England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funds the HEFCE has allocated to (a) the Equality Challenge Unit and (b) the Athena SWAN programme in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) future financial years; and what effect his Department's announcement on 4 June 2015 has had on those programmes.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/09/2015 answer text <p>In the 2014-15 academic year, Higher Educatiuon Funding Council for England provided £1m to the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU), and in the 2015-16 academic year HEFCE will provide £671k.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Prior to the June announcement, HEFCE had taken the decision to cease core funding of the ECU from 2016-17. The funding allocations to ECU were not affected by the 4June announcements.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ECU will continue with a subscriber-based funding model for Higher Education Institutions in England. HEFCE does not directly fund the Athena SWAN Charter.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/09/2015 15:44:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

417142

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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 Funding Council for England: Staff
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 members of staff are employed in the HEFCE Equality Challenge Unit.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	9304
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2015 answer text <p>The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) and HEFCE are two separate organisations. The ECU employs 28.2 full-time equivalent staff and HEFCE employs 242 full-time equivalent staff.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/09/2015 15:59:08 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna