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423209

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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: Yorkshire and the Humber
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 support small businesses in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) Yorkshire & Humber.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	13037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>We are supporting small businesses in many ways and are committed to making sure the UK is the best place in Europe to start and grow a business. Businesses in West Yorkshire and the Yorkshire and Humber region are benefitting from Government support.</p><p>More than 900 <em>Start Up Loans</em>, worth over £5 million, have been issued across West Yorkshire. And more than 2,600 loans, worth over £14 million, have been issued in the Yorkshire and Humber region.</p><p>Almost 900 West Yorkshire businesses have secured loans worth £87 million under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme. And more than 2,000 businesses in the Yorkshire and Humber region have secured loans worth over £196 million.</p><p>There have been 48 Regional Growth Fund awards across the Yorkshire and Humber region totalling £268 million.</p><p>The Growth Deal programme is supporting growing businesses across the Yorkshire and Humber region, including £8m for growing SMEs across Leeds City Region. The Government is also funding the establishment of growth hubs which bring together local business support and advice into one place. The North Yorkshire &amp; East Riding growth hub is now in place.</p><p>Ambitious, high growth businesses are also benefitting from the Business Growth Service: 369 in West Yorkshire and 900 in Yorkshire and Humber.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 11:42:53 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

423210

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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	Trade Agreements: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on granting Market Economy Status to China under World Trade Organisation rules.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	13061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The UK will examine the Commission’s legal analysis and proposal on addressing the commitment in article 15 of China’s protocol of accession to the World Trade Organisation when it is made available. The UK fully supports the China-EU 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 12:08:47 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

423211

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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: Dartford
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 small businesses were registered in Dartford in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	13065
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The number of small businesses that were registered for VAT or PAYE in Dartford between 2006 and 2015 is shown below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of small[1] businesses registered for VAT or PAYE[2] in Dartford</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>2,420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2,475</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>3,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>3,150</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>3,005</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2,955</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>3,135</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>3,205</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,725</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: ONS, UK Business: activity, size and location.</p><br /><p>[1] Small businesses defined as employing less than 50 people. Data refers to Dartford parliamentary constituency.</p><br /><p>[2] For 2006 and 2007, only the numbers of VAT registered businesses are available.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 11:40:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

423220

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of TTIP on different and separate regulatory systems for compliance with current ISDS provisions in different parts of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	12972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will not threaten the right of the UK or Devolved Administrations to regulate or determine public policy. The Commission has published a proposal for reforms to investment protections in this agreement, which includes a clause setting out governments’ right to regulate.</p><p>The UK will work with the Commission on this proposal to ensure that UK investors are treated fairly overseas by foreign governments while allowing governments to regulate lawfully and in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 12:04:42 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

422840

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Engineering Skills Review
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 he has made in implementing professor John Perkins' Review of Engineering Skills published by his Department in November 2013.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	12911
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Perkins Review of engineering skills made it clear that boosting the number engineers was not an agenda that Government could tackle alone. Engineering employers, the profession and educators should work together with Government to increase the supply of engineers in the UK.</p><br /><p>Government published a one year on progress report in November 2014. This summarised all the actions taken by Government and the engineering community (led by RAEng) in response to the review. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/369566/bis-14-1164-engineering-skills-perkins-review-progress-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/369566/bis-14-1164-engineering-skills-perkins-review-progress-report.pdf</a></p><br /><p>Government interventions include:</p><br /><p>Inspiring young people to consider engineering careers through the Tomorrow’s Engineers week, STEM ambassadors in schools and improved careers advice. We are reforming the curriculum to support science and innovation with more rigorous science GCSEs, new Science A levels, Tech Level and Technical Baccalaureate qualifications and more University Technical Colleges specialising in technical and scientific subjects.</p><br /><p>We are committed to 3m apprenticeship starts this parliament and many of the new employer-led trailblazer apprenticeships standards are in the engineering and manufacturing sector. We are rolling out more degree and higher level apprenticeships to deliver the high level technical skills employers need. We have introduced National Colleges to provide high level skills in sectors crucial for the economy.</p><br /><p>We have invested in higher education for STEM teaching facilities (£200m) and the teaching of high cost subject such as engineering (£185m).</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 27/10/2015 17:06:03 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

422843

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Living Wage: Greater London
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 encourage employers in London to pay the London Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	12895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government encourages all employers to pay more than the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage where they can afford to. The Low Pay Commission’s remit is to set the National Minimum Wage as high as possible without harming employment prospects.</p><br /><p>According to Office for Budget Responsibility estimates, the National Living Wage will benefit 2.7 million low wage workers by 2020. The increase in April 2016 to £7.20 from the current NMW of £6.70 will mean a 7.5% increase in hourly pay, and a full time worker will earn £910 more per annum compared to today.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 27/10/2015 17:04:52 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

422844

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Students: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the number of students with a disability in higher education; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	12896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <br /><p>The latest statistics available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show that in the academic year 2013/14 there were 1.1 million UK domiciled enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions, of which 138,670 declared a disability.</p><br /><p>Further information is published on the HESA website and can be located from this web-link <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1973/239/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1973/239/</a></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/10/2015 15:27:33 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

422845

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Students: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has reviewed the adequacy of financial support for students with disabilities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	12897
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <br /><p>Disabled Students’ Allowances are available to help meet the additional costs that a disabled student is obliged to incur, in relation to their study, by virtue of their disability.</p><br /><p>Disabled Students’ Allowances, along with all other types of student support, are reviewed before laying the annual student support regulations.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/10/2015 15:26:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

422846

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he took the decision not to provide funding to trainees to support the cost of gaining a large goods vehicle licence.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent South
tabling member printed	Robert Flello
uin	12925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>There is a longstanding principle, dating back to 2005, which was communicated to the sector in the 2007/08 funding year, that, in general, we do not provide funding for provision that is either an employer or a statutory requirement. Instead, we believe that these costs should be met by employers or individuals themselves.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 27/10/2015 17:03:31 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1569 label Biography information for Robert Flello

422862

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will bring forward proposals to assist SMEs with higher labour costs by 2020 under the National Living Wage.
tabling member constituency	East Lothian
tabling member printed	George Kerevan
uin	12756
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is reducing Corporation Tax to 19% from 2017-18 and then to 18% from 2020-21; setting the Annual Investment Allowance at a new permanent level of £200,000; and increasing the Employment Allowance by £1,000 to £3,000 from 2016-17. The increase in the employment allowance means a business could employ four people on the National Living Wage and pay no National Insurance Contributions.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/10/2015 15:43:02 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4416 label Biography information for George Kerevan