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450667

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date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has spent on debt collection agencies in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The core Department has spent £0 on debt collection agencies in the last seven years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:41:45 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450668

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with how many debt collection agencies his Department has a contract.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The core Department has no direct contracts with debt collection agencies.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:38:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450671

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
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 Department's policy is on the use of debt collection agencies to collect outstanding payments.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The core Department’s policy is governed by HM Treasury’s ‘Managing Public Money’ guidance. This sets out that public sector organisations should always pursue recovery of debts. In practice there will be both practical and legal limits to how cases should be handled. So each case should be dealt with on its merits. Within BIS, the use of a debt collection agency would only be considered after all other methods of recovery had failed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:43:26 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450674

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how his Department regulates the activities of debt collection agencies during the period that they are under contract with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Should any direct contracts be let with debt recovery agencies, the scope and extent of any activity would be agreed as part of the contract negotiation and a process of routine monitoring put in place.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:40:14 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450675

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
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 of the ethical standards of debt collection agencies his Department undertakes before entering into a contract with such agencies.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any debt collection contracts let by the core Department would primarily use available framework contracts agreed by the Crown Commercial Service who are responsible for including any required assessment of ethical standards. However, if the need for a specialist debt collection contract should arise that could not be met by a framework contract, the Department’s tender and contract documentation would include further assessments as may be deemed necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:25:08 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450699

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government: Debt Collection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has spent on debt collection activity in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/02/2016 answer text <p>This information is not held centrally. Individual departments are responsible for managing their own debt.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/02/2016 13:37:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450815

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the new Enterprise Allowance scheme.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Latest statistics show that 76,960 new businesses have been set up with the support of the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA).</p><p> </p><p>A cohort study of the initial participants in the scheme showed that 78% of the first 2,960 NEA participants who started to trade remained off benefits for 52 weeks.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2016 we published an evaluation report which showed that business established with the support of NEA had a sustainability rate of 80%, with over 90% of these trading for over 12 months. Around half of the respondents to the survey reported an expansion in their customer base or an increase in turnover. The majority of respondents were planning to expand their business in the future.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/02/2016 13:44:38 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450817

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have applied to the National Enterprise Allowance scheme in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	26011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Claimants who are interested in participating in the New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) are referred by their work coach to a provider so that they can explore the self-employment options. Participation is voluntary.</p><p> </p><p>The take up of the NEA is closely linked to the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, which begun to drop in 2013 – 2014. It is also worth noting that during 2013 the Department ran a high profile marketing campaign to promote the NEA, using posters &amp; leaflets in jobcentres, YouTube videos, Webinars etc. which may also have influenced take up of the scheme in that year.</p><p> </p><p>The table below shows how many starts there were with a business mentor in each financial year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>NEA mentor starts by financial year (<sup>1</sup>)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number <sup>(2,3)</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 - March 2012</p></td><td><p>15,170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 - March 2013</p></td><td><p>31,880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 - March 2014</p></td><td><p>47,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014 - March 2015</p></td><td><p>39,830</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015 - September 2015 (six months)</p></td><td><p>18,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>(1) Data Source - DWP LMS opportunities evaluation database October 2015 for all quarters, DWP PRaP database October 2015 for Jan-Sept 2015.</p><p>(2) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>(3) It is possible that an individual may start to work with a mentor more than once and therefore appear more than once in these figures.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/02/2016 14:39:57 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450818

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Start Up Loans Company: Applications
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 applications have been approved by the Start-up Loan Company in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	26012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p>Since the Start Up Loans Company was established in September 2012, the Start-up Loans Company has approved a total of 36,960 applications. A breakdown of applications granted in each of the past four financial years since the Company began is set out below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>SULCo Loans Approved</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Volume</p></td><td><p>Value</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-2013</p></td><td><p>2,565</p></td><td><p>£13,922,757</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-2014</p></td><td><p>13,431</p></td><td><p>£74,218,127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-2015</p></td><td><p>13,658</p></td><td><p>£68,344,871</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-2016 <em>(up to December 2015)</em></p></td><td><p>7,306</p></td><td><p>£50,235,681</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/02/2016 17:12:12 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450819

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	New Enterprise Allowance: Advisory Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many National Enterprise Allowance advisers are employed as part of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The NEA is delivered by contracted providers who use a combination of paid and volunteer mentors to deliver business mentoring support. The exact number of mentors used by providers is not known.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 12/02/2016 13:38:53 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands