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521930

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: UK Membership of EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from the Law Officers' Departments circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU Referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what he estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	38810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given to questions 38811 and 38825 by my Hon. Friend the Minister for Constitutional Reform on the 8<sup>th</sup> June.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/06/2016 16:17:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

521931

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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: UK Membership of EU
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 place in the Library copies of all letters, leaflets and other material from his Department circulated to (a) stakeholders and (b) members of the public on the EU Referendum; what the costs of the production and distribution of that material has been since 1 January 2016; and what he estimates the cost of any further production and distribution of such material will be between 6 May 2016 and 23 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	William Wragg
uin	38809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office on 9 June 2016 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-05-26/38811/" target="_blank">38811</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/06/2016 11:00:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

521932

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	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 assessment his Department has made of the average effect on graduates (a) student loan repayments and (b) student loan balance of the changes to the loan repayment threshold announced in the 2015 Autumn Statement.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	38722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department published an Equality Analysis in November 2015. Examples showing the impact for different levels of income can be found in Table 4, page 35 of this document:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/06/2016 10:45:43 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

521933

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	Age: Discrimination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the evidence by the Federation of Small Businesses to the National Minimum Wage Low Pay Commission Report Spring 2016, page 244, on age discrimination in recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Halifax
tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
uin	38726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>There have been age-related rates in the minimum wage structure since its introduction in 1999. Setting different minimum wage rates according to the age of the worker helps to protect the employment prospects of younger workers.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions in the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 mean that employers are able to pay different rates to workers of different ages in line with the NMW Regulations 2015. The Equality Act 2010 has a specific exemption which ensures that employers are not vulnerable to age discrimination claims where they have paid their workers the NMW age-related rates.</p><p> </p><p>Leaving aside the NMW rates, any decisions on pay more generally, employment or other terms and conditions taken on the basis of age will need to be objectively justified by the employer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 06/06/2016 10:47:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

521934

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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: UK Membership of EU
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 25 May 2016 to Question 37198, how many of the leaflets entitled Why the Government believes that voting to remain in the European Union is the best decision for the UK have been returned to his Department; and what the postage cost to the Government has been of such returns.
tabling member constituency	Corby
tabling member printed	Tom Pursglove
uin	38765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>I refer my hon. Friend to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's response of 25th May 2016 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-05-18/37198/" target="_blank">37198</a>. This information is not collated centrally by the Department.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/06/2016 13:25:19 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4369 label Biography information for Tom Pursglove

521935

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	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 progress his Department has made on plans to sell off student loans; and what recent estimate he has made of the amount of revenue expected to be raised by that sell off.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	38764
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>As stated in the March 2016 Budget, the Government is continuing to prepare for the sale of the pre-2012 income contingent repayment (ICR) student loan book, with a first sale expected in 2016-17.</p><p> </p><p>The March 2016 Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) Forecast estimated £2.4bn of sale proceeds in 2016-17 - this is an average based on Government’s central estimate of £12bn proceeds from a series of sales over a 5-year period up until 2020-21.</p><p> </p><p>A sale would not impact borrowers. Government would still finance student loans and continue to collect repayments through Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Student Loans Company (SLC). Purchasers would have no direct relationship with borrowers, and would have no power to amend the terms of repayment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/06/2016 10:50:04 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

521936

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	Industrial Health and Safety: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 17 January 2014 to Question 183346, how much of the Economic and Social Research Council budget was allocated to research on health and safety matters in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	38751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p>The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) did not support any grants on Health and Safety within the two financial years specified. However, ESRC did fund a project focussed on Food Safety:</p><p>ES/M002128/1 ‘Seminar Series on Food Options, Opinions and Decisions (FOOD): Integrating perspectives on consumer perceptions of food safety, nutrition and waste’ (£30,125.05, Nov 14 - Nov 17).</p><p>The ESRC provides support for excellent research via both managed mode grants (directed by strategic priorities) and responsive mode grants, and welcomes applications driven by researcher curiosity.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/06/2016 15:57:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

521937

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	Trade Unions: Electronic Voting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to section 4 of the Trade Union Act 2016, when he plans to commission an independent review of electronic balloting; and which organisations he plans to consult before preparing his response to that review.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	38758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>The Trade Union Act establishes that the Government will commission an independent review of electronic balloting in trade union industrial action ballots within six months of the passing of the Act, which received Royal Assent on 4 May 2016.</p><p>The Government is currently considering the next steps before the launch of the independent review and will provide further details in due course.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 07/06/2016 13:31:14 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

521938

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	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 interest has accrued on student loans taken out in each year since 2006.
tabling member constituency	Gedling
tabling member printed	Vernon Coaker
uin	38908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans for each of the UK Government Administrations. Information on the interest added to Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) loans in England is available by financial year in Table 1 of SLC’s Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Student Loans in England’.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent version of the publication, covering the financial years 2012-13 to 2014-15 is available here:</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Earlier editions are available here:</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p>Information for individual entry cohorts could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/06/2016 10:52:06 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	360 label Biography information for Lord Coaker

521939

registered interest
date	26/05/2016
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	Trade Agreements
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 civil servants currently working for the Government have been involved in negotiating trade deals over the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	38835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2016 answer text <p>Trade policy is an EU competence. The European Commission conducts trade negotiations on behalf of the EU and its Member States. It does this working closely with the Member States and the European Parliament.</p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) leads the cross-Whitehall effort to influence the EU’s negotiating position in trade negotiations and ensure this reflects UK interests. There are approximately 40 officials in BIS currently working on the full range of EU trade policy matters, including trade negotiations. They are assisted by officials in other Government Departments.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/06/2016 10:44:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards