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845567

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Modern Working Practices Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2017 to Question 106151, when the Government plans to publish copies of the written evidence submitted to the Taylor Review of modern working practices on the Gov.uk website.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	128539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government intends to publish both the submissions to the review and a list of those who responded. Officials are currently in the process of redacting any personal information from the submissions and aim to publish these shortly.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 23/02/2018 14:30:39 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

845649

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	New Businesses: Barnsley
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to increase the number of business start-ups in Barnsley.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	128621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>Government provides advice to start-up businesses across England through Gov.uk and the Business Support Helpline (0300 456 3565). In addition we have funded the provision of tailored advice and support through the Sheffield City Region Growth Hub.</p><p> </p><p>This growth hub provides support to businesses across the city region, including Barnsley. Sheffield City Region’s Launchpad programme (based at Barnsley’s Digital Media Centre and supported through the Government’s Local Growth Fund) provides free support to local pre-start and new businesses and is delivered through a collaboration involving the local authorities and the Prince’s Trust.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Government funds the Start Up Loans scheme – and the Government supported British Business Bank has start-up loans available for small businesses in Barnsley including through the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund which supports both start-ups and existing businesses with high growth potential.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 23/02/2018 14:27:17 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

845686

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Social Services: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018, if he will take steps to ensure that social care employers provide details of all working time including (a) travel time and (b) sleep-in time on pay slips.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	128658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Order requires all employers to provide details in payslips on the total number of hours paid for. This is to allow workers to identify any under recording of hours worked, and to encourage them to either raise this with their employer or make a free, confidential complaint to Acas. During a Government consultation we gathered evidence on the benefits and drawbacks of introducing further provisions requiring employers to disaggregate hours worked on payslips, and decided against making this a statutory requirement. However, many employers take this approach.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 23/02/2018 14:29:55 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

845687

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018 to ensure that people with fragmented working patterns can record their hours of work.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	128659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Order is intended to ensure time-paid workers know the total number of hours they are being paid for by reference to their payslip. If this figure is less than the total hours the worker has actually worked, then there is a risk of underpayment and we encourage the worker to raise the issue with their employer or raise a free, confidential complaint with Acas.</p><p> </p><p>The provisions in this Order increase transparency and information available to workers, to enable them to identify and then address underpayment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 23/02/2018 14:28:18 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

843724

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department is conducting a review of the potential effects on the economy of (a) amending and (b) removing existing EU-derived employment regulations.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	128106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend the Prime Minister has made a clear commitment to protect workers’ rights and the EU (Withdrawal) Bill will ensure that workers’ rights currently enjoyed under EU law will continue to be available in UK law after we have left the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 22/02/2018 16:40:36 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

843742

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people started to receive statutory (a) paternity pay and (b) shared parental pay since April 2015.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	128165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>From information provided by employers to HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), the following individuals started to receive (a) Statutory Paternity Pay and (b) Statutory Shared Parental Pay between April 2015 and September 2017.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Tax year </strong> <strong>2015 / 2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Tax year </strong> <strong>2016 / 2017</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>April 2017 to September 2017 (inclusive)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Numbers in receipt of Statutory Paternity Pay</strong></p></td><td><p>214,500</p></td><td><p>218,600</p></td><td><p>108,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Numbers in receipt of Statutory Shared Parental Pay </strong></p></td><td><p>6,200*</p></td><td><p>8,700</p></td><td><p>Information is not yet available</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>* This data includes claims for either Statutory Shared Parental Pay or Statutory Additional Paternity Pay: HMRC’s records do not distinguish between the two in 2015/16.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 22/02/2018 13:58:43 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

843750

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the total budget was for the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate in each year from 2007-2008 to 2016-2017.
tabling member constituency	Wallasey
tabling member printed	Ms Angela Eagle
uin	128188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Information on the budget for the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Budget</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007-08</p></td><td><p>N/A *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>N/A *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>N/A *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>£0.925m (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>£0.7m (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>£0.55m (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p></td><td><p>£0.575m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p></td><td><p>N/A *</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>£0.5m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>£0.725m**</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>*For the years 07/08, 08/09, 09/10, 10/11 and 14/15, budgets were held at a higher level of aggregation and managed across a number of different programmes, and we do not therefore hold the information requested for these financial years.</p><p> </p><p>** The increase in budget was provided to purchase new IT systems to increase casework productivity and support EAS’ intelligence capability.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 22/02/2018 16:02:09 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	491 label Biography information for Dame Angela Eagle

839236

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Average Earnings: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to improve the level of average weekly earnings in Yorkshire and Humber.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	127791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The employment rate in Yorkshire and the Humber has grown by 4.1 percentage points since March 2010 to 73%. Our ambitious Industrial Strategy will build on this by enabling the UK to work more productively and boost the earning power of people, businesses, places and the nation as a whole. The Government is backing the Industrial Strategy in Yorkshire and the Humber by investing £1.3bn in local growth funding to create jobs, improve skill levels, and help raise living standards. In addition we agreed a significant programme of Enterprise Zones, which are already attracting investment and jobs across the area.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 20/02/2018 13:59:33 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

839275

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Self-employed: North West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the number of self-employed people who earn below the national living wage in (a) the North West and (b) Liverpool Walton constituency.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	127829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has not made an estimate of the number of self-employed people earning below the National Living Wage. The legal entitlement to receive the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage does not apply to the self-employed.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 20/02/2018 12:11:38 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

839277

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Automation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the automation of jobs on (a) women, (b) BAME people, (c) disabled people and (d) people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	127831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>Through our Industrial Strategy, we are exploring how to utilise technological change to improve participation and progression in the labour market, for people from under-represented groups. This includes those with BAME backgrounds, people with disabilities and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.</p><p> </p><p>Embedding AI across the UK will create thousands of good quality jobs and drive economic growth. A recent study found digital technologies including AI created a net total of 80,000 new jobs annually across a population similar to the UK[1].</p><p> </p><p>Building on the recommendations of the Royal Society and British Academy review, we are creating the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, dedicated to informing decisions on stewardship for the uses and impacts of new data technologies.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Mckinsey (2017), ‘Shaping the future of work in Europe’s 9 digital front-runner countries’ <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/europe/shaping-the-future-of-work-in-eu-ropes-nine-digital-front-runner-countries" target="_blank">https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/europe/shaping-the-future-of-work-in-eu-ropes-nine-digital-front-runner-countries</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 20/02/2018 12:12:31 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden