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454007

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date	23/02/2016
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	Innovate UK: Grants
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 the future of the Innovate UK Smart funding programme.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	27864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>Innovate UK is tasked with increasing growth and productivity across the UK through supporting business-led innovation. The number of different programmes it delivers has increased over the years and in some cases have become confusing for businesses, especially for SMEs, to navigate. Consequently, Innovate UK is currently simplifying its support to innovative businesses. Innovate UK intends to publish new Strategy and Delivery plans, which will outline its funding approaches and programmes.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/02/2016 14:57:52 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

454009

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Research Councils: Finance
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 decides on allocation of funding to research councils; and what assessment he has made of the grounds for significant changes being made to the relative size of allocations to each research council compared to allocations in previous years.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	27862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The allocations will be published shortly. As in previous years, the allocations will be made by ministers following discussions with BIS delivery partners.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/02/2016 15:00:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

454020

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Higher Education
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 make an assessment of the variation in the number of teaching hours provided to and fees paid by university students.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Danny Kinahan
uin	27969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>No such assessment currently exists. However, in our Green Paper<em>: “Fulfilling our potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” </em>we proposed that the new Teaching Excellence Framework could consider information about levels of teaching intensity and contact hours. We will be setting out our response to the Green Paper in due course.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/02/2016 14:59:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4381 label Biography information for Danny Kinahan

454033

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Public Consultation
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 responses his Department received to the devolving Sunday trading rules consultation.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	28167
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department received 7,171 responses to that consultation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 14:05:52 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

454034

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Public Consultation
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 responses to the Government's consultation on devolving Sunday trading rules were opposed to any relaxation of Sunday trading rules.
tabling member constituency	Stalybridge and Hyde
tabling member printed	Jonathan Reynolds
uin	28168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The consultation was about a specific proposal to devolve a power to extend trading hours on Sunday to local areas. The consultation did not ask respondents whether they supported or were opposed to a general relaxation of Sunday trading rules. The Department does not, therefore, hold information on this issue.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 14:02:09 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4119 label Biography information for Jonathan Reynolds

454043

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	UK Membership of EU: Government Assistance
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 he has made of the potential implications for projects supported by State Aid agreements of the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	28116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government's view is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off in a reformed European Union.</p><p>As required by the EU Referendum Act 2015, the Government is committed to producing clear information, ahead of the Referendum, on: the outcome of the renegotiation, rights and obligations in European Union law, an assessment of alternatives to membership, and the process for leaving.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 14:58:31 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn