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47121

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
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
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 has been disbursed in compensation for the carbon price floor in each month since April 2013.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	195488
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government is waiting for state aid approval from the European Commission for the carbon price floor compensation scheme. We expect to get a final decision later this month and we are hopeful that we will be able to commence the scheme shortly thereafter.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

47014

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 funding has been invested by the Green Investment Bank in the development of wood-based industries and technologies.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne McGuire
uin	195346
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Green Investment Bank (GIB) may invest only in specified green sectors. Its scope to finance projects involving wood based industries is limited to projects that use either waste wood recovered from landfill or wood pellets made from forestry management waste as biomass fuel to generate renewable energy. GIB has directly committed £12 million of debt finance to one project that uses waste wood to generate electricity and £100 million of finance towards the conversion of Drax power station to run partly on biomass fuel pellets rather than coal. In addition, the Bank has indirectly committed through its specialist fund managers £37 million of finance to projects that generate power from recovered waste wood and £21 million to projects that generate power from biomass pellets. Information about these and other GIB transactions to date can be found on the GIB website: <a href="http://www.greeninvestmentbank.com/" target="_blank">www.greeninvestmentbank.com</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	636 label Biography information for Dame Anne McGuire

47015

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 regional growth funding has been allocated to LEPs for wood-focused initiatives to create jobs in rural areas.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne McGuire
uin	195352
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Agriculture is a restricted sector under State Aid rules, therefore regional growth funds cannot be allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships for wood-focused initiatives.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	636 label Biography information for Dame Anne McGuire

47016

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 his Answer of 12 March 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on bananas, if he will hold discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority on the effect of supermarket pricing policies on banana farmers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	195363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills maintains regular dialogue with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). If the CMA receives evidence that anti-competitive practices are having an adverse effect on the supply chain for bananas, the Department would consider discussing, as part of its ongoing communications with the CMA, the issues arising.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

47017

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 12 March 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on bananas, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the grocery retail market is working well for UK consumers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	195378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The most recent assessment by the Competition Commission of competition in the grocery retail sector (“The supply of groceries in the UK market investigation”, 2008) found that the sector generally worked well for UK consumers and that the main retailers were not exploiting dominant positions.</p><p> </p><p>If there is evidence of anti-competitive behaviour in the groceries retail sector, this should be sent to the Competition and Markets Authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

47018

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 (a) level of government funding for and (b) effect of research undertaken to date into gender differences in brain development and functioning.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	195379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment of the level of funding or effect of research in this area.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

46708

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 representations he has received relating to concerns over Grant Thornton's handling of insolvency or bankruptcy cases since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
uin	195094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Prior to the introduction of the Insolvency Service's Complaints Gateway in June 2013 no central record was maintained of numbers of complaints made against individual firms.</p><p> </p><p>Since June 2013 there have been 794 complaints received via the Complaints Gateway, of which 70 related to recorded complaints about insolvency practitioners from Grant Thornton in respect to formal insolvency procedures.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

46709

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 break down the £31,400,000 for Royal Mail sale transaction costs in his Department's Supplementary Estimates 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	195034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Supplementary Estimate included a Reserve Claim to cover the cost of managing and realising the Royal Mail pension assets in 2013-14 of c£31.4m. This is in line with the funding arrangement agreed with HM Treasury in May 2011, whereby costs over and above £50m funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) would be met by HM Treasury. These assets transferred to Government from the Royal Mail Pension Plan in April 2012.</p><p> </p><p>The Supplementary Estimate also included a Reserve Claim to cover the total cost of the transaction estimated to be around £32.6m of which £9.2m is stamp duty, £13.1m underwriters and intermediaries commission fees, £4.2m underwriters' discretionary fee which has not been paid, and the balance the direct retail cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

46710

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what timetable he has adopted for the introduction of a Statutory Code and Adjudicator in the public house sector.
tabling member constituency	Cannock Chase
tabling member printed	Mr Aidan Burley
uin	195037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Between April and June 2013 the Government consulted on proposals to establish a statutory Code of Practice and an independent Adjudicator, which are aimed at supporting pub tenants. The Government received over one thousand one hundred written responses to the consultation on pub companies and their tenants and over seven thousand responses to the online survey conducted in parallel. We are considering the evidence carefully, to ensure that intervention is both proportionate and targeted, and we intend to publish a Government Response to the consultation as soon as we can.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	3937 label Biography information for Mr Aidan Burley

46713

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the total value is of all bids received from Local Enterprise Partnerships for the Local Growth Fund to date.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	195056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>All 39 Local Enterprise Partnerships submitted their Strategic Economic Plans to Government on 31st March. All proposals are currently being reviewed and assessed against the published criteria and it is too early to know the total call on the fund. However from an initial review it is clear that the Local Growth Fund is significantly over-subscribed, with bids totalling approximately three or four times the amount available.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne