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457903

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Property: Ownership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking in advance of the Global Anti-Corruption Summit in London in May to legislate to subject UK property owned by offshore companies to the same regulations as domestic companies and individuals.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL6721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>A discussion paper on proposals to require foreign companies to provide beneficial ownership information when purchasing or owning property or bidding for public contracts was published on Friday 4 March.</p><p> </p><p>The document has been published here: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/property-ownership-and-public-contracting-by-foreign-companies-improving-transparency" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/consultations/property-ownership-and-public-contracting-by-foreign-companies-improving-transparency</a> and copies of the discussion paper have been placed in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/03/2016 12:29:31 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name bis-16-161-beneficial-ownership-transparency.pdf title Contracting by Foreign Companies
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

457907

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Refugees: Calais
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much compensation has been paid or committed to any company involved in cross-channel traffic because of losses or additional costs due to the number of migrants in the Calais area.
tabling member printed	Lord Berkeley
uin	HL6725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The department has not paid or committed to pay compensation to any company involved in cross-channel traffic because of losses or additional costs due to the number of migrants in the Calais area.</p><p>The Business Support Helpline is available to businesses seeking advice on managing disruption.</p><p>In the 2015 Autumn Statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer committed £250 million to finding a long term solution to Operation Stack.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/03/2016 13:17:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3526 label Biography information for Lord Berkeley

457910

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will publish a full list of the subjects for which the equivalent or lower qualifications rule will be relaxed, as announced in the 2015 Spending Review and Autumn Statement.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6728
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Part time students studying for a second degree in subjects allied to medicine; biological sciences; veterinary sciences, agriculture and related subjects; physical sciences; and mathematical sciences will be eligible for a tuition fee loan from the 2017/18 academic year. These are in addition to the exemption for part time technology, computer science and engineering degrees introduced in 2015/16. Subject lists below these broad headings are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency at <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/component/content/article?id=1787" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/component/content/article?id=1787</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 21/03/2016 15:53:17 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park attachment 1 file name HESA Statistics.pdf title HESA Statistics
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

457911

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Postgraduate Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to raise awareness of the Postgraduate Loans Scheme in 2016–17 and 2017–18.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company has produced a suite of information and guidance materials for institutions and prospective students and this is available from SLC’s website, The Student Room and Gov.UK. Additionally, BIS and the SLC are working together with a number of organisations, including Universities UK, to ensure that information and guidance is also disseminated through their own channels. Plans for 2017-18 will be drawn up later this year once the loan has been launched</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 16/03/2016 16:26:31 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

457912

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Postgraduate Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much is being spent on promoting the Postgraduate Loans Scheme in 2016–17 and 2017–18.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6730
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department is working alongside its delivery partner The Student Loans Company and stakeholders such as Universities UK and Prospects to ensure the correct information and guidance is readily available. The Student Loans Company produces information and guidance materials for institutions and prospective students and expenditure for the financial year 2016-17 is expected to be in the region of £57,000. Budget for 2017-18 has not yet been allocated.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 16/03/2016 16:24:55 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

457913

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will consult on maintenance loans for part-time undergraduate students.
tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
uin	HL6731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government announced in the Spending Review that, for the first time, student finance would be available to part-time students to help meet both tuition and living costs. Discussions are ongoing with stakeholders regarding the new maintenance loan product for part-time higher education students and our current plan is to consult later in the year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 21/03/2016 13:54:40 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull

457931

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Iron and Steel: China
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Bridges of Headley on 25 February (HL Deb, col 389), when they first made representations to the EU Commission as regards allegations of dumping of Chinese steel; when action was taken by the Commission; and what assessment they have made of whether the Commission took effective and prompt action.
tabling member printed	Lord Morris of Aberavon
uin	HL6749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>The European Commission currently has 37 measures in place against steel products, 16 of which concern imports from China.</p><p> </p><p>The government makes regular representations to the European Commission concerning allegations of dumping of steel. The government judges each anti-dumping investigation on its merits, based on the evidence presented by the Commission and on representations from interested parties, including producers, users and importers. We have supported industry calls for action in recent cases, for example in the reinforcing bar case we have raised the steel industry’s concerns that the provisional duties were too low with the Commission. My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills spoke with Commissioner Malmström about this and received assurance that the Commission will reconsider this during the definitive stage of the investigation, if industry can provide the necessary evidence.</p><p> </p><p>Given the current crisis in the steel industry, we continue to press the Commission for faster, more effective action to deal with dumping of steel.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/03/2016 14:48:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	565 label Biography information for Lord Morris of Aberavon

457995

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
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 6 July 2015 to Question 5063, whether the text of the EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement will be subject to approval by Parliament once it has been laid.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	29902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government currently expects the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to be a “mixed agreement” i.e. between Canada, the EU and the EU’s Member States. This would mean that the complete draft text of the agreement would be laid before Parliament for at least 21 sitting days and during this time MPs and Lords may debate the treaty and vote on the proposed ratification.</p><p>CETA is an ambitious trade agreement. However, the Government has concluded that “overall a free trade agreement along the lines of EU-Canada would bring less advantageous terms for UK trade than those we currently enjoy, with particular issues for UK services losing access to the Single Market&quot; (Paragraph 3.65, Alternatives to membership: possible models for the United Kingdom outside the European Union; March 2016).</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 19/04/2016 15:25:50 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

457996

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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: 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 publish any contingency plans his Department has made on trade agreements in the event of a UK exit from the EU.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	29891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>At the February European Council, the Government negotiated a new settlement, giving the United Kingdom a special status in a reformed European Union. The Government's position, as set out by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the House on 22 February, is that the UK will be stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/03/2016 16:32:17 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

457997

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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	Small Businesses: Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to support small and medium-sized businesses in areas that have recently been affected by flooding.
tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
uin	29963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>Following this winter’s severe flooding across northern England, including Calderdale, this Government put in place a comprehensive response and Calderdale has already received over £9.8 million in funding for business and community support.</p><p>Specifically for small and medium sized businesses there are three ways we are helping:</p><p>- giving flooded businesses business rates relief (£1.6 million for Calderdale)</p><p>- providing business recovery grants to help deal with exceptional costs borne by flooded businesses (£1.55 million paid out to businesses to date); and</p><p>- grants to incorporate greater flood resilience into any repairs undertaken by flooded businesses, helping to reduce the future impacts of flooding (£52,000 paid out to date to homes and businesses in Calderdale).</p><p>Other measures such as getting roads, bridges and rail services back working again and repairing and improving flood defences are also clearly a significant help. This includes the £5.5 m to repair Elland Bridge and to provide a temporary footbridge in the interim.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/03/2016 16:48:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker