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518707

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date	18/05/2016
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	M3
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made in developing the IT system to support the delivery of the Digital Apprenticeship Voucher, and what plans they have for testing and piloting that scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Aberdare
uin	HL1
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>The digital apprenticeship service is being built by the Skills Funding Agency in accordance with Cabinet Office best practice.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that the service is focused on employer and training provider needs we are performing extensive user research. The service will build on insights gathered from over 2000 employers and around 400 training providers. To make sure that the service is ready for the levy in April 2017, we plan to launch a substantial pilot with employers and providers later this year.</p><p> </p><p>Further details on the apprenticeship levy and the digital apprenticeship service are available in the guide for employers which was published in April: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-levy-how-it-will-work</a></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 24/05/2016 13:09:33 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name Apprenticeship levy.docx title Apprenticeship levy - how it will work
tabling member	3898 label Biography information for Lord Aberdare

518708

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	St Helena: Hotels
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Institute for Apprenticeships will take over any of the functions carried out by Ofsted, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education or Ofqual, such as the inspection of apprenticeship provision or the regulation of qualifications, and if so, which.
tabling member printed	Lord Aberdare
uin	HL2
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The role of the Institute for Apprenticeships will be to ensure the quality of apprenticeship standards.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships will only attract funding from government or the levy if they are against an approved standard or framework. Each standard will contain a plan for how the apprenticeship will be assessed. Although this will be approved by the Institute, the Institute will not assess the apprenticeship training itself: the register of training providers is owned by the Skills Funding Agency and Ofsted will continue to inspect providers.</p><p>The Institute will, however, need to ensure there is consistency between the levels of assessment being applied, as part of its role in approving standards and assessment plans.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL3 question first answered 01/06/2016 11:50:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3898 label Biography information for Lord Aberdare

518709

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Absent Voting: Northern Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role the new Institute for Apprenticeships will have in regulating the quality of apprenticeships, and what powers it will have to undertake that role.
tabling member printed	Lord Aberdare
uin	HL3
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The role of the Institute for Apprenticeships will be to ensure the quality of apprenticeship standards.</p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeships will only attract funding from government or the levy if they are against an approved standard or framework. Each standard will contain a plan for how the apprenticeship will be assessed. Although this will be approved by the Institute, the Institute will not assess the apprenticeship training itself: the register of training providers is owned by the Skills Funding Agency and Ofsted will continue to inspect providers.</p><p>The Institute will, however, need to ensure there is consistency between the levels of assessment being applied, as part of its role in approving standards and assessment plans.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe grouped question UIN HL2 question first answered 01/06/2016 11:50:21 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3898 label Biography information for Lord Aberdare

518716

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Turkey: EU Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of leaving the EU on businesses that trade with the EU, and what guidance they have given to affected businesses about how they might communicate that impact.
tabling member printed	Lord Bowness
uin	HL10
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2016 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Treasury published a comprehensive analysis of benefits and costs of membership of a reformed EU and the alternatives on 18 April. This included boxes detailing the impact of EU membership on key business sectors such as financial services, aerospace and pharmaceuticals.</p><p> </p><p>According to this analysis, key sectors would be worse off due to reduced access to the Single Market. For example, losing customs-free movement of goods could cause customs delays. In time-sensitive industries, each hour of customs delay can reduce trade by 5%. Treasury analysis also provides a sectoral breakdown of the 3.3 million jobs which are linked to trade with the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister has spoken about the benefits of EU membership at a number of businesses throughout the UK. The transcripts of these are available on the gov.uk website.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 24/05/2016 13:15:36 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3496 label Biography information for Lord Bowness

518728

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Food Poverty: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 19 April (HL Deb, col 614), whether they will write to the Welsh Government Minister for Public Services setting out in full their argument that those sections of the Trade Union Bill applying only to devolved public services in Wales are nevertheless reserved matters, and if so, whether they will place a copy of that letter in the Library of the House.
tabling member printed	Lord Hain
uin	HL22
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>Ministers have engaged with the Devolved Administrations on the Trade Union Act.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our engagement, Nick Boles, the policy Minister for the Trade Union Act, has received four letters from Leighton Andrews, Minister for Public Services in the Welsh Government. These letters related to specific aspects of the Act and the Welsh Government position on their applicability in Wales. On 5th February 2016 Nick Boles had a telephone conversation with Leighton Andrews on the Act; and on 4 March, he replied to the letters and has placed a copy of the correspondence in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>As set out throughout its parliamentary passage, the Act is about employment and industrial relations law, which are reserved matters. It will apply consistently across Great Britain, including to public services in Wales.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/06/2016 14:38:57 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	567 label Biography information for Lord Hain

518729

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Housing: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Price on 10 May (HL8062), whether that answer assumes that the United States Congress will accept a "fast-track" procedure for ratifying the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what assessment they have made of the likelihood of such a procedure being either endorsed or withdrawn by the new Congress in 2017.
tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
uin	HL23
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>Legislation to re-authorise Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – sometimes called “fast track” – the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, was signed into law by President Obama on 29 June 2015. It will apply to certain international trade agreements – including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – if agreement is reached before 1 July 2018.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 01/06/2016 11:37:59 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

518734

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Proceeds of Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions for failure by employers to pay the National Minimum Wage have been undertaken since the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 came into force; what plans they have to improve the legal enforcement of the National Minimum Wage; and when those improvements will come into effect.
tabling member printed	Lord Kinnock
uin	HL28
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2016 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) Act there have been 9 prosecutions for NMW offences.</p><p> </p><p>However, prosecutions are not necessarily the best approach in most cases. Criminal sanctions against companies mean that employees – the ultimate beneficiaries of enforcing the NMW – end up waiting longer for their lost earnings to be paid back.</p><p> </p><p>From April this year we increased the civil penalties incurred by non-compliant workers to 200% of the arrears owed to the worker, up to a maximum of £20,000 per worker – having recently increased the penalty cap from £5,000 per employer. We have also increased the enforcement budget for the National Minimum and Living Wage to £20 million for this year, up from £13.2 million in 2015/16. The additional funds will be used to bolster HMRC’s resources through an increase in the number of compliance officers available to investigate NMW abuses, as well as to conduct risk-based enforcement in sectors or areas where there is a higher risk of workers not being paid the legal minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p>We will also continue to publically name and shame eligible employers in Government press notices. We expect this tobe a deterrent to employers who would otherwise be tempted not to pay the NMW, but also an incentive for all employers to make sure that they are consistent with the law.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/06/2016 14:28:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	693 label Biography information for Lord Kinnock

518739

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to publish the completion rates for apprentices across all apprenticeship frameworks and standards, disaggregated by gender, in the light of the recent report by the Young Women's Trust suggesting that female apprentices in male dominated sectors such as engineering, IT and construction are less likely to complete their apprenticeship.
tabling member printed	Baroness Nye
uin	HL33
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>Apprenticeship achievement rates disaggregated by framework and gender are published on the GOV.UK website by the Skills Funding Agency in the National Achievement Rate Tables (formerly National Success Rate Tables).</p><p> </p><p>The dataset is too large to attach to this response but is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sfa-national-achievement-rates-tables-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sfa-national-achievement-rates-tables-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p><p>However, table 1 shows overall achievement rates by gender in 2014/15.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship Overall Achievement Rates by Gender, 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Overall Cohort</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overall Achievement Rate %</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Female</p></td><td><p>192,310</p></td><td><p>71.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Male</p></td><td><p>170,950</p></td><td><p>71.7</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 01/06/2016 11:48:04 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4180 label Biography information for Baroness Nye

518746

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Gaza: Electricity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the comments by the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, quoted in The Sunday Times on 8 May, that "the Zionist bashing" at universities "has gone unchallenged".
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL40
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that there is absolutely no place in higher education or anywhere else in society for bigotry, hatred or any form of racism such as anti-Semitism.</p><p> </p><p>Recent reports of anti-Semitism are extremely concerning and must be met with a decisive response. We expect all universities and all bodies with a role in English higher education to be absolutely clear in their opposition to racism in all its forms, and to have robust policies in place to tackle such hatred and support victims.</p><p> </p><p>At the Government’s request, Universities UK has set up a taskforce to examine what more can be done to tackle harassment and hate crime on campus, and this includes anti-Semitism within its remit.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 23/05/2016 13:34:58 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

518747

registered interest
date	18/05/2016
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	Gaza: Egypt
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park on 4 May (HL8001), whether they have requested that the taskforce set up by Universities UK includes members of those minorities subject to harassment and hate crime, representatives of the relevant law and order agencies, and independent members with no direct university involvement.
tabling member printed	Lord Patten
uin	HL41
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2016 answer text <p>The taskforce, established by Universities UK, is looking at all forms of violence and harassment affecting students. Its task is to bring together students, university experts and external organisations to consider the current evidence and what universities are currently doing to address issues of harassment and hate crime, including anti-Semitism, and what more needs to be done.</p><p> </p><p>The taskforce have had meetings with or received evidence from a wide range of organisations which includes the Union of Jewish Students, Rape Crisis, Tell Mama and Stonewall. In regards to anti-Semitism, the Taskforce has also received evidence from the Jewish Leadership Council, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and Community Security Trust. In terms of law and order agencies, evidence has been received from a number of lawyers and from the police via PAHELO (Police Association of Higher Education Liaison Officers).</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 23/05/2016 13:37:43 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten