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62182

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Sunday Trading Act 1994
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received from UK retailers on the effect of the Sunday Trading Act 1994 on their businesses.
tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
tabling member printed	Roger Williams
uin	201116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has received representations from a number of correspondents in the last 12 months on Sunday Trading. These include representations from Asda Stores Ltd, Horticulture Trades Association and shopping centres advocating further liberalisation, as well as others such as the Association of Convenience Stores, some large retailers, 2 individual stores and small groups, supporting the current Sunday trading rules or for further restrictions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 23/06/2014 14:46:46 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1394 label Biography information for Roger Williams

62184

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Apprentices
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 people started apprenticeships in (a) Swindon and (b) the United Kingdom in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	North Swindon
tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
uin	200658
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of apprenticeship starts in England by geography is published in a Supplementary Table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298401/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298401/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p><p>The Department does not collect further education information relating to the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/06/2014 13:59:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

62185

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Bankruptcy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department has provided to companies facing bankruptcy in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	201035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department has a suite of business support packages available to companies whether or not they are facing an insolvency event.</p><p>In exceptional circumstances the Department can work with companies in difficulty to help find solutions to their needs. Any such support is commercially sensitive and is normally a matter between the Department and the company.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 24/06/2014 15:43:46 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

62186

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of former BAE staff at the Portsmouth shipyard who have been recruited by overseas ship-builders.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
uin	201062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><sub>The local taskforce is working to secure positive outcomes for all staff leaving BAE in Portsmouth. It is too early to draw conclusions.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub> </sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>We recognise the importance of manufacturing and engineering skills to the economy: these will be vital to building the Solent area's strengths in marine and maritime. BIS is working closely with industry, Job Centre Plus, and Portsmouth Council to support those employees impacted by BAE's decision to close its shipyard in Portsmouth.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>The Southampton &amp; Portsmouth City Deal announced a £1 million DWP Rapid Response Service that will support those recently made redundant. Government and local industry will invest £3m in a Marine and Maritime Employer Ownership for skills Programme, responding to the immediate skills needs in small and medium sized enterprises in the advanced manufacturing sector. </sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>Additionally the existing UK wide Talent Retention Solution is available to help match skilled workers to engineering jobs in the UK </sub><sub>and is currently advertising 693</sub><sub>vacancies in the south of England on its website</sub><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup><sub>.</sub></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1] Active TRS vacancies listed on 18 June 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 23/06/2014 17:00:13 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

62187

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment Agencies: Vetting
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with employment agencies on the practice of blacklisting.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
uin	200982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>Blacklisting is an unacceptable and illegal practice and we take any allegations of blacklisting very seriously. I have not had any discussions on the practice of blacklisting with employment agencies. We have referred the allegations made about an international recruitment agency to the Information Commissioner's Office which is looking into the matter.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 24/06/2014 15:46:22 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

62188

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Employment Agencies: Vetting
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 prevalence of blacklisting amongst employment agencies.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
uin	200983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>Blacklisting is an unacceptable and illegal practice and we take any allegations of blacklisting very seriously. We have always encouraged anyone with evidence of blacklisting to come forward so that we can investigate. Any evidence of blacklisting should be referred to the Information Commissioner's Office. Individuals who believe they are being excluded from employment because of a blacklist should seek redress in the county courts in England and Wales, or Court of Session in Scotland.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 24/06/2014 15:57:50 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

62189

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Exports: Syria
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether export licences to Syria have been granted for the period since 1 July 2012; and if he will describe any such material so exported.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Thomas Docherty
uin	200996
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Five Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) and one Open Individual Export Licence (OIEL) have been granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information provided relates to goods or services that have been licensed for export. The licences were granted to international and humanitarian organisations to support and protect staff working in these organisations. The six licences granted authorise export of the following:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>SIEL for: components for body armour;</p><p> </p><p>SIEL for: NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) protective/defensive equipment;</p><p> </p><p>SIEL for: body armour, components for body armour, military helmets;</p><p> </p><p>SIEL for: body armour, military helmets;</p><p> </p><p>SIEL for: components for all-wheel drive vehicles with ballistic protection;</p><p> </p><p>OIEL for: cryptographic software; equipment employing cryptography.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The licences were granted to international and humanitarian organisations to support and protect staff working in these organisations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 23/06/2014 17:01:33 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	3962 label Biography information for Thomas Docherty

62191

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Royal Mail: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of Royal Mail staff who bought shares in the newly-privatised company in (a) Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency, (b) Renfrewshire and (c) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
uin	200637
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government has not made any estimates by constituency, county or country of shares bought by Royal Mail staff.</p><p>As part of the Royal Mail Initial Public Offering, each eligible employee has now received 729 shares free of charge. Only 372 of the 147,000 eligible employees opted out of the scheme. Approximately 99.75% of employees accepted the shares that we offered them. Under the Employee Priority Retail Offer, over 15,000 employees (just over 10%) bought additional shares in Royal Mail.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 24/06/2014 15:55:07 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

62428

registered interest
date	17/06/2014
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
hansard heading	Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they are making on their consideration of (1) protection of metadata, (2) remedies against lookalikes, and (3) equalisation of penalties for physical and digital copyright infringement.
tabling member printed	Lord Clement-Jones
uin	HL366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong>(1)</strong> The issue of protection of metadata was considered as part of the industry-led Copyright Hub project, to which the Government contributed initial funding. This involved key players seeking cross-industry agreement to help keep metadata with copyright works and resulted in the publication of a voluntary Code of Practice on Creating and Maintaining Metadata in Images. It is clearly important for industry to take up that code of practice, before Government could consider whether or not any further action may be appropriate.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(2) </strong>The Government is considering the case for granting a civil right of action to business against lookalike packaging, for which it launched a review of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs). The Review commenced this spring, and the initial call for evidence closed on 19 May. The Government is keen to continue engaging with stakeholders on this issue; a structured roundtable has been scheduled for 14 July. The final report is expected to be published in October.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(3) </strong>The Intellectual Property Office has commissioned Inngot Ltd to carry out a review of the use of copyright infringement sanctions. The review has commenced and is expected to report in November. Data gathering for copyright infringement sentencing is already underway, with a broad range of industry stakeholders being consulted including trade bodies; IP rights owners and IP legal professionals. The Government will consider what further action is needed once the final report has been published.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 24/06/2014 16:32:44 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3396 label Biography information for Lord Clement-Jones