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41154

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the level of underemployment.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	902867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 06/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ 902867.pdf title Underemployment - ONS Letter
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1059869

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Salisbury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the criteria were for the Government decision to allocate the city of Salisbury a ministerial champion in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	220212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The unprecedented nerve agent attack in Salisbury and subsequent incident in Amesbury was an act of aggression on UK soil, with the hazardous agent involved resulting in the contamination of multiple sites across Salisbury and Amesbury and the tragic death of Dawn Sturgess.</p><p> </p><p>The attack has resulted in an estimated loss of over 1 million visits to Salisbury which is a key tourist attraction in the region, and a potential loss to the local economy of £56 million. With the imminent completion of decontamination activity, the Department has agreed with Defra, Cabinet Office and other key partners that the focus should now move towards building confidence and long-term economic recovery.</p><p> </p><p>In recognition of these unprecedented events, my noble Friend the rt. hon. the Lord Henley in his role as Local Growth Champion for Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) which includes the boundaries of Salisbury and Amesbury has agreed to act as the ongoing single Ministerial point of contact within Government for the leaders of Wilshire Council so that they may continue to raise any legacy issues arising at a political level.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 19/02/2019 16:33:54 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1062030

	registered interest
	date	15/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Salisbury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps are being taken as part of the long-term programme that has been developed to reposition Salisbury after the Novichok attack last year; and what the objectives of that programme are.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	222007
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The Department is supporting the aspiration of Wiltshire Council to move the narrative away from the incidents and decontamination activity and look to the future for the city and South Wiltshire.</p><p> </p><p>Wiltshire Council are in the early stages of developing a longer-term strategy to further promote recovery and ensure the sustainability of growth in Salisbury and South Wiltshire. Visitor numbers need to be supported to increase to pre-incident levels and wider support and investment in Salisbury and across South Wiltshire is needed to ensure the area retains its status an attractive location for tourists, businesses and investors.</p><p> </p><p>The strategy will focus on local community and wellbeing; economy and regeneration; infrastructure, tourism and culture, with key elements expected to help inform the wider Swindon and Wiltshire Local Industrial Strategy which will be published by March 2020.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 20/02/2019 17:34:49 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

179062

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2015
	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	Zero Hours Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what definition the Government uses for classifying a zero hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	223955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>There is no legal definition of a zero hours contract in UK domestic employment law. In general terms a zero hours contract is an arrangement under which an employer does not guarantee the individual any work, and the individual is not obliged to accept any work offered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ONS in their Labour Force Survey describe a zero hours contract as a contract ‘where a person is not contracted to work a set number of hours, and is only paid for the number of hours that they actually work’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/02/2015 11:48:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

222865

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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	Children: Day Care
	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 (a) men and (b) women in further education received funding for childcare through the (i) Discretionary Learner Support scheme and (ii) Care to Learn scheme in the last academic year; and what the total amount spent on such support was in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	224914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Childcare funding is provided though the Discretionary Learner Support Scheme to support learners aged 20 or above who are at risk of not starting learning or not continuing learning as a result of childcare difficulties. Providers declared that spending in the academic year 13/14 was £44.3m. The Skills Funding Agency estimates that this supported around 7000 full time and 7500 part-time learners. Recent research indicates that 97% of the funding is awarded to female learners.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care to Learn scheme is an Education Funding Agency scheme. 39 men and 5,592 women received help with their childcare costs from the Care to Learn scheme in the 2013 to 2014 academic year. The amount spent on childcare costs in that academic year was £24,262,979. This figure covers childcare costs, associated travel payment and summer retainers (which can be paid to hold childcare places over the summer holiday period if the qualifying criteria are met).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2015 14:58:57 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

228339

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	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	Offenders: Literacy
	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 literacy courses were enrolled on by offenders assessed as having a literacy need in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	228241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p> </p><p>Information for each academic year since 2010/11 on prisoner participation in English and maths is published in the FE data library (first link) as a supplementary table (second link) to a Statistical First Release.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of prisoners participating who were assessed as having a literacy need was not recorded for these years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382079/feandskills-OLASS-participation-and-achievement.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382079/feandskills-OLASS-participation-and-achievement.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 23/03/2015 15:14:59 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

391271

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	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	Export Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what value of export credit guarantees has supported (a) ship manufacturing and (b) marine engineering in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	8001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Between financial years 2005/6 to 2014/15 inclusive, UK Export Finance has provided support with a value of £501.7m for export contracts related to the shipbuilding and marine engineering sectors. These figures are broken down by category and year in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Shipbuilding</p></td><td><p>Marine Engineering</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/7</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/8</p></td><td><p>£276.3m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£276.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/9</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£12.1m</p></td><td><p>£12.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£22.6m</p></td><td><p>£22.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£6.9m</p></td><td><p>£24.1m</p></td><td><p>£31m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£6.4m</p></td><td><p>£1.2m</p></td><td><p>£7.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£8m</p></td><td><p>£143.9m</p></td><td><p>£151.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>£297.7m</p></td><td><p>£204m</p></td><td><p>£501.7m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: UKEF Annual Accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/09/2015 14:29:03 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

426263

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government plans to take to ensure that more women progress to senior levels in the financial services industry.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	14728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>As part of the Productivity Plan, the Government has asked Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO of Virgin Money, to lead a review into representation of women in senior managerial roles in the financial services industry. Her review will report next year.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 09/11/2015 14:16:02 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

426264

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Females
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans the Government has to support the recommendation made in the review led by Jayne-Anne Gadhia on women in finance that pay packages for executives be linked to a financial services firm's gender balance.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	14729
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2015 answer text <p>The government welcomes Jayne-Anne Gadhia’s work to date and will consider the final recommendations when the review reports next year.</p><br /> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 09/11/2015 14:16:59 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

438131

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Emergency Services: Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, by when the Government expects to have compiled a list of all people eligible to receive payments as a result of the decision by the Pensions Ombudsman in the case of Mr. W. Milne.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	19910
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>Payments to individuals affected by the ruling are being administered by relevant fire and rescue authorities and police forces. I understand that authorities have identified all affected individuals and are in the process of calculating the payments due. This Government is committed to ensuring a timely resolution to this issue.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/12/2015 14:07:02 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern