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	registered interest
	date	03/06/2016
	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	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answers of 1 June 2016 to Questions 38139 and 38140, how much of the £10.3 million of minimum wage arrears recovered in 2015-16 was recovered from the 85 employers who did not respond to the National Minimum Wage campaign announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015 but were not issued with a Notice of Underpayment and did not have to pay a penalty; and how many workers were identified as having been underpaid by those 85 employers.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	39267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>In 2015/16 a total of 145 employers found to be non-compliant with National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation were not issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU) or a financial penalty for any of the arrears they owed.</p><p>56 of these employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £742,587 owed to 4875 workers through the campaign announced by HM Revenue &amp; Customs on 29 July 2015.</p><p>83 of these employers, owing a combined total of £841,282 to 8768 workers, were not issued with an NoU or penalty for other reasons. For instance, HMRC will not issue a notice of underpayment where complainant workers have entered into a compromise agreement with the employer, or in cases where pay liabilities have been transferred to a new employer under the terms of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (1981).</p><p>In addition, HMRC were also notified in 2015/16 of a further 6 employers who owed £482,005 of arrears to 412 workers. These were additional arrears related to cases originally closed in 2014/15.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/09/2016 09:35:04 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

535464

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	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	Business: EU Law
	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 work his Department is undertaking on identifying EU regulations that have a cost to British businesses that could be repealed or replaced.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	42469
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>In the short term, the Government will continue to seek the amendment or repeal of EU rules within the framework of the European Commission’s Regulatory Fitness (REFIT) programme, in order to minimise the regulatory burdens imposed on UK businesses. The REFIT programme was established in 2012 to review the stock of existing EU legislation in order to identify burdens, inconsistencies, gaps or ineffective measures and address them.</p><p> </p><p>Building on the work of the Red Tape Challenge and the current Cutting Red Tape programme, we will continue our engagement with business to gather their views on their priorities for reducing EU regulatory burdens wherever possible once the UK has left the EU. My Rt Hon Friend the former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Member for Bromsgrove (Sajid Javid) chaired a roundtable with business leaders, to discuss the challenges faced by businesses and ensure that the negotiation of the UK’s future relationship with the EU is carried out in the interest of UK companies, investors, potential investors and workers.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 12:47:11 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

535469

	registered interest
	date	12/07/2016
	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	EU Grants and Loans: Liverpool City Region
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding from the (a) European Regional Development Fund and (b) European Social Fund was spent in (i) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (ii) each borough of the Liverpool City Region in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	42527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>Information is not held for individual constituencies or boroughs. Figures are recorded for Merseyside and are from the 2007-13 programming period where projects could spend money up to the end of 2015, with some reimbursements taking place in 2016.</p><p> </p><p>The figures for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£m Merseyside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>£77.30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£25.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£28.80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£27.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£29.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£21.60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£33.50</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£20.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£263.65</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>For the European Social Fund (ESF) figures as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>£m Merseyside</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>£44.04</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>£20.58</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>£11.61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>£8.75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>£7.70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>£9.93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>£0.29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£102.90</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 13:03:07 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

536188

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the introduction of the new minimum wage on (a) evening and weekend working pay rates for women and (b) gender pay equality.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	uin	42657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>The Government has published an impact assessment on the introduction of the National Living Wage here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/3/pdfs/ukia_20160003_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/3/pdfs/ukia_20160003_en.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, more recent HM Treasury analysis[1] shows that the National Living Wage is expected to eradicate the gender pay gap for the lowest paid (at the 10<sup>th</sup> percentile) by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/today-britain-gets-a-pay-rise-thanks-to-the-national-living-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/today-britain-gets-a-pay-rise-thanks-to-the-national-living-wage</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:01:08 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

536224

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	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	Apprentices: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether anyone over 25 who is participating in an apprenticeship is entitled to the National Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	42732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>Apprentices aged 25 and over who have completed the first year of an apprenticeship must be paid at least the National Living Wage, currently set at £7.20.</p><p> </p><p>More information on the National Living Wage is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:04:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

539722

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whom he has appointed as his special advisers.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	43194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>A list of Special Advisers in Government will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 12:58:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

539729

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	Employment: Yorkshire and the Humber
	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 he is taking to protect employment levels in the Yorkshire and Humber region from the potential (a) immediate and (b) short to long-term effects of the UK withdrawing from the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Calder Valley
	tabling member printed	Craig Whittaker
	uin	43113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>The employment rate is at a record high. Government is committed to ensuring that UK remains open for business, and continues to grow and thrive. Our recent UK Innovation survey report confirms business innovation is growing across the UK and Yorkshire and Humber leads the way as the most innovative region. Government has awarded £1.19 billion in Growth Deals to the Local Enterprise Partnerships in the region so far which is forecast to attract £1.62 billion of co-investment and create 39,000 jobs.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:07:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3940 label Biography information for Craig Whittaker

539734

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	British Airways: Conditions of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will investigate whether TUPE provisions have been applied to British Airways IT workers' jobs that have been outsourced in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	42998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>When a business changes owner, TUPE regulations may apply. Outsourcing part of their business is a commercial decision taken by British Airways and it is not a matter for the Government to investigate such decisions.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 12:53:03 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

539738

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	Companies: Registration
	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 information his Department holds on the level of address fraud in the registration of companies; and if his Department will seek to review the process and legislation for the registration of companies in order to avoid such fraud in future.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	43058
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/08/2016 answer text <p>As part of its responsibility for maintaining the UK companies register, Companies House undertake some basic checks on companies during the incorporation process. The Government has no current plans to require additional processes and checks before registration.</p><p> </p><p>Companies House maintains statistics on the nature of the complaints it receives about alleged address fraud.</p><p> </p><p>Companies House follows up on all complaints received about newly incorporated companies and works closely with law enforcement agencies where fraudulent activity is suspected. It is an offence under the Companies Act to submit false information to Companies House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 25/08/2016 12:49:42 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

539825

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	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	Conditions of Employment: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans to ensure that UK employment rights continue to comply with EU standards.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	43234
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>There will be no immediate changes to our relationship with the EU. While we remain a full member of the EU, we will exercise our rights and meet our obligations as a member of the EU accordingly, including existing directives on employment rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:16:07 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 8028 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis