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388850

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Growth Hubs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Answer of 6 March 2015 to Question 225778, how many Growth Hubs are currently in operation; where each such hub is located and whether it has premises; when each such hub began operation; what public monies have been provided for each such hub; and what plans his Department has for further Growth Hubs in other local enterprise partnership areas.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	6423
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>There are currently 26 growth hubs across England. 13 new growth hubs will launch by March 2016, when there will be a growth hub available in every 39 LEP area. Details of the country’s growth hubs can be found on the LEP network website.</p><p> </p><p>The first growth hub was created in Greater Manchester in November 2011, followed by Cumbria in 2013. 15 Wave 2 City areas received funding to help establish growth hubs during 2014-15 and all areas outside London will receive funding during 2015-16 as part of their Local Growth Deal. Details of growth deal funding can be found on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>LEP Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Growth Deals 2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black Country</p></td><td><p>£400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckinghamshire Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>£350,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire &amp; Warrington</p></td><td><p>£350,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coast to Capital</p></td><td><p>£450,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall &amp; Isles of Scilly</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry and Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>£400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>D2N2</p></td><td><p>£525,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enterprise M3</p></td><td><p>£350,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucester &amp; Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Birmingham &amp; Solihull</p></td><td><p>£625,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Cambridge &amp; Peterborough</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Lincoln &amp; Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>£625,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heart of the South West</p></td><td><p>£400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester &amp; Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>£350,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>£400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds City Region</p></td><td><p>£625,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p>£550,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Anglia</p></td><td><p>£350,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>£500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oxford &amp; Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield City Region</p></td><td><p>£500,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solent</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>£800,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Midlands</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent &amp; Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon &amp; Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley Berkshire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Marches</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West of England</p></td><td><p>£400,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Worcestershire</p></td><td><p>£250,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York, North Yorkshire &amp; East Riding</p></td><td><p>£300,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 20/07/2015 13:22:14 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

388846

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Cost Effectiveness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what savings he forecasts will be made from funds allocated by his Department to support energy-intensive industries.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	6421
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>As stated in the answer of 15 June 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-06-11/2125/" target="_blank">2125</a>, savings were made in this area by identifying and surrendering funds that the government intended, but could not use, to extend compensation to several additional sectors this year. As we were still waiting for industry to provide the data to make our case for reviewing the European Commission’s state aid guidelines it was not possible to provide that support.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 14:11:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

388835

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Ministerial Policy Advisers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the name, responsibilities and pay band are of each special adviser in his Department.
	tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	tabling member printed	Stuart Blair Donaldson
	uin	6320
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office gave on 13<sup>th</sup> July 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-07-07/5983/" target="_blank">5983</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/07/2015 14:44:01 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4377 label Biography information for Stuart Blair Donaldson

388844

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Billing
	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 23 June 2015 to Question 3264, how many businesses were not paid within 10 days of each month; what the value was of those invoices (a) in total, (b) on average and (c) as a proportion of the total value of all invoices.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	6413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2015 answer text <p>Please note that an anomaly has been identified in the data originally given to Question 3264 and the correct data is given below for both March and April 2015. We are unable to provide the number of <strong>separate businesses</strong> not paid within 10 days of each calendar month but have provided the <strong>number of invoices</strong> in this regard.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Core BIS - March 2015:</strong></p><p>Percentage under 10 calendar days – 97.84%</p><p>Number of invoices not paid within 10 calendar days – 182</p><p>Total value of invoices paid over 10 calendar days - £2,375,600.19</p><p>Average value of invoice paid over 10 calendar days - £13,052.75</p><p>Proportion of the total value of all invoices paid over 10 calendar days – 0.108%</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Core BIS - April 2015:</strong></p><p>Percentage under 10 calendar days – 98.26%</p><p>Number of invoice not paid within 10 calendar days – 131</p><p>Total value of invoices paid over 10 calendar days - £2,963,175.51</p><p>Average value of invoice paid over 10 calendar days - £22,619.66</p><p>Proportion of the total value of all invoices paid over 10 calendar days - 0.042%</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 17/07/2015 10:40:46 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

388837

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Insolvency
	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 complaints about (a) pre-pack sales and (b) connected party pre-pack sales were received in each year from 2010 to 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	6360
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service does not have complete data for pre-pack complaints ahead of the establishment of the Complaint Gateway in June 2013, which sought to give greater transparency around the complaint process.</p><p> </p><p>There have been nine complaints about insolvency practitioners relating to a pre-pack administration received by the Complaints Gateway between June 2013 and December 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Complaints data is not broken down between connected and non-connected pre-pack sales.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 14:12:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

388836

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Small Businesses: Non-domestic Rates
	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 assessment he has made of the effect of business rates on micro-businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Wealden
	tabling member printed	Nusrat Ghani
	uin	6340
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2015 answer text <p>The government recognises that business rates represent a fixed cost which can be more burdensome during times of economic difficulty, particularly for small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This is why, at Autumn Statement 2014, the Chancellor announced a £1 billion package of business rates support measures, with a focus on small businesses.</p><p> </p><p>This package included doubling the Small Business Rate Relief scheme until April 2016 supporting 575,000 businesses operating from single small properties.</p><p> </p><p>The impact of business rates on the smallest businesses is also one of the issues that will be considered under the fundamental review of the business rates system which the Chancellor launched in March 2015 and is due to report by the end of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/07/2015 14:13:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani

388843

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2015
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of invoices from suppliers his Department paid within 10 days of receipt in (a) March 2014, (b) April 2014, (c) September 2014 and (d) September 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	6412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2015 answer text <p>The proportion of invoices from suppliers paid within 10 days of receipt by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills were as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>a) March 2014 - 98.73%</p><p> </p><p>b) April 2014 - 98.57%</p><p> </p><p>c) September 2014 - 98.33%</p><p> </p><p>d) September 2013 - 99.14%</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 17/07/2015 10:39:31 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown