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63465

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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 Tribunals Service
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 times his Department has appeared at an employment tribunal to contest protective awards in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	202008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has not appeared before an employment tribunal to contest a protective award.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Protective awards are determined by Employment Tribunals following applications made by former employees or their representatives.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BIS is sometimes joined as a respondent in protective award claims, because under legislation, the Secretary of State guarantees the payment of protective awards made in favour of employees whose employer is insolvent, up to a certain amount.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is for the Tribunal to establish the facts in each case, considering evidence of the actions taken by employers and their representatives, and decide whether there was adequate consultation on redundancies BIS is not in a position to know the extent to which an employer or their representative consulted with employees and does not give evidence on that point nor take any particular position.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>BIS' responsibility is to establish what payments are due and who is entitled to receive them. We therefore make written representations to the tribunal on points of law or to seek clarification of who is covered by a protective award. We may appeal an award, but only if we consider that the tribunal has made the judgment based on an incorrect reading of the legislation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of cases where BIS has made representations to an employment tribunal regarding protective award cases in the last 5 years is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/06/2014 16:36:52 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

63464

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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	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 times the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has made payments in cases where Deloitte was appointed the administrator in each of the last five years; how many such cases also involved payments made for protective awards; and how much was paid out for (a) statutory entitlements and (b) protective awards in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	202007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the last five years, the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Services have paid £77,233,534.54 in statutory entitlements, in 173 cases where Deloitte was appointed the administrator or liquidator.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Of these cases, 20 cases resulted in protective award judgments totalling £6,930,864.72 paid from the National Insurance Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Due to the number of cases, it is not possible to disclose how much was paid in each individual case so a total has been provided instead.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/06/2014 15:18:20 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

64876

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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	Woolworths
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 30 June 2014, Official Report, columns 464W, on insolvency, how much the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service paid in relation to the collapse of Woolworths; and how much of that amount was paid in respect of protective awards.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	203335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has paid out a total of £59,207,942.40 to the former employees of Woolworths, and of this, £18,188,224.54 was paid in respect of protective awards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 13:51:18 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77005

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Directors
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 directors have been disqualified in the first quarter of the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>A total of 341 directors were disqualified during the first quarter of this financial year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 14:14:50 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77007

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Insolvency Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to which offices in the Insolvency Service he plans to recruit administrative staff over the next 18 months.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service reviews its staffing requirements on a regular basis and responds to local needs as and when they arise. There are plans to recruit administrative staff in the following locations: Plymouth and/or Exeter; London; and Birmingham. This includes apprenticeships recruited in accordance with Civil Service Employee Policy guidance and through the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme.</p><p>Overall workforce plans will be reviewed in the autumn, once the outcome of the current voluntary redundancy scheme is known and a better assessment of the agency's workload can be made in the light of the number of insolvency cases in the first 5 months of the year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 13:48:39 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77004

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Official Receiver
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 disqualification reports were submitted by the Leeds, Sheffield and Hull Official Receiver's offices in the year ending 31 March 2014; and what the target is for the combined Leeds office for the year ending 31 March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Service records disqualification report submissions by Official Receiver Command and not by location. A Command is overseen by a single Official Receiver and, currently, The Service has 18 Commands based over between one and three geographic locations.</p><p>Successful submissions for the year ended 31 March 2014:</p><ul><li>Humber and East Yorkshire Command (Hull): 18 reports authorised to proceed;</li><li>Northern Command (Leeds): 4 reports authorised to proceed;</li><li>East Midlands and South Yorkshire Command (Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield): 27 reports authorised to proceed.</li></ul><p> </p><p>From 1 April 2014 the East Midlands and South Yorkshire Command became East Midlands Command; with Sheffield transferred into the Northern Command. Northern Command has a target of 12 disqualification reports submitted and authorised to proceed in the year ending 31 March 2015.</p><p>In November 2014, with the closure of the Hull office, the Humber and East Yorkshire Command will be amalgamated with the Northern Command. A revised target for successful disqualification submissions for the combined Command has not yet been set and will be established as part of routine planning later in the year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 14:18:03 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77006

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Official Receiver
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 disqualification reports have been submitted by Official Receiver's offices in the first quarter of the current financial year.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>A total of 76 disqualification reports were submitted by Official Receivers' offices in the first quarter of this financial year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 14:12:32 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77002

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Official Receiver: Leeds
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 desks there were in the Leeds Official Receiver's Office on 30 June 2014; and how many such desks were are unoccupied.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>As of the 30 June 2014, the total number of desks in the Leeds Official Receiver's office is 124. The total number of unoccupied desks is 52.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 14:10:13 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

77003

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Official Receiver: Leeds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how long the lease for the Leeds Official Receiver's Office has left to run; and when it was signed.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	205078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The lease for the Leeds Official Receiver's Office started on 28 August 2003 and will end on 27 August 2018.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 14:08:28 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

101018

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Deloitte
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 the Insolvency Service has made of the performance of Deloitte as an appointed administrator in collective redundancy consultation.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	211982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Responsibility for assessing the conduct and performance of insolvency practitioners in their role as Administrators falls to the Regulatory Professional Body of which they are a member. The role of the Secretary of State, through the Insolvency Service, is to ensure that these bodies are effectively undertaking their regulatory functions.</p><p> </p><p>In June 2014, an Employment Tribunal judgement was handed down which was critical of the role of the Administrators (from Deloitte) in their handling of redundancies involving approximately 6,500 employees following the collapse of Comet, a large national retailer of electrical goods. The judgement was referred by the Insolvency Service to the Administrators’ Regulatory Professional Body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales for consideration of disciplinary action. That investigation is currently on-going.</p><p> </p><p>An Employment Tribunal had previously made criticisms of the Administrators of WW Realisations 1 Limited formerly known as Woolworths (also from Deloitte). That matter was also referred by the Insolvency Service to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales for consideration. No disciplinary action was taken as a result of that investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/10/2014 15:34:24 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson