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532398

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2016
	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, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to answer Question 39267, tabled by the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion on 3 June 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	41740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2016 answer text <p>I have done so.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/09/2016 09:35:30 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 6205 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

521067

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	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	Minimum Wage
	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 14 September 2015 to Question 8859, how many employers took advantage of the National Minimum Wage campaign announced on 30 July 2015 to self-report their non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage; how many workers were identified as having been underpaid by those employers; and what the total sum was of arrears recovered for those workers.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	38140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">In total</ins> 60 employers responded to the National Minimum Wage campaign announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015. <del class="ministerial">Between them, these employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £786,038 owed to 4869 workers.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">56 employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £742,587 owed to 4875 workers. A further 4 employers voluntarily also disclosed arrears of £43,451 owed to 36 workers, but since these latter cases were closed after 1 April 2016, these arrears are not included in 2015/16 year end totals. </ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 01/06/2016 10:27:52 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2016 16:12:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 1385 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

521066

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	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	Minimum Wage
	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 10 May 2016 to Question 36447, how much of the £10.3 million of minimum wage arrears recovered in 2015-16 was recovered from the 145 employers who were not issued with a Notice of Underpayment and who did not have to pay a penalty.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	38139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">60 employers responded to the National Minimum Wage campaign announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015. Between them, these employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £786,038 owed to 4869 workers.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In 2015/16 819 employers were issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU), and of this number, 814 were issued with a penalty. The combined penalties issued to these employers totalled £1,780,367.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">5 employers were issued with an NoU but no penalty because they had either gone into liquidation or had otherwise ceased trading, or because an Employment Tribunal had issued a judgment that no financial penalty should be imposed. Collectively these employers owed £57,603 to 30 workers. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">A further 145 employers found to have underpaid their workers were not issued with a NoU or a penalty. Collectively these employers owed £2,065,874 to 14,055 workers.</ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 01/06/2016 10:27:14 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2016 16:12:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 1387 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

677637

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2017
	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 Agency Standards Inspectorate: Finance
	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 budget of the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate has been in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
	tabling member printed	Tim Farron
	uin	61285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funding</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>£932,000 (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£697,631 (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£551,461 (actual spend)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£532,032*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>Not available **</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>£500,000*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* This is the budget allocated for these financial years, as actual spend is not available.</p><p> </p><p>**The Employment Agency Standards budget was held at a higher level of aggregation and managed across a number of different programmes, so we are unable to provide a figure for that financial year.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 26/01/2017 14:19:46 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

658027

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2016
	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: Staff
	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 there is a representative of his Department's employees on its departmental board; and what plans he has to provide for additional stakeholder representation on that board.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	57514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2016 answer text <p>Yes, employees are represented on the Department’s board. The Permanent Secretary is a standing member of the Departmental Board, and meets with the Departmental Trade Unions as staff representatives.</p><p> </p><p>There are several other ways in which the views of employees of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy are currently already taken into account by the Departmental Board and its supporting committees.</p><p> </p><p>The Board regularly discusses staff related matters, such as the Civil Service People Survey results which reflect the views of the Department’s employees, including views on the transition programme to create a new Department.</p><p> </p><p>The Department’s governance structure includes a People and Operations Committee, chaired by the Directors General responsible for People, Corporate Services and the transition programme. This Committee has standing representation from the HR Director and staff diversity networks as full members. Recommendations from the Committee are routinely taken to the Department’s Executive Committee for endorsement and approval.</p><p> </p><p>The composition of the Departmental Board is determined by Cabinet Office and HMT’s <em>Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good practice</em> (2011). Cabinet Office and HMT are currently in the process of refreshing this guidance to reflect current best practice.</p><p> </p><p>The Board also has external Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs) as standing members. NEBMs provide external challenge and scrutiny and offer wider stakeholder views to the Board.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/12/2016 14:52:42 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

657329

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2016
	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	ACAS: Staff
	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 plans he has for the future staffing of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
	tabling member constituency	Norwich South
	tabling member printed	Clive Lewis
	uin	57267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>Workforce planning for the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) is based on maintaining approximately the same number of staff as at present.</p><p> </p><p>As is the case for other public bodies, Acas has not yet had confirmation of financial allocations for future years. Acas may need to reflect any material changes to those allocations in its subsequent workforce planning.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/12/2016 16:37:47 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4500 label Biography information for Clive Lewis

714233

	registered interest
	date	27/03/2017
	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	Social Services: 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, what analysis he has undertaken on the effect of the national living wage on the cost to the adult social care sector of employing staff on sleep-in contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Devizes
	tabling member printed	Claire Perry
	uin	69322
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2017 answer text <p>Workers who are required to be available to perform work as and when called upon are entitled to the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) for the entire shift if they are deemed to be “working”. This remains the case, even if they are permitted to sleep during that shift.</p><p> </p><p>The Government asks the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to monitor and evaluate the impact of the National Minimum and National Living Wage rates. The LPC carry out extensive research, consultation and analysis across a range of sectors to inform its wage rate recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>The LPC autumn 2016 report, summarises its consultation with business stakeholders on the impact of the NLW and NMW. The report is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-minimum-wage-low-pay-commission-autumn-2016-report" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-minimum-wage-low-pay-commission-autumn-2016-report</a></p><p> </p><p>The Government also produces analysis of the NMW/NLW rates in its Impact Assessment, this projected that around 126,000 workers are affected by the April 2017 rate rises (p79). Available here - <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/465/impacts" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/465/impacts</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 04/04/2017 16:49:38 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry

713838

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2017
	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	Carers: Leave
	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 consider making provision for grandparents and other carers to be entitled to up to 10 days statutory leave to provide emergency care for a grandchild or other dependant.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	69070
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>Workers in the UK are entitled to a minimum of 28 days paid annual leave if they work full time and a proportionate amount if they work part time. Grandparents may also be able exercise the Right to Time Off for Dependents which allows employees to take a reasonable amount of time off work to deal with certain unexpected or sudden emergencies involving a dependant and to put care arrangements in place.</p><p>The Government is developing a new national Carers Strategy, which will consider the range of issues faced by people who provide unpaid care for a relative, friend or someone close to them.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/03/2017 09:10:43 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

756766

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: 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, with reference to the Government's paper, Corporate Governance Reform, published on 29 August 2017, whether the publication of pay multiples will apply solely to the CEO of a company.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	8198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Work is underway to bring forward legislative proposals for pay ratio reporting as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The pay ratio reporting requirement is intended to apply to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company and to be determined by reference to the single figure for total remuneration receivable by the CEO that quoted companies are required to disclose annually (along with the pay of other directors).</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 8199 question first answered 12/09/2017 07:47:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 8978 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

756767

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	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: 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, with reference to the Government's paper, Corporate Governance Reform, published on 29 August 2017, whether annual pay ratio reporting will require the reporting of exact pay and remuneration.
	tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
	tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
	uin	8199
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Work is underway to bring forward legislative proposals for pay ratio reporting as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>The pay ratio reporting requirement is intended to apply to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company and to be determined by reference to the single figure for total remuneration receivable by the CEO that quoted companies are required to disclose annually (along with the pay of other directors).</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 8198 question first answered 12/09/2017 07:47:52 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 8979 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey