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99764

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent discussions there have been between the Director of Public Prosecutions and the head of the National Crime Agency about the capacity of both agencies to bring cases of downloading indecent images of children to justice; and what the conclusions of those discussions were.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	211050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Director of Public Prosecutions has regular bilateral meetings with the Director General of the National Crime Agency. There have been no recent discussions about the capacity of both agencies to bring cases of downloading indecent images of children to justice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is currently working with the police to roll out nationally the Child Abuse Image Database (CAID). The introduction of the CAID will allow the police and CPS to identify and prosecute more perpetrators.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 23/10/2014 11:02:28 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

99782

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: South East
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many small and medium-sized enterprises have premises in (a) Woking constituency, (b) Surrey and (c) the South East.
	tabling member constituency	Woking
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Lord
	uin	211119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 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 Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 23/10/2014 15:49:08 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 211119 ONS 357.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - SME's
	tabling member	4090 label Biography information for Mr Jonathan Lord

99783

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Jobcentre Plus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on mutualising Jobcentre Plus.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	211051
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>We have not supported any Job Centre to become a public service mutual. You can find the full list of public service mutuals at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/start-a-public-service-mutual-the-process" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/start-a-public-service-mutual-the-process</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 23/10/2014 15:47:14 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

99784

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Social Enterprises
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which social enterprise incubators outside London his Department supports.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
	tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
	uin	211134
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Cabinet Office has supported 10 incubators through its £10M Social Incubator Fund.</p><p>The incubators cover all areas of England, with six of the incubators located outside of London.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Incubator </strong></p></td><td><p> </p><p><strong>Geographical focus</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td>Social Incubator North</td><td><p>North of England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Incubator East</p></td><td><p>East of England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEEDbed</p></td><td><p>South West of England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dotforge</p></td><td><p>North of England</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Young Academy</p></td><td><p>London, Nottingham and Derby</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Solve</p></td><td><p>London and Birmingham / Black Country</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The other four incubators (Wayra UnLtd, Bethnal Green Ventures, Big Issue Invest's Corporate Social Venturing and Health Social Innovators’ Fund) are based in London but have a national focus.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 23/10/2014 15:48:06 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
	tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

99863

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Hereditary Diseases
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many infant deaths were caused by MCAD deficiency in (a) East Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) England in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Pendle
	tabling member printed	Andrew Stephenson
	uin	211015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 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 Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 23/10/2014 15:48:38 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 211015 ONS 359.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Infant Deaths
	tabling member	4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson

92787

	registered interest
	date	13/10/2014
	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	Directors: Equality
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what progress has been made with achieving diversity on corporate boards; and what percentages of (1) women, (2) disabled people, and (3) black and minority ethnic people there are on the boards of FTSE 100 companies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL2023
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Government has been supporting Lord Davies’ voluntary business-led strategy for the advancement of all women, irrespective of ethnicity or disability. These measures are working. Women now account for 22.8% of board members in FTSE100 companies, up from 12.5% in February 2011.And there are no all-male boards in the FTSE 100 down from 21 in 2011.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not collect statistics for, and FTSE 100 companies do not have to report on, the number of disabled or ethnic minorities on their boards.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In September 2014 The Financial Reporting Council published an updated UK Corporate Governance Code, including changes to the preface highlighting the importance of diversity on the board. This includes gender, race and a wide range of other factors including difference of approach and experience.</p><p> </p><p>On 30 September the Secretary fo Business Innovation and Skills also announced his support for a business led initiative to support wider ethnic diversity on boards.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/10/2014 16:37:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

93748

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
	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 the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme his Department has received in each year since the inception of that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	210872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Delivery of EFG is fully devolved to over 40 participating lenders, each of which has their own arrangements for handling customer complaints. The Department does not mediate in disputes between individual borrowers and lenders. Any business complaining to BIS or the British Business Bank is guided in the first instance to follow their lender’s complaints procedure. Upon exhaustion of that process the next step for dealing with an unresolved dispute in most instances will be to refer it to the Financial Ombudsman Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/10/2014 13:08:39 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93749

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
	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 applications to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme have been (a) submitted, (b) approved and (c) terminated following approval by his Department since the inception of that scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Delyn
	tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
	uin	210873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Delivery of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) is fully devolved to over 40 participating lenders. As such the Department for Business Innovation and Skills does not directly receive, approve or terminate any EFG applications.</p><p>Participating lenders do not report to the Department numbers of applications submitted or terminated. Since inception of the scheme in January 2009, participating lenders have made offers of 26,189 EFG-backed loans and other types of debt facilities.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/10/2014 13:09:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93750

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	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	Working Conditions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that companies are held responsible for labour conditions throughout their supply chains.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	210900
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Companies are held accountable by investors, consumers and civil society as well as governments for the way in which they conduct their operations, including labour conditions, and how they report on their actions in this regard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since October 2013, quoted companies have been required to provide information in their Annual Report about social, community and human rights issues, including information about any policies of the company in relation to those matters and the effectiveness of those policies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department has negotiated at the European level to strengthen current human rights disclosure requirements and make them more specific. Provisions have now been agreed that will apply across all EU Member States from 2017 to large quoted companies and Public Interest Entities. My Department will shortly be consulting on the transposition of these measures into UK law.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Additional disclosure requirements will be introduced in the Modern Slavery Bill. Big businesses will have to publicly state each year what action they have taken to ensure their supply chains are slavery free. This requirement goes further than any similar legislation in the world by applying to businesses regardless of the nature of a company or what it supplies, whether goods or services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In September 2013, the UK was the first country to publish a National Action Plan implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The Action Plan underlines the duty of businesses to respect the human rights of their employees and those in their supply chains. My Department is taking action to develop guidance for businesses reporting on this obligation, beginning with the retail sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In order to toughen up our enforcement of the National Minimum Wage my Department has made it simpler to name and shame employers that break the law on the National Minimum Wage and has increased the financial penalty that employers pay for breaking the law from 50 per cent to 100 per cent of the unpaid wages owed to workers. The maximum penalty has also increased from £5,000 to £20,000 and will be applied per worker not per firm.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 23/10/2014 16:23:04 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

93764

	registered interest
	date	16/10/2014
	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	Internet: Data Protection
	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 he has made of the potential for online personal information and big data to be used for discriminatory practices by organisations and agencies.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
	uin	210878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting the privacy and data security rights of individuals, and does recognise that the potential exists for online personal information and data to be misused by organisations and agencies, including for discriminatory purposes. For this reason, stringent safeguards are in place to ensure personal data is protected and handled appropriately.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Data Protection Act 1998 and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights impose clear legal limits on how organisations can record, store, alter, use or disclose personal data. In addition the Information Commissioners Office, the UK’s independent authority for upholding information rights, provides advice to citizens, rulings on eligible complaints and can take action when the law on data privacy is broken.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is also currently working with the Information Economy Council, business groups, regulators, the third sector, and consumer bodies to develop a framework of trust and privacy principles for businesses. The framework will be in addition to existing data protection legislation and is being developed to help create greater public confidence in how companies use and re-use their personal data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 23/10/2014 16:00:16 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown