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515916

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	British Home Stores: Insolvency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Statement by the Business Minister, Anna Soubry, on 25 April (HC Deb, col 1174), what assistance they plan to offer BHS or Retail Acquisitions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL7982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text Workers and their families will be worried by the news that BHS has been placed in the hands of administrators. The Administrator must secure the best possible result for the business, starting with rescuing it if possible as a going concern. If this does not prove possible, then we stand ready to help those affected, including through Jobcentre Plus’ Rapid Response Service, to help people move into new jobs as quickly as possible. answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 14:49:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

515890

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	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	Manufacturing Industries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the recent data from Begbies Traynor showing that the number of British manufacturers that are struggling financially has risen by 20 per cent.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL7956
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We have not made an assessment of this report. The UK has some of the best manufacturing in the world, and we are focussed on a competitive tax regime and supporting science and innovation to make the UK an even better place to do business. There are a number of global headwinds which are currently placing significant pressures on UK manufacturing, making it more important than ever that we stick to our long term economic plan for sustainable growth.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 15:00:37 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

515522

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	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	Insolvency
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will review the legislation protecting creditors in the event of business failure.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL7902
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We do keep insolvency legislation under review. We seek to ensure that the legislative framework strikes the right balance between rescuing a business, which may also save jobs, and the rights of creditors who may lose out financially.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 11:36:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

515929

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Horse Racing: Betting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who will select members of the proposed Racing Authority, and what the selection criteria will be for the appointees.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Hindhead
	uin	HL7995
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Under the replacement for the current Horserace Betting Levy a racing authority will be responsible for making decisions on spend in line with the overall purposes of the scheme. This body will be referred to in legislation but it will not be a statutory body. It will be for the racing industry to determine its governance arrangements.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 11:35:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4542 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Hindhead

516565

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Small Businesses: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to better inform small businesses about all aspects of intellectual property rights, including action that such businesses can take to protect such rights.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL8077
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) undertakes a wide range of activities to promote understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in order that they can make an informed decision on whether and how to protect, commercialise and enforce their IP.</p><p>IPO products and priority activities focus on:</p><p>a) Raising awareness of the importance of IP;</p><p>b) Improving the IP skills of business advisors and intermediaries;</p><p>c) Emphasising that IP is an essential element of an overall business strategy.</p><p>The offerings include online tools, face to face business and adviser training, and partnership delivery.</p><p>The numerous online resources are designed to help businesses to recognise their IP assets, to manage those assets effectively and to help businesses communicate the value of their IP portfolio to lenders or investors when seeking finance.</p><p>The IPO has a small team that runs UK seminars and workshops on IP for businesses and advisors and it also provides an intensive, commercially run training course to improve their understanding of IP.</p><p>It also works with partners within and outside government to ensure that businesses in every part of the UK can access good quality IP advice and understand the importance of managing their IP. Key partnerships include the UK PatLib Network and UK Business &amp; IP Centre Network as well as Business Growth Hubs</p><p>All these support activities provide guidance and information on how businesses may resolve IP disputes or take effective enforcement action. In addition, the UK overseas IP attachés work with local UK Trade and Investment and Foreign and Commonwealth Office leads to provide support for UK businesses seeking advice on local IP matters abroad.</p><p>I will place further information on these resources in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 14:45:08 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

516564

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2016
	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	Small Businesses: Intellectual Property
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have carried out research to ascertain the degree of awareness of small businesses about intellectual property rights.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
	uin	HL8076
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) IP Awareness Survey was first conducted in 2006 and was rerun in 2010 and early 2015. The survey establishes a sense of understanding of IP and IP rights across all sizes of UK firms and all sectors of UK industry. The most recent survey contained 3 sections: an IP knowledge section which tested the respondent's familiarity with IP, a management section which sought to discover how firms were administering IP within their organisation and a final section which focussed on where IP information and advice was sourced from.</p><p>Key findings include:</p><ul><li>94% of respondents thought that it was important for businesses to understand how to protect their IP.</li><li>52% of responding firms had protected some sort of IP (either through a single right or a combination).</li><li>65% of respondents thought that confidentiality agreements are important to protecting their IP. This method of protection was the most popular.</li><li>The majority of surveyed firms have not been involved in a dispute around IP, (over 75%).</li><li>96% of firms have not valued their IP.</li><li>79% of firms did not know that telling people about an invention before applying for a patent could lead to an unsuccessful application.</li><li>28% of firms check they are not infringing other people’s IP, the most popular IP management activity amongst respondents.</li><li>20% of firms indicated that they license their IP, allowing others to use it for a fee.</li></ul><p>In addition to this formal piece of research the IPO routinely surveys businesses in the course of designing and delivering its business support and outreach activities. This is intended to help to monitor and assess the effectiveness of these activities to ensure they are fit for purpose and if necessary improve, develop and even cease them for alternative approaches.</p><p>The IPO is using findings from its own and other business surveys to inform its approach to business outreach and the creation of IP advisory and support tools.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 13:53:42 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

515553

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Public Libraries
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many public libraries have closed since 2010; how many are currently under threat of closure; and what action they are taking to ensure that public libraries are maintained as a statutory service and to promote improvement of the public library service.
	tabling member printed	The Marquess of Lothian
	uin	HL7933
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Culture, Media and Sport monitors closely proposed changes to library service provision throughout England. The Department does not maintain detail on the number of public libraries under review by local authorities, but based on desk research we estimate that from January 2010 to January 2016 approximately 110 static public libraries in England closed completely.</p><p> </p><p>Public libraries are funded and run by local authorities and it is a matter for local authorities to determine how best to provide a comprehensive and efficient public library service to their local community, within available resources.</p><p> </p><p>My Department, together with the Local Government Association, has set up a Leadership for Libraries Taskforce to help public libraries in England build on good practice and add value for the communities they serve. The Taskforce is currently consulting on the attached document at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/libraries-deliver-ambition-for-public-libraries-in-england-2016-2021 which sets out the ambition for public libraries in the future. Furthermore, thanks to Government funding, free Wi-Fi is available to 99% of public libraries in England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 16:14:05 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name Libraries Deliver_ Ambition for Public Libraries in England 2016-2021 - GOV.pdf title Libraries Deliver ambition document
	tabling member	259 label Biography information for The Marquess of Lothian

515931

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept id	10
	answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
	answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
	hansard heading	Horse Racing: Betting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the current annual arrangements for setting the Horseracing Betting Levy will continue under the proposed new funding arrangements, or will be extended beyond twelve months.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Hindhead
	uin	HL7996
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Currently the levy rate is agreed each year by the Horserace Betting Levy Board.</p><p> </p><p>Under the new model the level of contribution from betting to racing will be set by Government. We will take into account various findings when considering the rate and its duration, including the independent economic analysis that we commissioned last year. We will hold discussions with both industries before reaching decisions on these issues.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 11:36:10 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4542 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Hindhead

516985

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	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	Retail Acquisitions
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will investigate the compliance of professional advisers to Retail Acquisitions with know-your-customer and money-laundering regulations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL8140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>A regulatory framework is in place to deal with non-compliance with know-your-customer and money-laundering regulations. However, this is not the focus of the current investigation by the Insolvency Service into BHS.</p><p>If, during the course of the current Insolvency Service investigation into BHS, it appears that there is good reason to widen the scope of its enquires, the Insolvency Service has powers under the Companies Act 1985 to initiate confidential enquiries.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/05/2016 14:54:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners