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100088

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	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	ACAS
	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 plans to evaluate the effect of the ACAS early conciliation service on keeping workplace disputes out of court.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	211244
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Early Conciliation was introduced in April 2014 and it is too early to make any meaningful assessment on the effect of Early Conciliation on Employment Tribunal cases at this stage. However, officials in the Department and Acas are already monitoring the impact of Early Conciliation and I will make an announcement on evaluation in due course, once we have a sufficient evidence base to do so.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/10/2014 11:30:02 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

92439

	registered interest
	date	10/10/2014
	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	Accidents
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department maintains the (a) Home Accidents Deaths Database, (b) Home Accident Surveillance System and (c) Leisure Accidents Surveillance System.
	tabling member constituency	Chesham and Amersham
	tabling member printed	Mrs Cheryl Gillan
	uin	209286
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2014 answer text <p>Between 1978 and 2002 the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) (a predecessor of the Department for Business, Innovation &amp; Skills (BIS)) collated accident data via the Home Accident Surveillance System (HASS) and the Leisure Accident Surveillance System (LASS), two linked databases holding details of home and leisure accidents that caused a serious enough injury to warrant a visit to hospital. In 2003 the DTI announced it would no longer fund the collection and publication of HASS/LASS data. The historical data is currently held by The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department did not collate The Home Accidents Deaths Database.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/10/2014 13:38:10 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	18 label Biography information for Dame Cheryl Gillan

76241

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2014
	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	Adrian Beecroft
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department had meetings with Adrian Beecroft between May 2012 and June 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	204448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Details of Ministers' meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p>Information for January – March 2014 will be published in due course.</p><p>Information on any meetings between officials and Adrian Beecroft is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:24:14 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

176327

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2015
	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	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	222566
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) publishes the core departmental advertising and publicity costs in the BIS Annual Report and Accounts. The costs recorded in each of the last four annual reports are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2013/14: £8,774,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13: £1,449,000</p><p> </p><p>2011/12: £2,402,000</p><p> </p><p>2010/11: £587,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The annual report for 2014/15 is due to be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The spend in 2013/14 was principally due to the launch of the first wave of advertising for the Business is GREAT campaign, which has successfully highlighted Government support available to businesses, assisting many to find the help they need to grow.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 04/02/2015 14:04:52 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

225602

	registered interest
	date	06/03/2015
	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	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's advertising and communications expenditure was in each month since September 2014; and what that expenditure is forecast to be in March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	226592
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department has been responsible for running some major campaigns over the course of this financial year. These include promoting the take up and increasing awareness of apprenticeships via the Get in, Go Far campaign and increasing awareness of rights for flexible working and shared parental leave. We have also encouraged businesses to grow and take advantage of support that is available through the Business is GREAT Britain and Do More Online campaigns and also encouraging the take up of Growth Vouchers. The expenditure for each of the months requested that have been classified as advertising and publicity is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>September 2014 - £2,290,875</p><p>October 2014 - £1,813,933</p><p>November 2014 - £5,846,570</p><p>December 2014 - £1,729,298</p><p>January 2015 - £1,729,351</p><p>February 2015 - £8,080,370</p><p>March 2015 (spend to March 11th) - £856,003</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/03/2015 11:06:11 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

226562

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	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	Advertising
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) national newspaper advertisements, (d) local newspaper advertisements, (e) social media advertising and (f) other types of advertising in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	227293
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 17<sup>th</sup> March 2015 by my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-03-11/227295/" target="_blank">227295</a>.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 18/03/2015 10:58:56 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

227464

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2015
	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	Advertising
	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 16 March 2015 to Question 226592, what forecast he has made of expenditure on advertising and communications for March 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	227699
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>We estimate that spend in March on advertising and communications will be around £4m. Full details of our spend will be published in our Annual Report and Accounts later in the year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has been responsible for running some major campaigns over the course of this financial year. These include promoting the take up and increasing awareness of apprenticeships via the Get in, Go Far campaign and increasing awareness of new rights for shared parental leave and flexible working. We have also encouraged businesses to grow and take advantage of support that is available through the Business is GREAT Britain and Do More Online campaigns and also encouraging the take up of Growth Vouchers</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/03/2015 15:34:16 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

101759

	registered interest
	date	30/10/2014
	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	Agency Workers: Conditions of Employment
	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 is taking to strengthen enforcement of regulatory safeguards for agency workers.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	uin	212650
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills takes a targeted approach to enforcing employment law protections for agency workers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) enforce the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (both as amended).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These Regulations ensure protections for work-seekers because of the number of parties involved in the employment relationship – the work-seeker, the agency and the hirer. The Regulations include protections relating to ensuring work-seekers must be paid for all hours worked, cannot be charged a fee for work-finding and cannot be prevented from taking up a permanent position with a hirer.</p><p> </p><p>Employment agencies must also comply with national minimum wage (NMW) legislation which is enforced by HM Revenue and Customs. There are also health and safety protections in place for all workers, which are enforced by the Health and Safety Executive.</p><p> </p><p>EAS works collaboratively with these bodies on investigations and also works with a number of external bodies These include trade associations, Trading Standards and organisations such as SAFERjobs (Safe Advice for Employment and Recruitment).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>SAFRERjobs is a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organisation set up to raise awareness and combat criminal activities that may be attempted on those seeking a job, or through the services provided by the recruitment industry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 04/11/2014 17:03:31 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

168145

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2014
	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	Agency Workers: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of those engaged with agencies using the Swedish derogation who are (a) white British and (b) from any other ethnic minority background.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	217343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The exact number of agency workers in the UK who are employed on pay between assignment contracts who are men, women, white British or any other ethnic minority background is not known. Any estimated impacts of the Agency Workers Regulations were covered in the original impact assessment which can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121212135622/http:/www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/10-582-agency-workers-directive-impact-assessment" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121212135622/http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/10-582-agency-workers-directive-impact-assessment</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 217342 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:26:13 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

168148

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2014
	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	Agency Workers: EU Law
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of those engaged with agencies using the Swedish derogation who are (a) men and (b) women.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	217342
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2014 answer text <p>The exact number of agency workers in the UK who are employed on pay between assignment contracts who are men, women, white British or any other ethnic minority background is not known. Any estimated impacts of the Agency Workers Regulations were covered in the original impact assessment which can be found at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121212135622/http:/www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/10-582-agency-workers-directive-impact-assessment" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20121212135622/http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/10-582-agency-workers-directive-impact-assessment</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 217343 question first answered 11/12/2014 16:26:13 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson