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972375

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Companies: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether the CPS plans to establish a central database of regulatory and enforcement actions taken against companies.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service is a not a regulator but the main independent prosecuting body in England and Wales. Accordingly it does not have access to this information and would therefore not create a central database of regulatory and enforcement actions taken against companies. Company information is held at Companies House which is the responsibility of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 09/10/2018 10:36:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

937465

	registered interest
	date	09/07/2018
	answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Business Improvement Districts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the establishment of a national register of Business Improvement Districts.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	162064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting Business Improvement Districts, and recognises the important role they play in allowing local businesses to work together to shape and improve their high streets and towns.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 12/07/2018 15:38:30 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

971330

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to paragraph 11 of his consultation document on the draft Register of Overseas Entities Bill relating to information for the public register on the beneficial ownership of companies that bid for public contracts, what thresholds he is considering for those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	172509
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government has decided that the most effective way to achieve the required level of transparency on overseas entity beneficial ownership is to require information about beneficial ownership as a condition of awarding contracts that meet certain conditions or thresholds, and that this will enable the public and interested parties to easily identify the beneficial owners of entities awarded central government contracts. The information about beneficial ownership that will be required, will be equivalent to that proposed for the Register of Overseas Entities, and it will be published in an equally transparent way.</p><p><br></p><p>The Government is currently considering mechanisms including the Contracts Finder service (currently used to publish contract award information) to achieve this. A financial threshold for applying the policy on publishing beneficial ownership information has not yet been decided and will be subject to a Government consultation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 172510 question first answered 14/09/2018 11:11:12 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

971331

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Companies: Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to paragraph 11 of his consultation on the draft Register of Overseas Entities Bill and the information for the public register on beneficial ownership of companies that bid for public contracts, what conditions he is considering for those contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	172510
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government has decided that the most effective way to achieve the required level of transparency on overseas entity beneficial ownership is to require information about beneficial ownership as a condition of awarding contracts that meet certain conditions or thresholds, and that this will enable the public and interested parties to easily identify the beneficial owners of entities awarded central government contracts. The information about beneficial ownership that will be required, will be equivalent to that proposed for the Register of Overseas Entities, and it will be published in an equally transparent way.</p><p><br></p><p>The Government is currently considering mechanisms including the Contracts Finder service (currently used to publish contract award information) to achieve this. A financial threshold for applying the policy on publishing beneficial ownership information has not yet been decided and will be subject to a Government consultation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 172509 question first answered 14/09/2018 11:11:12 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972350

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the commitments made by the UK at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2016, when the Crown Commercial Service plans to introduce a new check to prevent corrupt bidders winning public contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government committed in its Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2022 to trial in the Crown Commercial Service, a new conviction check.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the trial was to establish whether convictions data could be accessed at source to undertake conviction checks on preferred bidders on behalf of Government departments and complement existing provisions in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The trial is now complete and Cabinet Office is analysing the results before identifying a preferred approach and timescales for implementation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 174039 question first answered 09/10/2018 11:02:13 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972351

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the commitments made by the UK Government at the Anti-Corruption Summit 2016, how an additional conviction check at the Crown Commercial Service will complement existing checks on convictions.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174039
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government committed in its Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2022 to trial in the Crown Commercial Service, a new conviction check.</p><p> </p><p>The purpose of the trial was to establish whether convictions data could be accessed at source to undertake conviction checks on preferred bidders on behalf of Government departments and complement existing provisions in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The trial is now complete and Cabinet Office is analysing the results before identifying a preferred approach and timescales for implementation.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 174038 question first answered 09/10/2018 11:02:13 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972356

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to require bidders to declare (a) convictions under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 and (b) similar additional information in pre-contract questionnaires.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174040
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide an exhaustive list of the grounds on which a bidder must or can be excluded from a procurement procedure, which are derived from the EU Procurement Directives.</p><p> </p><p>The grounds on which a bidder can be excluded on a discretionary basis include where the bidder is guilty of grave professional misconduct, which renders its integrity questionable.</p><p> </p><p>Where a bidder has committed serious offences, such as an offence under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010, this may give rise to grounds for exclusion. The particular circumstances would be considered on a case by case basis by the relevant procuring authority, including any evidence of self-cleaning put forward by the bidder.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:01:19 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

972357

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the UK has excluded a company from public procurement for reasons of corruption.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174041
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Exclusion decisions in public procurement are taken by individual contracting authorities and government does not hold this data centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:01:44 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

973344

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Small Businesses: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister of the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that all Government suppliers are signatories of the Prompt Payment Code.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	174704
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy strengthened the Prompt Payment Code. The majority of government's 28 strategic suppliers are signatories the Prompt Payment Code, promising to pay suppliers, including small businesses in their supply chain, promptly and fairly. A list of these signed suppliers has been published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. Payment practices of those strategic suppliers who are not signatories to the Code, are regularly monitored to ensure that they are in line with the aims of prompt payment policy.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, all public sector buyers must have 30 day payment terms in their contracts and through their supply chains; they must also publish their payment performance bi-annually.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 09/10/2018 11:00:33 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

984447

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made on ensuring that all Government suppliers are signatories of the Prompt Payment Code.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	177296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>In 2015 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) strengthened the Prompt Payment Code.</p><p> </p><p>The majority of government’s strategic suppliers are signatories to the Code and payment practices of government’s largest suppliers are regularly monitored to ensure that they are in line with the aims of prompt payment policy. While the Prompt Payment Code is voluntary, any new strategic supplier to Government is encouraged to sign up.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, BEIS have recently launched a call for evidence seeking views and experiences on the impact of late and unfair payment practices. This closes on 29 November and a link to this is below:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/creating-a-responsible-payment-culture-a-call-for-evidence-on-tackling-late-payment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 15/10/2018 10:51:34 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson