Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

63993

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
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	Public Houses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to introduce a legal requirement for pubcos to offer a free-of-tie option in the public house sector.
tabling member constituency	Torbay
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Sanders
uin	202502
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, introduced to this House on 25 June 2014, does not include provision for mandatory free-of-tie. The Government recognises that some tenant groups and campaigners support this option, which might appear to offer a simple way of ensuring that tied tenants are no worse off than free-of-tie tenants. We looked carefully at this measure but have decided not to introduce it.</p><p>The responses to the Government's consultation on a Statutory Code and Adjudicator for the pubs sector raised concerns that mandatory free-of-tie would create uncertainty for pub-owning companies and have an unpredictable impact on the wider pubs sector which could even undermine the tied model. Even among the polarised views in the industry, there is strong support for the tie as a business model. What is important to the Government is that there are protections in place so that the tied model operates fairly. The reforms being taken forward in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will rebalance the relationship between pub-owning companies and their tied tenants, without threatening the balance of the wider industry.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 01/07/2014 14:19:32 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	237 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Sanders

63990

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
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	Companies: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will ensure that his legislative proposals aimed at creating a public register of beneficial ownership ensure that information in the register has undergone verification.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Clarke
uin	202441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government recognises that register integrity is an important issue. This Department is carefully considering with Companies House and others what checks are necessary to ensure integrity of data and that the registration of company information in the UK remains quick, simple and inexpensive.</p><p>The current UK register is one of the most open in the world, and is accessed over 240 million times a year. This means the information is policed on a significant scale by the public, who report anomalies to Companies House for follow up.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 01/07/2014 14:22:27 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	583 label Biography information for Mr Tom Clarke

64271

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
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	Energy
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 his Department's consumption in kWh of (a) gas and (b) electricity in each month since June 2010; and what the cost of such consumption has been in each such month.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
uin	202700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>This information is currently being collated and I will arrange for this data to be deposited in the libraries of the House as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/07/2014 15:15:38 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

64650

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
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	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 assessment he has made of the potential effect of the Flexible Working Regulations 2014 on workers with zero hours contracts.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	203174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Under the new regulations, which were brought into force on the 30 June, all employees with 26 continuous weeks of service have the right to request flexible working from their employer. Individuals on zero hours contracts, and who are employees, can request a change in their contracts which could also include a request to move to a fixed hours contract.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Individuals on zero hours contracts may be employees or workers, depending on the contract agreed between them and their employer. The Government does not keep records on the proportion of individual zero hours contracts workers on either employee or worker contracts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>While individuals on zero hour contracts, and who are not employees, do not have a statutory right to request flexible working, they can make an informal request to their employer to vary their hours or their working pattern. An employer can also choose to offer contractual rights that are more generous than those provided for in statute.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 03/07/2014 14:45:09 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

64458

registered interest
date	27/06/2014
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	Comet Group
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 the report from the Insolvency Service into the collapse of Comet to be published.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Alan Johnson
uin	202955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service's fact-finding inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the insolvency of Comet Group Ltd is being conducted under section 447 of the Companies Act. Publication of the findings of such investigations is prohibited by law although when an inquiry results in the winding up of the company, or the prosecution or disqualification of its directors, this is publicised.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 15:49:37 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	376 label Biography information for Alan Johnson

64639

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
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	Apprentices
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 apprentices there are in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Harrogate and Knaresborough
tabling member printed	Andrew Jones
uin	203019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>BIS currently employs 58 apprentices. A further 10 apprentices will be appointed under the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship scheme in September 2014.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 15:47:21 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3996 label Biography information for Andrew Jones

65281

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Street Trading
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to (a) amend or repeal the Pedlars Acts 1871 and 1881 and (b) amend Schedule 4 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 covering the street trading regime of England and Wales; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Warwickshire
tabling member printed	Dan Byles
uin	203563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>The original Street Trading and Pedlary consultation was issued in November 2012 and covered the repeal of the Pedlars Acts 1871 and 1881 and other, incidental changes to the Local Government and Miscellaneous Provisions Act to ensure compliance with the EU Services Directive 2006/123/EC. The consultation had been extended in order for the Government to engage further with the UK's pedlar community and closed in April 2013. We hope to issue a response by the end of the summer.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 15:30:46 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4112 label Biography information for Dan Byles

64876

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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	Woolworths
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 30 June 2014, Official Report, columns 464W, on insolvency, how much the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service paid in relation to the collapse of Woolworths; and how much of that amount was paid in respect of protective awards.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	203335
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has paid out a total of £59,207,942.40 to the former employees of Woolworths, and of this, £18,188,224.54 was paid in respect of protective awards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 13:51:18 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

65588

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Gender: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how much the Government has spent on the Think, Act, Report initiative.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	203666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p><em>Think, Act, Report</em> was launched in September 2011. On average it has had 2 full-time equivalent staff working on it since then, comprising one team leader (Grade 7) and one Senior Executive Officer. Around £5,000 has been spent on events and publications to support the initiative. Significant support in kind has been received from supporting businesses and other organisations, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, CIPD, CMI, Opportunity Now, and others. More than 200 companies are now supporting <em>Think, Act, Report</em>, collectively employing over 2million people.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 14:58:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65275

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Holiday Leave: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the Government's policy is on whether holiday pay may be calculated without reference to bonus and overtime payment; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	203544
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government guidance on this issue states that a week's holiday pay equals how much a worker receives for a week's work, excluding non-guaranteed overtime payments in most cases.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are aware of relevant court cases, such as <em>Neal v Freightliner</em> which will be heard by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in late July.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 07/07/2014 13:38:02 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope