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170270

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	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	Unpaid Work
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to encourage and support the remuneration of internships.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL3766
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2014 answer text <p>The term “intern” is not defined in any legislation: entitlement to the minimum wage depends on whether or not an individual is a worker. If an internship meets the legal definition of a worker, then they must be paid at least the minimum wage from the start. Given the dependency on employment status, it is vital that employers and workers understand how this is determined.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Last November, the Minister for Employment Relations launched a series of posters and an information video alongside 200 letters to employers to increase awareness of employers and interns rights and responsibilities in relation to the National Minimum Wage. This was followed by a Facebook campaign. The Facebook messages reached 160,000 young people and HMRC are currently evaluating the impact of the letters sent to employers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, complaints from interns about non-payment of the minimum wage are prioritised by HMRC for investigation and HMRC will investigate every complaint made to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline. Any worker who believes that they are being paid below the minimum wage should call the helpline on 0800 917 2368.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Determining an individual’s employment status can be complicated; this is why the Business Secretary announced a review of employment status in October this year, to help ensure an employment status framework in the UK that meets the needs of everyone. This is an internal review and will present findings to ministers early next year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 23/12/2014 12:48:32 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

168491

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Medicine: Postgraduate Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) Masters students, and (2) PhD students were supported via the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in nursing or allied care disciplines in each of the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
	uin	HL3521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department supports postgraduate study in nursing and allied care disciplines through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), except where courses are sponsored directly by National Health Service (NHS) bodies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HEFCE funding is provided via two different routes:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>i) Taught Programmes, which are typically Masters qualifications such as Masters of Arts or Masters of Sciences, but also include courses such as postgraduate diplomas;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ii) Research Programmes, which are typically Doctorates in Philosophy (PhDs), but can include some Masters programmes such as Masters of Philosophy or Masters of Research courses. Research programmes are funded through ‘Quality-Related (QR) Research Degree Programme (RDP) supervision funding’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of full-time equivalents funded on each of these programmes is provided in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>Funding for Postgraduate Taught Programmes</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Students funded by HEFCE on Taught Programmes in nursing and subjects allied to medicine<sup>1</sup></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taught Masters Programmes<strong><sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>2,685</p></td><td><p>3,170</p></td><td><p>2,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Taught Post-Graduate Programmes</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td><td><p>1,160</p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 students.</p><p> </p><p>1. Figures are based on the ‘Subjects allied to medicine’ principal subject area, defined by the Joint Academic Coding System, and exclude those studying ‘Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology’ and ‘Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy’.</p><p> </p><p>2. Taught Masters Programmes are defined by HESA course aims E00, M00, M01, M02, M10, M11, M16 and M50. The full definitions for these course aims are published at <a href="http://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>3. Source of data: HESA/ILR data for the period 2010-11 to 2012-13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding for Postgraduate Research Programmes</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Students counting towards HEFCE’s Quality Related Research Degree Programme supervision funding<sup>1, 2</sup></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursing and Midwifery</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>375</p></td><td><p>375</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Allied Health Professions and Studies</p></td><td><p>955</p></td><td><p>995</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,310</p></td><td><p>1,365</p></td><td><p>1,370</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 students.</p><p> </p><p>1 Eligible UK- and EU-domiciled postgraduate research students are counted in this allocation.</p><p> </p><p>2 Research Students include both those studying towards PhDs and those studying towards a research masters (such as an MRes or MPhil).</p><p> </p><p>3 Nursing and allied care studies have been defined in this table on the basis of Units of Assessment used in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.</p><p> </p><p>4 FTE Figures on QR RDP supervision funding are based on Post-Graduate Research Data reported to HESA for the years shown.</p><p> </p><p>5 Funding is confined to those Higher Education Provider Departments that attained a rating of at least a 2* in the 2008 RAE.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:23 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

518099

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: NHS
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the NHS is excluded from the current Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership draft documents, and whether they will publish the legal advice they previously commissioned, in full or in summary, regarding the risk to the NHS of litigation by US private health companies.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL8259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the noble Lord.</p> answering member printed Lord Price grouped question UIN HL8258 question first answered 12/05/2016 11:53:34 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

518098

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2016
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: NHS
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they plan to publish the draft Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership agreement and any information they have on risks to the NHS posed by that draft treaty.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL8258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2016 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Prorogation. Ministers will correspond directly with the noble Lord.</p> answering member printed Lord Price grouped question UIN HL8259 question first answered 12/05/2016 11:53:34 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

517806

	registered interest
	date	05/05/2016
	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	Trade Promotion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government who are the UK Trade Envoys, and to which country or countries each is assigned.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kilclooney
	uin	HL8229
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The table below outlines all current Trade Envoys and the market/markets which they cover. Further information can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/trade-envoys" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/trade-envoys</a></p><p> </p><table><thead><tr><td><p><strong>MP Trade Envoys</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Market/Markets</strong></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Adam Afriyie MP</p></td><td><p>Ghana</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rushanara Ali MP</p></td><td><p>Bangladesh</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richard Benyon MP</p></td><td><p>DRC, Mozambique, Ethiopia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jeffrey Donaldson MP</p></td><td><p>Egypt</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mark Garnier MP</p></td><td><p>Burma, Brunei, Thailand</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Richard Graham MP</p></td><td><p>Indonesia, ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), Philippines, Malaysia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>John Howell MP</p></td><td><p>Nigeria</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Andrew Murrison MP</p></td><td><p>Morocco, Tunisia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Andrew Percy MP</p></td><td><p>Canada</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mark Prisk MP</p></td><td><p>Brazil, Nordic and Baltics</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Astor of Hever DL</p></td><td><p>Kazakhstan, Oman</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury</p></td><td><p>Mexico</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord (Richard) Faulkner</p></td><td><p>Taiwan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Hollick of Notting Hill</p></td><td><p>Tanzania, Kenya</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Janvrin</p></td><td><p>Turkey</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord King of Bridgwater</p></td><td><p>Saudi Arabia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Lamont</p></td><td><p>Iran</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baroness Morris of Bolton</p></td><td><p>Jordan, Kuwait, Palestinian Territories</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne</p></td><td><p>Iraq, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Baroness Northover</p></td><td><p>Angola</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Popat</p></td><td><p>Uganda, Rwanda</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Puttnam of Queensgate</p></td><td><p>Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lord Risby of Haverhill</p></td><td><p>Algeria</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 10/05/2016 14:52:53 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	657 label Biography information for Lord Kilclooney

516424

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement will be subject to ratification by both Houses of Parliament and the US Congress.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL8062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We expect the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will be a “mixed” agreement, covering areas of both EU and Member State competence, to which the US, EU and all EU Member States will be parties.</p><p> </p><p>In that case, it will be subject to agreement by each EU Member State, the EU Council and the European Parliament. As part of this process in the UK, before the Government can ratify the agreement, the complete draft text of the agreement will initially be laid before Parliament for scrutiny for at least 21 sitting days. During this time MPs and Lords may debate the treaty in either or both Houses and vote on the proposed ratification.</p><p> </p><p>In the US, both Houses of Congress would have to ratify legislation to implement the agreement, but not the agreement itself.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 10/05/2016 12:00:38 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

516412

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Treasury: Africa
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Chancellor of the Exchequer last visited Africa to promote trade, investment and economic development; which countries he visited; and when he next intends to make such a visit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Oates
	uin	HL8050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Details of ministerial visits overseas are published on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the gov.uk website. For security reasons, the Chancellor’s engagements are announced as and when appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 09/05/2016 13:59:55 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	4549 label Biography information for Lord Oates

516411

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2016
	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	Africa: Visits Abroad
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Prime Minister last visited Africa to promote trade, investment and economic development; which countries he visited; and when he next intends to make such a visit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Oates
	uin	HL8049
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>Details of ministerial visits overseas are published on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the gov.uk website. For security reasons, the Prime Minister’s engagements are announced as and when appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 09/05/2016 15:14:13 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	4549 label Biography information for Lord Oates

515950

	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	Overseas Trade: Poland
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anelay of St Johns on 21 April (HL7530), what is their assessment of the state of trade relations between the UK and Poland.
	tabling member printed	Lord Patten
	uin	HL8006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The UK-Poland trade relationship is strong and is set to get stronger. In 2014, the value of UK exports to Poland amounted to £3.84billion and UK imports from Poland £7.84 billion.</p><p>The Government’s focus on trade and investment with Poland is on 6 strategic sectors which we believe offer most opportunity for UK exporters. These are defence and security, energy, infrastructure, financial services, healthcare &amp; life sciences and advanced manufacturing.</p><p>Our Embassy in Warsaw works in close collaboration with a recently established Overseas Business Network (OBN) partner to identify business opportunities for British firms and then to help them make the most of them. In 2015-2016, they were directly involved in winning contracts worth almost £450 million.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 10/05/2016 14:25:35 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	1137 label Biography information for Lord Patten

515893

	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	Overseas Trade: USA
	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 claims by the President of the United States that the UK leaving the EU could cause severe consequences to UK and US trade.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL7959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government has assessed that the total volume of UK trade with the world would be between 9% and 24% lower after 15 years if the UK left the EU.</p><p>If the UK withdrew from the EU we would no longer benefit from the trade agreement the EU is negotiating with the US. Negotiating a replacement agreement would take years as the US would almost certainly want to conclude its negotiations with the EU first before deciding whether to enter into separate negotiations with the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 09/05/2016 14:21:46 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick