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429192

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Rolls-Royce
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they plan to take, if any, to help Britain’s aerospace and defence industry in the light of Rolls-Royce’s fifth profit warning in 21 months.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Government is working with Britain’s aerospace and defence industry through the Aerospace Growth Partnership and the Defence Growth Partnership to remove barriers to growth, boost exports and grow high value jobs.As part of this work we are supporting the industry’s investment in technology, competitiveness and productivity, and skills, to help ensure the UK remains one of the world’s leading aerospace and defence nations</p><br /><p>At the Spending Review, the Government protected and extended spending on the Aerospace Technology Institute.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 02/12/2015 11:54:34 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

429193

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Automation
	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 claim by the Bank of England that up to 15 million jobs in Britain are at risk from increased mechanisation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Bank of England has made an important contribution to the debate about how technological developments will shape work and the labour market.</p><br /><p>While assessments often focus on the jobs at risk from technological change, the wider effects of such changes can also be to create jobs. The UK economy has adapted well to previous changes related to automation and globalisation, with over 2.5 million people moving between jobs each year, and it is now experiencing record rates (73.7%) and levels (31.2 million) of employment.</p><br /><p>The Government is taking action to provide individuals with the skills that will help prepare them for changes to the labour market. Activities include the new school computing curriculum, developing new apprenticeship standards, growing the apprenticeships programme and recently announcing the Institute for Coding.​​</p><br /><p>Furthermore, the Government’s Horizon Scanning Programme Team is working with officials across departments to explore the implications for policy – including employment – of automation. This has included meeting the experts who created the methodology underlying the Bank of England’s analysis.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2015 17:20:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

431532

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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	Ethnic Groups: Employment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to increase racial diversity in the workplace in the light of the Business in the Community report <i>Race at Work 2015</i>, which found that ethnic minority Britons are struggling against bias at work.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 protects all individuals against racial and other forms of discrimination in the workplace. The Prime Minister has underlined the Government’s commitments to increasing racial diversity in the workplace in his 2020 Vision in which he made a commitment to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020. Her Majesty’s Government welcomes the publication of the Race at Work report and will study its recommendations carefully,.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/12/2015 12:23:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

431535

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2015
	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	Business: EU Law
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are holding discussions about reducing EU regulation of UK business.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL3798
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Reducing the burden of EU regulation is a critical element of stimulating jobs, competitiveness and growth in Europe. We welcome the European Commission’s recent progress in this area, but want them to go further. Together with other like-minded Member States, we are pressing the Commission to bring forward proposals for an EU target to cut the total burden on business, in line with the Prime Minister’s EU reform letter to European Council President Tusk.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2015 16:07:35 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

433077

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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	Business: Ethnic Groups
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to commission a review into the obstacles that prevent more people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds from reaching senior positions in business, similar to the Women on Boards review by Lord Davies of Abersoch.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Government believes that businesses benefit from a rich and wide talent pool including people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.</p><p>Government is fully supportive of the private led Diversity initiative chaired by Sir John Parker who are currently considering this issue. We expect the group to report on their findings in 2016.</p><p>There are no current plans for Government to commission a separate review into the obstacles that are preventing more people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds from reaching senior positions in the boardroom.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/12/2015 12:35:15 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

432405

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2015
	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	Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the age profile of the total number of apprentices in 2013–14 and 2014–15.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL3919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>In the 2013/14 academic year there were 851,500 government funded apprentices. Of these, 185,800 were aged under 19, 308,900 were aged 19-24 and 356,900 were aged over 25.</p><br /><p>Over the 2014/15 academic year there were 871,800 government funded apprentices. Of these, 194,100 were aged under 19, 315,000 were aged 19-24 and 362,600 were aged over 25.</p><br /><p>Information on Apprenticeship participation by age in 2013/14 and 2014/15 is published as part of a Statistical First Release:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held</a></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/12/2015 12:14:18 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name SFR_commentary_November_2015__1_.pdf title Statistical First release commentary
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

428938

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Higher Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they intend to bring forward any legislative proposals, following the current consultation, to give effect to the green paper on higher education <i>Fulfilling our Potential</i>.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Finsbury
	uin	HL3661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s consultation on the higher education green paper, <em>Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice</em>, closes on 15 January 2016. The Government will issue its response No decisions have yet been taken on the proposals in the green paper or how they would be implemented.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 01/12/2015 16:42:34 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	186 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Finsbury

429507

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2015
	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	Erasmus+ Programme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support and promote the Erasmus+ programme, which aims to boost skills and employability through education, training and sport.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pendry
	uin	HL3757
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The Erasmus+ programme enables organisations and citizens to achieve their potential through international education, training and sport opportunities.</p><br /><p>A body called the National Agency (a consortium of the British Council and Ecorys UK) deliver the Erasmus+ programme in the UK. The Government supports the National Agency’s delivery, aligns the programme with Government objectives, and represents the UK in European meetings on Erasmus+. The National Agency has a communications team that is dedicated to raising awareness of the Erasmus+ programme. The Government does not duplicate this work.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 30/11/2015 12:19:46 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	457 label Biography information for Lord Pendry

432109

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	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	Union Learning Fund
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much money has been paid to the Union Learning Fund (1) in the past three years, and (2) in total since its inception; which trade unions were provided with assistance from the Fund last year and how much each trade union was provided with; and whether they have any plans to end those payments or assess their efficacy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL3882
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Union Learning Fund (ULF) was established in 1998 and funding has been provided by a number of different Departments. Between 1998-9 and 2006-7, around £70m of funding was allocated to support the ULF.</p><br /><p>Since 2006, the ULF has been administered by Unionlearn (the TUC's learning organisation) and by the end of this financial year around £116m in total will have been distributed to ULF projects in respect of the financial years 2007-8 to 2015-16 of which £36.4m is in the last three of those years.</p><br /><p>An independently chaired ULF Assessment Panel recently reviewed a number of bids from unions for ULF grants for 2016-17. The Department for Business, Innovation &amp; Skills is currently finalising internal budgets following the spending review and will confirm the amount that is available for the 2016-17 financial year in early 2016.</p><br /><p>The total amount of funding received by all trade unions from the ULF for the financial year 2014-15 is set out in the table below.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Name of trade union</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Funding received in 2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aegis</p></td><td><p>230,981</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen</p></td><td><p>299,116</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Association of Teachers and Lecturers</p></td><td><p>192,269</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union</p></td><td><p>123,354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bakers and Allied Food Workers Union</p></td><td><p>378,382</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Britannia Staff Union</p></td><td><p>130,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Community</p></td><td><p>235,434</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Communication Workers Union</p></td><td><p>380,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="https://www.equity.org.uk/" target="_blank">Equity</a></p></td><td><p>119,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fire Brigades Union</p></td><td><p>512,462</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GMB (Yorkshire and Humberside)</p></td><td><p>429,749</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GMB (North West)</p></td><td><p>298,990</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>GMB (South)</p></td><td><p>620,522</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://www.naoss.co.uk/" target="_blank">National Association of Stable Staff</a></p></td><td><p>76,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="http://www.pcs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Public and Commercial Services Union</a></p></td><td><p>912,996</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Professional Footballers' Association</p></td><td><p>236,072</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Prison Officers' Association</p></td><td><p>704,768</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal College of Midwives</p></td><td><p>219,380</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Royal College of Nurses</p></td><td><p>205,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers</p></td><td><p>509,844</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists</p></td><td><p>251,675</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Transport Salaried Staffs' Association</p></td><td><p>350,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians</p></td><td><p>217,743</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University and College Union</p></td><td><p>79,289</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UFS</p></td><td><p>134,353</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UNISON (North)</p></td><td><p>421,324</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UNISON (National)</p></td><td><p>660,011</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UNITE</p></td><td><p>1,880,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Unity</p></td><td><p>52,078</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Road Transport Union</p></td><td><p>161,773</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers</p></td><td><p>716,985</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staff Union West Bromwich Building Society</p></td><td><p>65,809</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/12/2015 17:51:11 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird

432557

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	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	Universities
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they treat universities that receive public funding as private or public institutions.
	tabling member printed	Lord Laird
	uin	HL3966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>In general, universities that receive public grant funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England are private institutions.</p><br /><p>However there are instances where the law does consider them to be public authorities. For example, they are listed in Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as public authorities for the purposes of that Act. However, for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998, they are considered to be ‘hybrid’ public authorities, which means that that Act only applies to their public functions, and not their private ones.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2015 14:01:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2479 label Biography information for Lord Laird