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46450

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2014
	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
	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 publish a summary of the responses to the consultation on strengthening the regulatory regime and fee structure for insolvency practitioners which closed on 28 March 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	194829
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>We plan to publish the responses received (unless they may be deemed confidential within the Freedom of Information Act's Code of Practice for authorities) alongside the Government's response to the views received.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

46458

	registered interest
	date	02/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when Ministers in his Department met officials from the Insolvency Service to discuss insolvency practitioner (a) fees and (b) partial licences in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	194873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills meet with officials from the Insolvency Service on a regular basis to discuss a wide variety of insolvency issues.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

48416

	registered interest
	date	25/04/2014
	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
	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 proportion of (a) Official Receivers and (b) all Insolvency Service officials who will receive training leading to a (i) personal insolvency partial licence and (ii) corporate insolvency partial licence.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	196532
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The legislation relating to official receivers and Insolvency Service technical staff, does not require study to hold an Insolvency Practitioners' Licence and, as such, no staff will receive training that will lead to either a personal insolvency partial licence or a corporate insolvency partial licence.</p><p> </p><p><em>Under S399(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 “………the official receiver, in relation to any bankruptcy, </em><em>winding up</em><em>, individual voluntary arrangement, debt relief order or application for such an order</em><em>is any person who by virtue of the following provisions ………….is authorised to act as the official receiver ………..” and S399(2) “The Secretary of State may ……. appoint persons to the office of official receiver ……………….”.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p>All technical staff are required to study for, and pass, a bespoke accredited training programme at Qualifications &amp; Credit Framework Level 3 and are required to undertake a minimum of 5 days Continuous Professional Development per year.</p><p>Incidentally, over 50% of Official Receivers hold a professional qualification e.g. ACCA.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

60643

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2014
	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, which organisations (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met to discuss regulation of pub companies in (i) 2013 and (ii) 2014; and on what dates those meetings took place.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	199739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has taken an even handed approach to speaking with stakeholders from all sides of the debate in developing our proposals for statutory intervention in the pubs sector.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2013, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Minister</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 January</p></td><td><p>Ministerial Roundtable with licensee groups including:</p><p> </p><p>British Institute of Innkeeping; GMB Union; Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations; Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers; Brighton &amp; Hove Licensees Association; Campaign for Real Ale; Fair Pint Campaign; Independent Pub Confederation; Federation of Small Businesses; Guild of Master Victuallers.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28 January</p></td><td><p>Ministerial Roundtable including:</p><p> </p><p>British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Star Pubs and Bars.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7 February</p></td><td><p>Ministerial Roundtable including:</p><p> </p><p>Greene King; Shepherd Neame; Everards Brewery; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery; Independent Family Brewers of Britain.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21 February</p></td><td><p>Meeting with the Scottish Licensed Trade Association.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27 February</p></td><td><p>Meeting with Enterprise Inns</p></td><td><p>Michael Fallon</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 June</p></td><td><p>Ministerial Roundtable including:</p><p> </p><p>Everards Brewery; Fuller Smith &amp; Turner; Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton; McMullen &amp; Sons; Shepherd Neame; Wadworth &amp; Co; Trust Inns; Greene King; Titanic Brewery; Westerham Ales; Society of Independent Brewers.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 June</p></td><td><p>Ministerial Roundtable including:</p><p> </p><p>British Beer and Pub Association; Enterprise Inns; Marston's; Mitchells &amp; Butlers; Punch Taverns; Spirit Pub Company; Star Pubs and Bars; Wellington Pub Company.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18 July</p></td><td><p>Meeting with Greg Mulholland MP and the Independent Pub Confederation.</p></td><td><p>Jo Swinson</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 September</p></td><td><p>Meeting with the British Beer and Pub Association.</p></td><td><p>Vince Cable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29 October</p></td><td><p>Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses (pubs were discussed as part of a wider meeting).</p></td><td><p>Vince Cable</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In 2014, BIS Ministers met the following organisations:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Minister</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>30 January</p></td><td><p>Meeting with the Federation of Small Businesses.</p></td><td><p>Vince Cable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12 February</p></td><td><p>Meeting with Sir Peter Luff MP and Admiral Taverns; Hook Norton Brewery.</p></td><td><p>Jenny Willott</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 March</p></td><td><p>Meeting with Greene King.</p></td><td><p>Jenny Willott</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>24 March</p></td><td><p>Meeting with representatives of the British Beer and Pub Association; Punch Taverns; Shepherd Neame.</p></td><td><p>Jenny Willott</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>31 March</p></td><td><p>Meeting with the Campaign for Real Ale.</p></td><td><p>Jenny Willott</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 April</p></td><td><p>Meeting with S A Brains.</p></td><td><p>Jenny Willott</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to meetings with organisations, Ministers met with a number of tied tenants. Officials also met with stakeholders before, during and after the consultation process to discuss our proposals to establish a Statutory Code and an independent Adjudicator.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 16/06/2014 15:56:29 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins