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78992

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assurances the Government sought from (a) its financial adviser and (b) the syndicate of banks in advance of the privatisation of Royal Mail.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s financial adviser and the syndicate of banks providing professional services to support the preparation and delivery of the Royal Mail share sale were procured through competitive tendering processes. Advisers procured in this way provide assurance that they will deliver the services commissioned through the terms and conditions of their contractual engagement.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/09/2014 15:05:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78993

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his Department's Major Projects Portfolio September 2013, published on 23 May 2014, if he will place in the Library the lessons learned document in respect of the Royal Mail sale of shares.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The lessons learned document was prepared for internal use by the Department.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department does not intend to give this document wider circulation as producing such documents is important part of the decision making process and to release it would have an inhibiting effect on future Government decision making processes (including the identification of ways to improve those processes).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 01/09/2014 13:30:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

79019

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	UK Defence Solution Centre
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 annual budget of the UK Defence Solution Centre will be in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	206779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>Industry and Government are jointly funding the UK Defence Solutions Centre with a mix of cash and resource contributions equivalent to £2.8m this year for the start up phase, with £3.8m in each of the subsequent three years.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/09/2014 15:03:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

79020

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Defence and Security Organisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which overseas markets the UK Trade & Investment Defence and Security Organisation will set up joint teams.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	206780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>A new UKTI DSO Industry Liaison Board will determine the overseas markets that would benefit from additional Industry resource working more closely with Government and where joint teams overseas will be established. The Board will meet for the first time in the autumn.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/09/2014 14:51:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

79021

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	Defence Growth Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what companies will have representation on the Steering Committee of the Defence Growth Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	206781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>Companies currently represented on the Steering Committee are Airbus Group, Atkins, Babcock, BAE Systems, Cobham, Finmeccanica, General Dynamics, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, Marshall, MBDA, QinetiQ, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Serco, Thales. The trade association, ADS, is also a member and represents the interests of the wider defence sector. SME representation is currently being reviewed by the DGP. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Ministry of Defence are also represented on the Committee.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/09/2014 14:59:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

79022

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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	UK Defence Solutions Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much each company in the defence industry will provide to the UK Defence Solutions Centre; and how much each such company will receive in single source Ministry of Defence contracts in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Moray
tabling member printed	Angus Robertson
uin	206782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p>Overall funding for the DGP is split equally between Government and industry. For the Defence Solutions Centre, the key 16 companies on the Steering Committee are providing resources equivalent to £8m, split equally between them.</p><p>With regard to how much each such company will receive in single source Ministry of Defence contracts in each of the next three years, this information is not held centrally and could only be gathered at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/09/2014 15:01:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1433 label Biography information for Angus Robertson

78873

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
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	Cane Sugar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on ensuring that UK sugar cane refiners have improved access to cane sugar through free trade deals.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	206599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/10/2014 answer text <p>Colombia, Peru, Panama and the region of Central America have recently negotiated access to the EU sugar market through their Free Trade Agreements.</p><p>UK sugar cane refiners also benefit from duty free access to sugar imports from Least Developed Countries under the Everything But Arms Agreement (EBA) and the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. From 2009 these agreements have increased the quantity of cane sugar which can be imported duty-free.</p><p>EPA negotiations between the EU and Southern Africa were recently concluded and we expect this EPA to provide UK sugar cane refiners with improved access to cane sugar from Swaziland and South Africa. In addition, the recently negotiated EU-Fiji EPA should also allow UK firms to continue to buy duty-free Fijian cane sugar.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 01/10/2014 13:04:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

78874

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date the decision was taken to set the limit the public offering of Royal Mail shares to those applying for shares of a value of less than £10,000.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Dr Alasdair McDonnell
uin	206646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The decision to limit the allocation of shares under the Royal Mail Retail Offer to those applying for less than £10,000 was taken by Ministers on 9 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The banks involved in the sale of Royal Mail shares were informed on the same day as the decision was made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206647 question first answered 01/09/2014 13:41:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1596 label Biography information for Dr Alasdair McDonnell

78875

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what date banks were informed of the decision to limit Royal Mail shares to people applying for shares of a value less than £10,000.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Dr Alasdair McDonnell
uin	206647
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The decision to limit the allocation of shares under the Royal Mail Retail Offer to those applying for less than £10,000 was taken by Ministers on 9 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The banks involved in the sale of Royal Mail shares were informed on the same day as the decision was made.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206646 question first answered 01/09/2014 13:41:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1596 label Biography information for Dr Alasdair McDonnell

78876

registered interest
date	18/07/2014
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	EU Law
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 times the UK has lost EU infraction proceedings since May 2010 which relate to matters that fall within his Department's responsibility.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	206648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>Since May 2010 the UK has not lost any EU infraction proceedings falling within the responsibility of BIS.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/09/2014 16:44:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood