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454741

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what skills businesses in the retail and commercial enterprise sector are required to teach to apprentices to qualify for funding under the Government's apprenticeship programme.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	28187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>In England, apprenticeships must be undertaken under either an agreed Specification for Apprenticeships in England (SASE) framework or a new employer designed apprenticeship standard.</p><p><a href="http://www.afo.sscalliance.org/frameworkslibrary/" target="_blank">Apprenticeship Frameworks Online (AFO)</a> contains detailed information on all of the apprenticeship frameworks currently available. Apprentices can undertake apprenticeships in Retail and Retail Management under SASE.</p><p>Employer-designed apprenticeship standards will replace apprenticeship frameworks. There are three new retail apprenticeship standards ready for delivery – Retailer, Retail Manager and Retail Team Leader. Each of these standards describes the skills, knowledge and behaviours that an apprentice needs to be competent in these occupations.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 16:26:24 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

454742

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations his Department received on the requirements to be set for businesses in the retail and commercial enterprise sector to qualify for funding under the apprenticeship programme before those requirements were determined.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	28188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>In England, to qualify for apprenticeships funding, an apprenticeship offered in any sector must comply with the Skills Funding Agency’s funding rules: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sfa-funding-rules-2016-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sfa-funding-rules-2016-to-2017</a>.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 16:25:03 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

454743

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that apprentices in the retail and commercial enterprise sector are taught skills that they would not otherwise be able to learn on the job under a normal employment contract.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	28189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>In England, apprenticeships are jobs with an accompanying skills development programme to support the individual to achieve full competency in an occupation. The apprentice develops through a wide mix of learning in the workplace, formal off-the-job training and the opportunity to practise new skills in a real work environment.</p><p>A key expectation of apprenticeships is that they must be more than just training for a single job or employer: they must ensure that apprentices can adapt to a variety of roles, with different employers, and develop the ability to progress their careers. This is set out in the apprenticeship framework or standard.</p><p>The list of apprenticeships frameworks available for employers and training organisations is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-frameworks-live-list" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-frameworks-live-list</a></p><p>A list of all the apprenticeship standards approved by the Skills Funding Agency that are ready for employers and training organisations to use is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-standards-ready-for-delivery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-standards-ready-for-delivery</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 16:25:46 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

454747

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Manufacturing Industries: Apprentices
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 an assessment of the implications for his policy on apprenticeships of the finding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in its report, Engineered in Britain, published in December 2015, on the number of manufacturers who would be encouraged to take on more apprentices if the Government provided £3,000 to any person who completed their apprenticeship.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	28193
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>Apprenticeships are paid jobs. In October 2015 we increased the apprenticeship National Minimum Wage by over 20% to £3.30 per hour for apprentices aged under 19 and those aged 19 and over in the first year of their apprenticeship. Most employers pay more than this. The average gross hourly pay received by apprentices in England is £6.31 an hour for Level 2 and 3 apprentices and £9.69 for higher apprentices.</p><p>Apprenticeships have excellent wage returns for individuals over their working life. These add up to between £48,000 and £74,000 for level 2 apprenticeships and between £77,000 and £117,000 for level 3 apprentices. Those completing an apprenticeship at level 4 or above could earn £150,000 more on average over their lifetime.</p><p>These are the right long-term financial incentives for individuals to support the growth of apprenticeships towards 3 million new starts by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 16:24:22 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

454008

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what academic research he has commissioned on the expected behavioural response of employers to the introduction of the apprenticeship levy.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	27865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have commissioned academics at The Institute of Employment Research and IFF Research to undertake detailed research into employers’ response to the apprenticeship levy. We expect to be able to publish this in late summer 2016.</p><p>Additionally we are in the process of commissioning further independent work in this area.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 11:28:30 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

454025

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Publicity
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 10 February 2016 to Question 25652, what media outlets will be used to carry advertising as part of the national campaign for apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	North Down
tabling member printed	Lady Hermon
uin	28016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The national campaign for apprenticeships will target a range of audiences including young people, employers and parents.</p><p> </p><p>Advertising will be through a number of different media channels including television, out of home advertising (e.g. posters), radio, digital and social media.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 17:15:58 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1437 label Biography information for Lady Hermon

454031

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Minimum Wage: Enforcement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether employers named and shamed by his Department on 5 February 2016 for non-payment of the national minimum wage and found to be owing arrears to a select number of employees subsequently had their whole workforce investigated by HM Revenue and Customs to ascertain if the same practice applied to all other workers employed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	28094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) fully investigate all worker complaints and where they identify arrears of pay, issue a Notice of Underpayment to recover arrears for the complainant. Since 2015, HMRC have also instructed the employer to &quot;self-correct&quot; for all other workers and report the details to HMRC. An assurance process is in place to make sure employers have fully self-corrected. If they do not, and HMRC believes other workers are likely to have been underpaid, the employer will be investigated again.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC are unable to provide an exact figure for how many of the 92 employers have been investigated beyond the original complaint. The information is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 17:30:19 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

454039

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Taxation
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 his Department has made of the effect of the apprenticeship levy on training and skills funding for people aged over 21.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	28101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The combination of the apprenticeship levy, the protection of the Adult Education Budget and the extension of loans mean that by 2019-20 the total spending power of the FE sector to support participation will be £3.41bn, an increase in cash terms of 40% compared with 2015-16.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 17:57:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

454040

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department intends to cease any existing or planned business support mechanisms in order to implement the apprenticeship levy.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	28102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>We are not cutting business support mechanisms to implement the levy. We are improving our business services by developing the Digital Apprenticeship Service.</p><p> </p><p>Through this online mechanism employers will have access to a number of services to help them choose and pay for apprenticeship training in a simple way.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 17:11:29 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

454041

registered interest
date	23/02/2016
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	Institute for Apprenticeships: Costs
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 estimated (a) cost of establishing and (b) annual running cost of the Institute of Apprenticeships is; whether his Department has made an assessment of the effects of funding that institute on his Department's annual programme budget; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	28157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The final size and structure of the Institute for Apprenticeships will be determined by the shadow chair and CEO later in the spring and this will then determine its final running cost. The body will be funded by Government using public funds, as the rest of the governance system is, and it is expected that some funding will be freed up from savings across the Department.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2016 17:22:11 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright