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458861

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date	09/03/2016
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	Consumers: Protection
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 he is taking to ensure that non-approved, sub-standard or fake safety products are not sold or passed on to the consumer.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	30467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Product safety legislation is in place to protect consumers, and is enforced by Trading Standards, who also enforce prohibitions against giving false information about products under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. Where safety products bear a false trade mark, or deliberately copy a registered design, Trading Standards also have the ability to take enforcement action under intellectual property legislation.</p><p> </p><p>The Consumer Rights Act 2015 sets out the standards consumers can expect of the goods they obtain from traders and remedies if these rights are breached. The standards include the need for goods to be of satisfactory quality (including being fit for the purposes for which goods of that kind are usually supplied, being safe, and matching any description the goods were sold under), fit for a particular purpose (if that purpose was made known before sale), and as described . If these requirements are breached, consumers are entitled to reject the goods (if in the first 30 days), or require the trader to repair or replace the goods.</p><p> </p><p>Consumers can seek advice from the helpline run by Citizen’s Advice which offers a free service advising them on their rights and passes on details of complaints to Trading Standards where appropriate.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/03/2016 15:32:52 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 51205 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

458863

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Construction Industry Training Board: 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 recent representations he has received from the Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians on the effect of proposed changes to the budget for training expertise of the Construction Industry Training Board on the future of the construction industry.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	30416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>We have received no direct recent representations from the Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians. We continue to engage in discussions with the Industry Training Boards on the implications for the construction and engineering construction industry levies of the apprenticeship levy which will be introduced in April 2017.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 17/03/2016 16:19:13 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

458871

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Living Wage
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 cost to (a) private and (b) public sector organisations of implementing the National Living Wage in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s Impact Assessment for the introduction of the National Living Wage estimates that the cost of increasing pay to the £7.20 rate on private sector and public sector employers will be approximately £800m and £36m respectively in 2016/17. The Government has not produced an estimate for each of the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 15:33:47 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458972

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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: Young People
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 increase the national minimum wage for under 18s to the same rate as the adult level.
tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
uin	30546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>For younger workers, the priority is to secure work and gain valuable experience – something that is reflected in the existing age structure of the National Minimum Wage.</p><p>On 14<sup>th</sup> April my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced an increase in the 16-17 year old National Minimum Wage rate by 3.4% (13p) to £4.00 per hour. This is the fastest and largest increase since 2008.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 15:32:31 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

458986

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	Holiday Accommodation: Prices
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 has conducted an assessment of the findings of the (a) French parliament and (b) German competition authority on the effects of rate parity clauses on competition in the hospitality sector; and what plans he has to ban rate parity clauses.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	30570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>My Department has not conducted an assessment of these findings and has no plans to ban such clauses.</p><p> </p><p>Any assessment of the impact of rate parity clauses on competition and consumers falls within the remit of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is the UK’s primary competition and consumer authority.</p><p>One of the CMA’s predecessors, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), launched an investigation into alleged resale price maintenance in arrangements between a hotel group and two online travel agents (OTAs), Booking.com and Expedia. The OFT accepted commitments from the OTAs concerned but in September 2014 the Competition Appeal Tribunal partly upheld an appeal by a third party, Skyscanner, and remitted the case back to the CMA for consideration. On 16 September 2015, following a fresh look at the case, the CMA decided to close the investigation on administrative priority grounds. The case closure summary can be found on the CMA’s website.</p><p> </p><p>The CMA keeps these issues under review and is working closely with other national competition authorities and the European Commission to do this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 30/03/2016 07:53:29 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah