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458861

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	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

458387

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what restrictions there are on who is allowed to access LMI for All data; and what assessment his Department or the UK Commission for Employment and Skills has made of how that data is being used by third parties.
tabling member constituency	South East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Lucy Frazer
uin	30164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>There are no restrictions to accessing LMI for All.The data in LMI for All is made available via an Application Programming Interface (API) for use in websites and applications. Neither the Department nor the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) evaluates or assesses the impact of third party applications and websites although UKCES tracks the use of the LMI for All service by such websites and applications. A report containing detailed case studies focusing on specific applications is currently under preparation and will be published this year.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 13:55:56 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer

458388

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the data collected by the Government for use in the LMI for All programme includes the (a) school attended, (b) A-levels studied, (c) subject taken at university, (d) name of the university, (e) apprenticeship taken, where appropriate, (f) employment subject area, (g) salary earned and (h) name of employer for the individuals recorded; and what his policy is on continuing the provision of LMI for All.
tabling member constituency	South East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Lucy Frazer
uin	30154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>LMI for All does not contain information about individual people. It is an online open source data service which brings together public labour market information from organisations such as the Office for National Statistics and the Higher Education Statistics Agency.</p><p>It has been agreed that LMI for All will transfer to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills later this year.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/03/2016 17:22:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer

458389

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
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 potential merits of the collection and use of LMI for All data.
tabling member constituency	South East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Lucy Frazer
uin	30155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has consulted the Devolved Administrations and other users of labour market information on future research priorities. This identified the importance of LMI for All data, and it has been agreed that LMI for All will transfer to BIS later this year.</p><p>The UK Commission for Employment and Skills tracks the use of the LMI for All service by such websites and applications. Current users of LMI for All include careers websites such as icould, SACU, RCU and Plotr. In addition, Active Informatics, and National Careers Service contractor Adviza are using LMI for All in their subscription based services offered to schools, colleges and universities. A number of government departments and agencies, including the Department for Work and Pensions, National Careers Service and Skills Development Scotland are also developing resources and tools that draw upon LMI for All. A report containing detailed case studies focusing on specific applications is currently under preparation and will be published this year.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/03/2016 17:21:58 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer

458396

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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
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 businesses have been (a) charged with and (b) successfully prosecuted for non-payment of the minimum wage in each year from the minimum wage coming into force up to 2010.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	30267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Prosecution is reserved for the most serious cases. In most cases the Government applies civil sanctions, of up to £20,000 per worker, which are appropriate in the great majority of cases, and ensure a worker is paid back the arrears they are owed as quickly as possible. There is no guarantee that prosecution will result in arrears being paid back to the workers.</p><p>With the agreement of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, HMRC started considering prosecution for minimum wage offences from May 2006. The first prosecution for an offence under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 took place in 2007. Table 1 sets out the number of NMW prosecutions in each year since this date, all of which were successful.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Successful NMW prosecutions </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of NMW prosecutions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/04/2016 14:45:40 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

458397

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	UK Commission for Employment and Skills: Internet
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 webhits by visitors have been recorded accessing UKCES's (a) 2015, (b) 2014 and (c) 2013 Employer Survey.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	30248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>The results from UKCES surveys of employers are published across a number of pages owing to the range of outputs that can be produced from the surveys and the various user audiences.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Survey</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Period</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Page views for main report on gov.uk</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Unique views for main report on gov.uk</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a) UK Employer Skills Survey 2015</p></td><td><p>Jan 28<sup>th</sup> 2016 to 8<sup>th</sup> March 2016</p></td><td><p>5,988</p></td><td><p>4,147</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b) UK Employer Perspectives Survey 2014</p></td><td><p>13<sup>th</sup> Nov 2014 to 8<sup>th</sup> March 2016</p></td><td><p>8,490</p></td><td><p>5,869</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c) UK Employer Skills Survey 2013</p></td><td><p>1<sup>st</sup> Feb 2014 to 8<sup>th</sup> March 2016</p></td><td><p>20,222</p></td><td><p>14,261</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 13:57:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

458398

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
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 organisations have accessed LMI research produced by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	30300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government has committed to open up data for public use wherever possible to maximise the utility of the data and the potential economic benefits they could offer. The nature of open data means we cannot say how many individual organisations have accessed UK Commission for Employment and Skills LMI research in total.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 13:58:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

458399

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
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 ensure that the Employer Skills Survey and Employer Perspectives Survey will continue to be free to access.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	30301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>The survey reports that will be produced from future Employer Skills Surveys and Employer Perspectives Surveys will continue to be made publicly available through the gov.uk website. The data sets will continue to be made available through the data archive at the UK data service. There are no plans to charge for access to any outputs from either survey series in future.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 13:56:37 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

458405

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Universities: Zero Hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with Universities UK on the number of staff employed by UK universities on zero-hours contracts.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	30383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>None. Universities are self-governing, independent institutions and are responsible for taking decisions on issues such as their staffing and contracting arrangements.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 13:48:26 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

458416

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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: Small Businesses
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 estimate the cost to small and medium-sized enterprises of implementing the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30319
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 the cost of the initial £7.20 rate will be just under £530 million in total for small, micro and medium sized businesses.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 15:28:17 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith