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65639

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Business: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support and protection the Government provides to UK businesses experiencing cyber attacks.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	203893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The UK Cyber Security Strategy, published in November 2011, sets out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public's way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment. A £860 million National Cyber Security Programme is in place to 2016 to deliver the objectives of the strategy. These objectives include making the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business in cyberspace, and making the UK more resilient to cyber attack and better able to protect our interests in cyberspace.</p><p>Government is working closely with industry to address the threat and impact of cyber attacks. These measures include:</p><p>o Creating a National Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT UK which works closely with industry, Government and academia to enhance UK cyber resilience. It provides support to Critical National Infrastructure companies to handle cyber security incidents. The Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), part of CERT UK, enables companies to share information and intelligence on cyber security threats.</p><p>o The creation of a Government approved list of Cyber Incident ‘Clean Up' companies which can help companies respond effectively to incidents and get them up and running as soon as possible.</p><p>o Advice and guidance resources including the '10 Steps to Cyber Security' guidance, the CyberStreetwise behaviour change campaign <a href="http://www.cyberstreetwise.com/" target="_blank">www.cyberstreetwise.com</a> and the Government and industry funded GetSafeOnline <a href="http://www.getsafeonline.org/" target="_blank">www.getsafeonline.org</a>.</p><p>o The Government-backed and industry approved Cyber Essentials scheme, which enables businesses to certify themselves against core technical cyber requirements and implement a basic level of cyber hygiene against cyber threats.</p><p>o Practical support for small businesses with the Cyber Security Innovation Vouchers Scheme to enable individual businesses to receive £5,000 to increase their cyber security.</p><p>o Support for industry initiatives such as Nominet's ‘Cyber Assist' pilot service for small and medium-sized enterprises experiencing cyber attacks.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:50:57 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

65640

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Intellectual Property: Brighton
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 has taken to encourage the development of intellectual property in (a) Brighton, Kemptown and (b) Brighton and Hove; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) provides support and information on how to make the most of all forms of intellectual property (IP) to businesses on a national basis. In 2013 the IPO launched <em>IP for Business, </em>a set of online training tools and advice to help businesses understand IP and how it can be used within a business to generate revenue. The IPO also funds 300 IP audits, targeted through partners at high growth businesses across the UK. Over the last year the IPO has spoken to 18000 people through seminars, workshops and events; since October 2013, 276 businesses have benefited from face-to-face information and support from the IPO at seven events in the Brighton area – including Brighton, Lewes, Crawley and Bognor Regis. In addition, the IPO has a national consumer's campaign focussing on awareness raising and encouraging respect of IP.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:56:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

65645

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Intellectual Property
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 improve the protection of intellectual property in the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting all Intellectual Property rights and has taken a number of steps recently to help rights holders protect and enforce their intellectual property. These include funding a dedicated police IP Crime Unit within the City of London police; making the intentional copying of registered designs a criminal offence; and introducing reforms to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, including the introduction of a ‘small claims track' to help businesses gain access to justice at proportional cost to what is at stake.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:58:02 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

65646

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	New Businesses: Technology
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 encourage technology-based start-ups to develop in towns and cities outside London.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Information Economy Strategy published in June 2013 sets out the Government's plans to help digital technology-based businesses start up and thrive throughout the UK.</p><p>This Department is supporting Tech City UK's work with the UK Tech Cluster Alliance network. A key role of the Alliance which currently contains 13 clusters located throughout the UK, is to promote and facilitate connections and identify common barriers to growth.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:53:53 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

65278

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	British Library Business and IP 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 assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the British Library's Business & IP Centre national network.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	203556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office worked with the British Library Business and IP Centre (BIPC) to develop a national blueprint that other libraries can use to develop a business and IP service in key UK cities. A programme to initially embed the blueprint into Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield was launched in July 2013. It is too early to provide impact data for the whole network, but data for the BIPC London and BIPC Newcastle, based on user feedback, shows that:</p><ul><li>Almost 50% of users increased their awareness of the importance of intellectual property</li><li>Over 40% were helped to develop their ideas</li><li>Over 40% were able to understand their customers and markets better</li><li>Almost a third acquired new skills through workshops</li><li>Close to a quarter were helped to write their business plan</li><li>Over 20% were helped to protect and exploit their novel ideas/designs</li></ul><p>In total the two centres helped to create approximately 2800 businesses and have further created approximately 3500 additional jobs in new and existing businesses.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:19:26 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

65279

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	British Library Business and IP 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 assessment his Department has made of the contribution to the economy of the British Library's Business & IP Centre national network.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	203557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office worked with the British Library Business and IP Centre (BIPC) to develop a national blueprint that other libraries can use to develop a business and IP service in key UK cities. A programme to initially embed the blueprint into Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield was launched in July 2013. To date performance data is only available from the BIPC London and BIPC Newcastle. This shows an average turnover increase of £8.80 in London and £6.23 in Newcastle per £1 of public money invested.</p><p>In addition £47.1 million in London and £2 million in Newcastle of net Gross Value Added has been generated, equating to £8.13 in London and £4.11 in Newcastle of GVA per £1 of public money invested.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:23:30 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

65280

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	British Library Business and IP 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 estimate his Department has made of the number of jobs created in partnership with the British Library's Business & IP Centre national network.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	203558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office worked with the British Library Business and IP Centre (BIPC) to develop a national blueprint that other libraries can use to develop a business and IP service in key UK cities. A programme to initially embed the blueprint into Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield was launched in July 2013. It is too early to provide impact data for the whole network, but data for the BIPC London and BIPC Newcastle shows that since they opened these two centres have helped to create approximately 2800 businesses and 3500 jobs in new and existing businesses.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:21:30 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

65382

registered interest
date	02/07/2014
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	Higher Education: Libraries
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 steps he has taken to improve transparency in the procurement processes of university libraries.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	203635
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>Higher education institutions are independent, autonomous bodies. As such, they are responsible for their own procurement policies and the transparency of their processes. Universities are able to draw upon the Higher Education Procurement Academy, a sector-led initiative to improve expertise and capacity in UK university procurement.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:04:32 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin

64885

registered interest
date	01/07/2014
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	Higher Education: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of research and development contracts undertaken by publicly-funded universities for private companies are covered by clauses that prohibit the publication of the research and development results on grounds of commercial confidentiality; and what proportion of such contracts are undertaken in facilities paid for by the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	203269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Higher Education-Business and Community Interaction survey showed that contract research from business carried out by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) amounted to £441m in 12-13. However, information is not held on the precise terms of these contracts or the physical locations in which they are fulfilled.</p><p>Where an HEI is in receipt of research grants from the science budget and HE funding bodies, a requirement of the funding is that the outcomes are made publicly available, although HEIs are also encouraged to secure necessary intellectual property protection to enable subsequent exploitation. The Government is also implementing a policy of “Open Access” to the published findings of this publicly funded research. In the case of research consultancy, where the research is entirely funded by business, then the outcome would normally be owned by the business.</p><p>Government is committed to ensure the application of research and getting universities and business working more closely together. World Economic Forum evaluation now ranks UK among the top 5 in the world for university-industry collaboration in R&amp;D. Individual institutions have obligations under State Aid regulations and under their Charity status to ensure that their contract work with business is managed appropriately.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 08/07/2014 16:07:18 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn