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47122

registered interest
date	07/04/2014
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
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 he has made of the potential effect of reform of apprenticeships resulting from the Richard Review on the cost of training new (a) ratings and (b) officer cadets in the maritime industry; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Katy Clark
uin	195525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Different apprenticeship programmes operate in England and Scotland. Doug Richard's Review focused on English apprenticeships and he made a number of recommendations to make the programme more rigorous and responsive to employers' needs. The Government accepted the Richard Review principles and set out its apprenticeship reform programme in the October 2013 Implementation Plan.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms include employers developing new apprenticeship standards, requiring employers to co-invest, putting the Government funding for the external training and assessment of apprentices in the hands of their employers and setting maximum Government contribution levels. With direct access to funding, employers will be able to negotiate a price for the training with their provider, and this means it is not possible in advance of the reforms to say what the costs of training apprentices in specific occupations will be.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Maritime sector has a long tradition of apprenticeships which we wish to continue. English apprenticeships are currently available for Maritime occupations and employers in the sector are currently designing a new apprenticeship standard for ratings as part of our Phase 2 Trailblazer programme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recognised through Alternative Completion Conditions Regulations that, in some maritime occupations, apprentices may be trainees rather than employees. The apprenticeships funding reform technical consultation is open until 1 May 2014 and this includes a question about how, or to what extent, the new funding principles and mechanism can be applied to non-employed apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

46704

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 number of people who run a small or medium-sized enterprise as a secondary form of income alongside another job.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	195098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>Information is not available to answer this question. However, data from the Office for National Statistics estimate that around 400,000 people describe themselves as self employed in their second jobs between October 2012 and September 2013.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

46706

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 increase the availability of credit for small businesses in (a) Bolton North East constituency and (b) England in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	195045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring businesses can access the finance they need for investment and growth.</p><p> </p><p>The Bank of England and HM Treasury announced in November that the Funding for Lending scheme would be focused on lending to businesses to reflect the success that the scheme has had with households. Lending under the Funding for Lending Scheme has totalled over £16bn according to the latest figures.</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank is being established to ensure that business finance markets work efficiently and effectively for smaller businesses, and its loan guarantee and investment programmes supported £660 million of lending and investment in 2013 across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of the value of debt finance facilitated to businesses in Bolton North East constituency and England through British Business Bank programmes in the last year is detailed in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Enterprise</strong><strong> Finance Guarantee Scheme (drawn down)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Up Loans Scheme </strong></p><p><strong>(drawn down)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lending facilitated by the Business Finance Partnership</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bolton North East Constituency</p></td><td><p>7 Loans with a value of £1.14m</p></td><td><p>24 loans with a value of £117 330</p></td><td><p>North West Region: 462 loans with a value of nearly £ 27m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>2857 loans with a value of £307.6 million</p></td><td><p>13432 with a value over £75m</p></td><td><p>3721 loans provided with a value of nearly £226m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

46829

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 apprentices aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) 25 years or over are employed at each of his Department's executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and associated bodies and agencies.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	195212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>I have asked chief executives of the Executive agencies to respond directly to the Hon Member.</p><p> </p><p>Until 2013, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills did not keep a record of the age of internal apprentices. The table shows the age of both externally recruited apprentices since 2010 and ages of those apprentices embarking on the Departments' internal apprenticeship programme in 2013. The 2013 figure refers to the ages of those on the Departments' internal programme. There are no externally recruited apprentices in the 25 years or over category.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16 to 18</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19 to 24</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>25 years or over</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Department for Business Innovation and Skills currently has 53 apprentices. We have had 4 successful completions this year.</p><p> </p><p>16 of these 53 apprentices are under the age of 21 with a further 6 apprentices under 21 expected to join the Department later in the year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name 195212 - Executive Agencies.pdf title Letters from BIS' Executive Agencies (9)
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

46832

registered interest
date	03/04/2014
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
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 apprentices aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) between 19 and 24 and (c) 25 years or over are employed at the Competition and Markets Authority.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	195281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority employs no apprentices at this time.</p><p> </p><p>As a supporter of apprenticeships, the Government launched the first Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme in 2013.</p><p> </p><p>As at September 2013, the most recent date for which figures are available, the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme had 100 18-21 year old apprentices employed in permanent posts across government on the 2-year scheme.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

46442

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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
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 (a) median and (b) mean (i) annual and (ii) hourly salary is for (A) men and (B) women in Government-sponsored apprenticeship schemes; and what those figures were in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	195007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>In 2012, the median gross hourly wage for an Apprentice in England was £6.09. The mean was £6.21. In 2011, the equivalent gross hourly wages were £5.83 and £5.80.</p><p> </p><p>For females, in 2011, the median gross hourly wage was £5.96 and the mean £5.88. In 2012, these were £6.19 and £6.23 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>For males, in 2011, the median gross hourly wage was £5.43 and the mean £5.71. In 2012, these were £5.93 and £6.19 respectively.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the only available data we have for Apprenticeship Pay is for 2012 and 2011, from the two Apprenticeship Pay Surveys (APS). These surveys do not calculate an annual wage from the survey responses as the hours Apprentices work are variable. There was a pay survey conducted in 2007, but this is not considered to be comparable with the two later years.</p><p> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2012</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 5033 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

46445

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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
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 people who are (a) under 18, (b) 18 to 21 and (c) 22 or over have completed an apprenticeship in each year since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	195016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of apprenticeship achievements by age are published in a supplementary table to the Statistical First Release:</p><p><a title="blocked::https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2</a><br> <br><a title="blocked::https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296345/apprenticeship-achievements-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsm" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296345/apprenticeship-achievements-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsm" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/296345/apprenticeship-achievements-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsm</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

46457

registered interest
date	02/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to publish his Department's response to the consultation on Building a responsible payment culture.
tabling member constituency	Oldham East and Saddleworth
tabling member printed	Debbie Abrahams
uin	194885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>We are currently analysing responses to the Government's discussion paper on building a more responsible payment culture and will publish the response shortly.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4212 label Biography information for Debbie Abrahams

46172

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
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
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 apprenticeships were started in the Brigg and Goole constituency in each industrial sector in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	194612
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p>Apprenticeship data are not available by industrial sector. Within an industry, a learner may undertake a wide range of Apprenticeship frameworks.</p><p> </p><p>Data are available by Sector Subject Area. Table 1 shows the number of Apprenticeship starts from 2008/09 to 2012/13 in Brigg and Goole constituency by Sector Subject Area.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area in Brigg and Goole Parliamentary Constituency, 2008/09 to 2012/13</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sector Subject Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2008/09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Agriculture, Horticulture and Animal Care</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Business, Administration and Law</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>240</p></td><td><p>310</p></td><td><p>280</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Construction, Planning and the Built Environment</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Education and Training</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Health, Public Services and Care</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>230</p></td><td><p>310</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information and Communication Technology</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leisure, Travel and Tourism</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retail and Commercial Enterprise</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>170</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Science and Mathematics</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 440 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 460 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 810 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 950 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 1,020 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Individualised Learner Record</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ol type="1"><li>Geography information is based on the learners' home postcode</li><li>Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10</li><li>‘-‘ indicates a base values of less than 5</li><li>Figures for 2011/12 onwards are not directly comparable to earlier years due to the introduction of the Single ILR: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140107201041/http:/www.thedataservice.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C05DCDD5-67EE-4AD0-88B9-BEBC8F7F3300/0/SILR_Effects_SFR_Learners_June12.pdf" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140107201041/http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C05DCDD5-67EE-4AD0-88B9-BEBC8F7F3300/0/SILR_Effects_SFR_Learners_June12.pdf</a></li></ol><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

46173

registered interest
date	01/04/2014
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
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 collect data by constituency on apprenticeships in each industrial sector.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	194613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>We do not collect information centrally on Apprenticeships by industrial sector at the Parliamentary Constituency level. Table 1 shows information from the 2012[1] UKCES Employer Perspectives Survey on the proportion of employers that offer formal Apprenticeships by industrial sector in the UK.</p><p /> <p /> <p>Information on Apprenticeship starts by Sector Subject Area and geography is published in a Supplementary Table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p /> <p><strong> </strong></p><p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships--2</a></p><p /> <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/308418/apprenticeship-starts-by-region-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/308418/apprenticeship-starts-by-region-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p><p /> <p> </p><p /> <p>Sector Subject Areas are not the same as industrial sectors. Within an industrial sector a learner may undertake a wide range of Apprenticeship frameworks, and individual frameworks are assigned under the Sector Subject Area classification.</p><p /> <p /> <p /> <p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1]<a href="http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/evidence-report-64-ukces-employer-perspectives-survey-2012-full-report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/evidence-report-64-ukces-employer-perspectives-survey-2012-full-report.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock attachment 1 file name UIN 194613 - Apprenticeships by Sector table.doc title Table 1: Apprenticeships by Industrial Sector
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy