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769047

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date	11/10/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Foreign Companies: Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when the Government plans to bring forward proposals to establish a register showing who owns and controls overseas legal entities which own property in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	107277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The responses to the call for evidence are currently being analysed and a response will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/10/2017 12:57:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

753040

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Directors: Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to encourage gender-balanced representation in boards.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	5578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to seeing greater diversity on FTSE boards. The Department has supported and promoted various diversity initiatives to promote gender diversity on boards and across the public sector:</p><ul><li>Since 2010, the Lord Davies business –led voluntary approach which has seen the proportion of women on FTSE 350 boards increase from 9.5% in 2011 to 23.5% in July 2017;</li><li>The subsequent Hampton-Alexander Review and its business-led target of 33% women on FTSE 350 boards by 2020;</li><li>In conjunction with UK Government Investments, actively supporting the Future Boards Scheme, a business-led initiative to help talented, senior women get board-level development opportunities and gain the experience they need to successfully apply for board positions;</li><li>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Margot James, setting up a Business Diversity and Inclusion Group to improve the coordination of business diversity initiatives and provide a clear and coherent message on what is expected of the business community;</li><li>Wanting to see greater diversity on boards across all sectors including the public and third sectors, and the Government has a further aspiration that 50% of new public appointees should be women.</li></ul><p> </p><p>All of these various initiatives will contribute to our continued efforts to ensure gender-balanced representation and that boardrooms reflect their workforces and wider society.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 20/07/2017 16:15:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

710668

registered interest
date	13/03/2017
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Post Offices: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what analysis his Department has conducted of the future capacity of the Post Office, to meet its commitment, that 95 per cent of the total rural population is within three miles of a post office outlet.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	67521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has committed to secure the future of 3,000 rural post offices in its manifesto and recognises the importance of post offices to communities across the UK, particularly to its more remote customers. That is why Government has invested significantly in modernisation and transformation of that network, helping to ensure its long-term sustainability. The network of branches is at its most stable in decades, and nearly 99% of the UK rural population lives within three miles of a post office.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 16/03/2017 14:56:55 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry

536718

registered interest
date	15/07/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Companies House: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will review the oversight, operational procedures and response times of interactions with customers by Companies House.
tabling member constituency	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
tabling member printed	Drew Hendry
uin	42898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>Companies House continually reviews its operational procedures and response times as part of its normal business strategy.</p><p> </p><p>Companies House endeavours to respond to customer queries within a maximum of 10 working days but aims to provide prompt responses well within this time. At present, Companies House is implementing a new finance system, including updating its debt collection process As a result, from February to August 2016, the response time for some enquiries is being extended to 21 days. Once this temporary work is concluded the response targets will revert back to the 10-day target. This is expected to be at the end of August.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 06:56:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4467 label Biography information for Drew Hendry