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809616

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Credit Cards: Debts
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 assessment he has made of the contribution of credit card debt to personal insolvency over the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	120254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service regularly assesses how changes in debt levels impact on the number of personal insolvencies. It considers a wide range of economic indicators to determine which has the greater impact on levels of personal insolvency. Over the last five years, the analysis has shown that total household debt is a better indicator of personal insolvency movements than levels of credit card debt.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/01/2018 15:45:16 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

809689

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120309
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has answered 1675 Written Parliamentary Questions so far this session as of 21<sup>st</sup> December. Of these, 3 questions (0.18% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collated and 4 questions (0.24% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collected centrally.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has answered 1675 Written Parliamentary Questions so far this session as of 21<sup>st</sup> December. Of these, 4 questions (0.24% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collected and 3 questions (0.18% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collated centrally.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 28/12/2017 13:32:20 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:41 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 32489 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809710

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Offshore Industry: North Sea
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 steps he is taking to ensure that National Minimum Wage rates are (a) applied and (b) enforced for seafarers employed to work on oil and gas decommissioning projects on the UK continental shelf.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	120330
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) Order 1999 applies the 1998 National Minimum Wage Act to offshore employment in the territorial waters of the UK and the UK sector of the continental shelf.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is clear that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or National Living Wage (NLW) should receive it. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigates every complaint it receives and workers can call the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) Helpline (on 0300 123 1100) for information and guidance about the NMW, or visit their website (<a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.acas.org.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Government has established the Legal Working Group on Seafarers to improve the guidance on these matters, and to ensure seafarers are aware of their rights.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/01/2018 15:45:16 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

809740

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	New Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the oral contribution the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on 12 December 2017, Official Report, column 166, if he will publish the evidential basis supporting the UK's position as No 4 in the world for being the best place to start a business.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	120360
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/12/2017 answer text <p>According to the World Bank <em>Ease of Doing Business </em>report 2018 the UK is ranked as 4th in the EU for the ease of starting a business and 14th in the world. This is in line with correspondence I have exchanged with the hon. Member for Sefton Central in which I clarified a response I made to this House on 12 December 2017, and I have placed a copy of this correspondence in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 29/12/2017 12:30:59 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

809744

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Gratuities
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 his Department plans to publish the response to the consultation on Tips, gratuities, cover and service charges which closed on 27 June 2016.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Sir David Crausby
uin	120364
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">Neither my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State, nor I have had discussions with charities about the impact of these rules on their work.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The State aid rules apply to funding given to charities, as they would for any other body, where they are involved in economic activities. The rules are blind as to legal form; rather they are concerned with whether an entity is undertaking economic activities. And equally State aid may be granted legally to charities on the same terms as anyone else if it complies with the rules.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government is considering the responses to this consultation, and will respond in due course.</ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/12/2017 14:11:06 question first ministerially corrected 08/01/2018 10:28:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 32347 answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

809829

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Social Mobility
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 steps his Department has taken to improve social mobility in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120449
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was formed in 2016.</p><p>Internal efforts on improving social mobility since the creation of the Department have included various talent schemes such as our Summer Diversity Internship Programme. We are fully committed to working with the Cabinet Office on addressing social mobility issues through the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy which was launched in October; this will include creating a standard measurement for social mobility which all Departments will be able to use in their activity on this area.</p><p>The assessment of wider societal impacts is an integral part of policy development in the Department, including applying the family test and compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty as specified in the Equality Act 2010<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 22/12/2017 11:41:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809866

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Working Hours: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of the full-time workforce choose to opt out of the Working Time Directive.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	120486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not routinely collect comprehensive information about how many workers opt-out of the 48 hour maximum working week.</p><p> </p><p>However, the Department conducted a review of the impact of the Working Time Regulations in 2014. The review reports roughly one third (32 per cent) of British workplaces had at least one employee who had signed an opt-out agreement in 2011.</p><p> </p><p>Labour Force Survey analysis shows that the proportion of employees usually working over 48 hours a week has also declined over time. 13 per cent of all employees worked over 48 hours a week in 2013, compared to 18 per cent in 1997.</p><p> </p><p>More information can be found in the Department’s review of the impact of the Working Time Regulations:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389676/bis-14-1287-the-impact-of-the-working-time-regulations-on-the-uk-labour-market-a-review-of-evidence.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389676/bis-14-1287-the-impact-of-the-working-time-regulations-on-the-uk-labour-market-a-review-of-evidence.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 08/01/2018 16:09:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

809877

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Money Laundering
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 steps the Government is taking to identify (a) the incorporation of legal entities not within the scope of the persons of significant control regime and (b) other such money laundering risks related to trends in company activity.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Legal entities not in scope of the persons of significant control regime are entities which are outside the UK’s framework of company and partnership law. The relevant incorporation rules will be set in the relevant legislation. They may be subject to separate regulatory process and oversight, for example by the Charities Commission or the Financial Reporting Council, or exist by will of Parliament, such as legal entities in the health and education sectors and other government arm’s length bodies.</p><p>The UK’s most recent National Risk Assessment was published on 26 October 2017.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/12/2017 16:48:01 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

809878

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Companies: Ownership
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 steps the Government is taking to identify and implement measures to verify beneficial ownership information submitted by offshore corporate partners.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Companies House undertakes numerous checks on the validity of information, both at incorporation and throughout the life of the company as new information is submitted. They work very closely with other law enforcement agencies analysing data and patterns to identify suspicious behaviour.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/12/2017 16:50:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

809879

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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	Companies
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 steps the Government is taking to facilitate the tracing of who is setting up and administering UK companies.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	120499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 established specific obligations upon trust or company service providers, requiring such entities carrying on business in the UK to be subject to a fitness and propriety test, and to register with either Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs or the Financial Conduct Authority. The Government will also shortly formally establish the Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision within the Financial Conduct Authority. This will work to ensure consistently high standards of anti-money laundering supervision by professional bodies, including of TCSPs.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 21/12/2017 16:52:50 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead