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747569

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Self-employed and Small Businesses: Taxation
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 recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on proposed changes to the filing of tax returns for smaller businesses and people who are self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	2617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>I and my departmental colleagues regularly hold discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Ministerial colleagues on a range of topics including the filing of tax returns for smaller businesses and the self-employed. The Government is committed to making it easier for taxpayers to get their tax right and reducing the level of the tax gap from avoidable errors. HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative is a key component of doing this. The Government is considering the consultation feedback received to ensure the successful implementation of MTD.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 14:34:44 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

747570

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Private Sector: Billing
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 representations he has received from smaller businesses on the timeliness of the payment of invoices in the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	2618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has received representations on this issue through a variety of channels, including in response to public consultations. The Secretary of State is committed to action in this area, including through the recently introduced statutory duty for large businesses to report on their payment practices and performance, the voluntary Prompt Payment Code, and the incoming Small Business Commissioner.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 15:17:39 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

747571

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Public Companies: Directors
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 require the workforce to be represented on boards of public limited companies.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	2614
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is committed to strengthening the voice of the workforce at boardroom level. The Government’s green paper on Corporate Governance Reform sought views on a range of options for achieving this including the creation of stakeholder advisory panels, designating non-executive directors to ensure that the voices of key interested groups, especially that of employees, is being heard at board level, and appointing individual employee or stakeholder representatives to company boards. The Government will publish its response to the green paper consultation in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 16:18:23 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

747572

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Small Business Commissioner: Public Appointments
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 he plans to announce the appointment of a Small Business Commissioner.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	2615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The appointment process for the Small Business Commissioner is ongoing, with an announcement due to be made once this has concluded.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 14:56:17 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

747573

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Self-employed: National Insurance Contributions
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 recent discussions he has had with his ministerial colleagues on proposed changes to national insurance contributions for people who are self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	2616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State has regular discussions with Ministerial colleagues on a number of issues.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 15:02:18 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

747719

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Minimum Wage: Unpaid Taxes
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 the total sum of arrears recovered by HM Revenue and Customs was for non-compliance with the national minimum wage in 2016-17; how many (a) workers and (b) employers those arrears relate to; how much of that total sum of arrears was recovered through the self-correction mechanism introduced in 2015; and how many (i) workers and (ii) employers those self-corrected arrears relate to.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>Enforcement statistics for the 2016/17 reporting year will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 14:33:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

747721

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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	Employment Tribunals Service: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Answer of 11 January 2017 to Question 58968, how many (a) warning letters and (b) financial penalty notices have been issued to respondent employers to date under section 150 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 for failure to pay an employment tribunal award; how many of those financial penalties (i) have been paid and (ii) remain unpaid; and how much in previously unpaid awards has been recovered by his Department following (A) the issuing of a warning letter only and (B) the issuing of both a warning letter and a financial penalty notice.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>Since April 2016, when the penalty regime for failure to pay employment tribunal awards started, 349 warning letters and 152 penalty notices have been issued.</p><p>Four financial penalties have been paid and 148 remain unpaid. Of these, 101 are being pursued through a debt collection agency, 20 were withdrawn because the employment tribunal award was paid, 10 are not enforceable due to liquidation and/or insolvency and 17 are within the payment period.</p><p>Over £500,000 in previously unpaid awards has been recovered following the issuing of only a warning letter. Over £91,000 has been recovered as a result of issuing both a warning letter and a penalty notice.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/07/2017 16:17:17 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

747085

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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	Holiday Leave
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 of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy of 27 June 2017, Official Report, columns 457-8W, on workers' rights, what powers the Government has made available to HM Revenue and Customs to sanction companies withholding employees' paid holiday allowance; and on how many occasions such powers have been used.
tabling member constituency	Batley and Spen
tabling member printed	Tracy Brabin
uin	2293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs has no powers to sanction companies for withholding holiday pay.</p><p>However, HM Revenue and Customs plays a vital role in enforcing the National Minimum Wage and the Government has continued to strengthen enforcement action in this area.</p><p>More broadly, the Government has asked Matthew Taylor to consider new forms of work such as the ‘gig economy’ and self-employment, and their implications on employee rights and responsibilities, employer freedoms and obligations, and the existing regulatory framework surrounding employment.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 05/07/2017 16:21:16 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4588 label Biography information for Tracy Brabin

746727

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	Small Businesses: Scotland
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 support small business growth in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
uin	1947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Support for businesses in Scotland is largely a devolved matter, and <a href="https://www.mygov.scot/business/" target="_blank">https://www.mygov.scot/business/</a> provides advice to people starting, running and growing a business, including a section on funding and grants in Scotland. In addition, British Business Bank (BBB) programmes are supporting finance to smaller businesses. As at end of December 2016, BBB programmes were supporting over £1.4m* to small businesses in East Renfrewshire. This includes 33 start-up loans totalling over £170,000.</p><p>Alongside designing and delivering programmes through its partners, the British Business Bank works to promote the provision of better information in the market to increase smaller businesses’ understanding of the finance options available to them. The Business Finance Guide (<a href="http://www.thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/bbb" target="_blank">http://www.thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/bbb</a> ) sets out the different sources of finance available to businesses – from start-ups to SMEs and growing mid-sized companies.</p><p>In order to support innovation by small businesses, Innovate UK awarded 99 projects to SMEs in Scotland with a commitment of £16.7 million in 2016/17.</p><p>Small businesses in Scotland also benefit from UK-wide initiatives to encourage investment, for example the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. If they have business premises, small businesses will also benefit from the Small Business Bonus Scheme and receive 100% relief on their rates bill for property valued below £10,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em>*this does not include ENABLE funding data as this is not available at a constituency level</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 1948 question first answered 05/07/2017 16:22:12 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton

746728

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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	Small Businesses: East Renfrewshire
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 support micro-enterprises in East Renfrewshire constituency.
tabling member constituency	East Renfrewshire
tabling member printed	Paul Masterton
uin	1948
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>Support for businesses in Scotland is largely a devolved matter, and <a href="https://www.mygov.scot/business/" target="_blank">https://www.mygov.scot/business/</a> provides advice to people starting, running and growing a business, including a section on funding and grants in Scotland. In addition, British Business Bank (BBB) programmes are supporting finance to smaller businesses. As at end of December 2016, BBB programmes were supporting over £1.4m* to small businesses in East Renfrewshire. This includes 33 start-up loans totalling over £170,000.</p><p>Alongside designing and delivering programmes through its partners, the British Business Bank works to promote the provision of better information in the market to increase smaller businesses’ understanding of the finance options available to them. The Business Finance Guide (<a href="http://www.thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/bbb" target="_blank">http://www.thebusinessfinanceguide.co.uk/bbb</a> ) sets out the different sources of finance available to businesses – from start-ups to SMEs and growing mid-sized companies.</p><p>In order to support innovation by small businesses, Innovate UK awarded 99 projects to SMEs in Scotland with a commitment of £16.7 million in 2016/17.</p><p>Small businesses in Scotland also benefit from UK-wide initiatives to encourage investment, for example the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. If they have business premises, small businesses will also benefit from the Small Business Bonus Scheme and receive 100% relief on their rates bill for property valued below £10,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em>*this does not include ENABLE funding data as this is not available at a constituency level</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 1947 question first answered 05/07/2017 16:22:12 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4625 label Biography information for Paul Masterton