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222386

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) Operational Programmes for 2014-20 have been (a) agreed with and (b) authorised by the European Commission for (i) England, (ii) Wales, (iii) Scotland and (iv) Northern Ireland; and when he expects ESIF for 2014-20 to be released to local enterprise partnerships in each of these areas.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	224798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The status of the ESIF Operational Programmes in the United Kingdom is as follows:-</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>i) England</p><p> </p><p>The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) programme for England was formally adopted by the Commission on 13 February 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ii) Wales</p><p> </p><p>The Operational Programmes for West Wales &amp; the Valleys ERDF and East Wales ERDF were formally adopted by the Commission on 18 November 2014; the Operational Programmes for West Wales &amp; the Valleys ESF and East Wales ESF were formally adopted by the Commission on 4 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>iii) Scotland</p><p> </p><p>Scotland’s ERDF Operational Programme was formally adopted by the Commission on 11 December 2014 and the Scotland ESF Operational Programme was formally adopted on 12 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>iv) Northern Ireland</p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland ERDF and ESF Operational Programmes were formally adopted by the Commission on 12 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK-wide European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Operational Programme is under negotiation with the Commission and is expected to be formally adopted during the summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/02/2015 15:35:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

222387

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
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 discussions he has had with the European Commission about the capacity of local enterprise partnerships to deliver the European Structural and Investment Funds Operational Programmes for 2014-20 in England; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	224801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The European Structural and Investment Funds programmes 2014-20 are an important part of the Government’s long-term economic plan to boost local growth and create jobs across England. Officials from the Managing Authorities for the various European Structural and Investment Funds Programmes and from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are in close contact with the European Commission on an ongoing basis about the development and set up of the 2014-20 programmes in England. The partnership approach we are using for the programmes gives a strong and active advisory role to Local Enterprise Partnerships and to other local partners. At the same time, the Managing Authorities will shoulder the administrative burdens and financial risks involved in running the programmes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/02/2015 15:36:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

179107

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Ordnance Survey
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether it is his policy that the Ordnance Survey will remain the only official national mapping agency for the UK.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	224214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>As a Government-owned Company, Ordnance Survey will continue to publish and deliver a public task, and as such will continue to be the national mapping agency of Great Britain.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/02/2015 11:37:59 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

179257

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Crans Montana Forum: Western Sahara
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 declaration by the African Union that the Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla, occupied Western Sahara, should be cancelled.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Williams
uin	224247
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has received and declined an invitation to this forum and my Department does not plan to send a representative. We are aware of reports that the African Union has called for the forum to be cancelled but we do not intend to make any assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 224137 question first answered 23/02/2015 15:12:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1498 label Biography information for Mr Mark Williams

179279

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Rio Tinto Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether UK Export Finance has provided (a) loan guarantees and (b) low interest loans to Rio Tinto plc to support any of its investments or operations overseas in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	224280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>UK Export Finance has not provided loan guarantees or low interest loans to Rio Tinto plc in the last five years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 16:30:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

179282

registered interest
date	11/02/2015
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	Land Registry
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 potential (a) number of job losses at and (b) redundancy costs to local authorities as a result of the proposed takeover of responsibility for LLC1 searches by the Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	City of Durham
tabling member printed	Roberta Blackman-Woods
uin	224289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>At this stage it is not possible to quantify whether there will be any redundancies at local authorities or if so, how many there could be.</p><p> </p><p>Land Registry’s current research suggests approximately 850 local authority staff deal with Local Land Charges as all or part of their roles. Land Registry acknowledges the possibility that there may be redundancies among these staff, but they will typically have additional responsibilities alongside their Local Land Charges role.</p><p> </p><p>Further work is required to understand exactly how much time is spent by each individual officer on the Local Land Charges service. Land Registry will, of course, fulfil any TUPE obligations if applicable in any particular case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 17:13:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1501 label Biography information for Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods

178790

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Standard Individual Export Licences: Middle East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 9 February 2015 to Question 222938, regarding the standard individual export licence for equipment employing cryptography and software for equipment employing cryptography to the value of £7.7 billion approved by his Department for export to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, what the reasons were for the surrender of that licence by the exporter in August 2014; what role was played by his Department in the surrender of that licence; and what the reasons were for his Department's approval of that licence in the first quarter of 2013 when it was then surrendered unused by the exporter 18 months later.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Sir John Stanley
uin	224113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Exporters are not obliged to give reasons for surrendering licences. This was a purely commercial decision by the company and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills played no part in the decision to surrender the licence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As is the case with all applications, this application was assessed against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria in the usual way, taking into account the nature of the goods and the intended end-use. The application was for electronic components and circuit boards, which are specifically designed for building mobile phone networks for public use. The proposed export did not breach any of the Criteria and therefore the licence was granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:04:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley

178791

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Small Businesses: Billing
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 his Department has taken to enforce prompt payments to small and medium-sized enterprises by large companies.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward a suite of measures to tackle prompt payment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, currently before Parliament, we will introduce measures to improve transparency on payment practices and policies. Increased transparency, through a tough and transparent new reporting requirement on the UK’s largest companies, will help take significant steps to addressing the current imbalance in economic power between small and large contracting parties. Our consultation on draft secondary regulations to underpin these measures closed on 2 February. We will publish a summary of responses shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently seeking views on how to best give representative bodies wider powers to be able to challenge grossly unfair payment practices on behalf of members. The discussion paper is available online and is open until 9 March.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is also working to strengthen the impact of the Prompt Payment Code. We are currently considering proposals, including introducing a maximum payment term for Code signatories, more rigorous monitoring of signatory behaviour, and the enforcement of tougher sanctions on bad payers. We will announce our proposals in Spring.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These measures will drive forward a shift in payment culture that will make it unacceptable for large companies in positions of extreme bargaining imbalances to exploit smaller suppliers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 13:55:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

178793

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to page 10 of the Government's publication entitled UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what revisions have been (a) made or (b) planned to the UK's Supply Chain Code of Practice in the offshore oil and gas industry since July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>There have been no revisions nor are there planned revisions to the UK's Supply Chain Code of Practice for the offshore oil and gas industry since July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 12:58:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178794

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to page 11 of the UK Government's publication entitled, Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what funding has been allocated to date to companies in the offshore industry supply chain through the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative during the current period of low oil prices.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The time period in question is covered by current round of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI). AMSCI 2014 has yet to announce any successful bids as the assessment phase is still on-going. Decisions are made by an Independent Investment Board.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:27:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham