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date	21/01/2016
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	Franchises
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 28 December 2015 to Question 19725, if, when considering complaints on breaches of the Trading Schemes Act 1996, his Department will take into account the contents of franchisees' contracts on the terms of trade and the relationship between the franchisee, master franchisor in the UK and overseas franchisor in order to determine (a) the number of master franchisors in the UK of an overseas based franchisor and (b) if the trading scheme was subject to the Trading Schemes Regulations, whether its contracts complied with those regulations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	23663
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further to the answer given on 28 December to question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-12-11/19725/" target="_blank">19725</a>, the Department, or any authority investigating, would take into account all the relevant circumstances and the applicability of relevant legislation, before deciding whether to pursue a case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/02/2016 17:37:51 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

437335

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
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	Pyramid Selling
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department acts as the enforcement authority for the criminal offences defined in Part XI of the Fair Trading Act 1973 and in consequent trading schemes regulations and exemptions; and if he will make statement.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	19725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2015 answer text <p>Breaches of the Trading Schemes legislation (i.e. the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the regulations made under it) would be referred to the lawyers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Criminal Enforcement to determine whether or not a criminal investigation should be undertaken. The matter may also be referred to the Insolvency Service, to investigate and ascertain whether the offending company should be wound up in the public interest. The 1973 Act does not confer an express enforcement duty on any particular body, however this Department would look to bring a case in appropriate circumstances. Otherwise, enforcement could fall to Trading Standards or possibly the Competition Markets Authority should widespread malpractice be suspected.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/12/2015 14:42:19 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

428748

registered interest
date	17/11/2015
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	Apprentices
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 apprenticeship starts there have been in each year since 1997.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	16673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of Apprenticeship starts in England from the 1997/98 academic year to 2014/15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship Starts, England, 1997/98 to 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Apprenticeship Starts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997/98</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>75,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998/99</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>118,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999/00</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>165,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000/01</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>177,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001/02</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>162,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>167,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>193,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>189,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>175,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>184,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>224,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>239,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>279,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>457,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>520,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>510,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>440,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>499,900</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1) Data source for 2002/03 onwards is the Individualised Learner Record. Data source from 1997/98 to 2001/02 was the Individualised Student Record, managed by the Further Education Funding Council. Therefore data prior to 2002/03 is not directly comparable to later years.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Data for 2002/03 onwards is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>3) Data prior to 2002/03 are rounded to the nearest thousand.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>4) Data from 2002/03 onwards are rounded to the nearest hundred.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 25/11/2015 11:54:42 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey