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509961

registered interest
date	11/04/2016
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	Learning and Skills Council for England: Bristol
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 people were employed in the Skills Funding Agency Bristol office in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	33269
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2016 answer text <p><strong>The figures for the number of people employed in the Skills Funding Agency Bristol office in each year since 2010 are:</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Headcount</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>60</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>37</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>38</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>38</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 18/04/2016 15:52:05 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 55224 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

457833

registered interest
date	01/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprenticeships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of recent trends in the number of people under 19 completing apprenticeship programmes.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	903918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2016 answer text <p>In England, 71,100 apprenticeships were achieved by under 19 year olds in the 2014 to 2015 academic year. This is 5,700 more than in the 2013 to 2014 academic year and 10,300 more than in the 2012 to 2013 academic year.</p><p>We supported over 600,000 apprenticeships starts for 16-18 year olds during the previous parliament.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 07/03/2016 18:24:39 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

438560

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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	Apprentices: Taxation
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 his Department has made of the value of the contract of tender for the employers' digital apprenticeship account; and when he plans to put that contract out to tender.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	20179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department has completed an assessment of the cost to implement the Digital Apprenticeship Service. In line with Cabinet Office best practice, we do not intend to procure the full scope of the Digital Apprenticeship Service. We supplement in-house expertise with services from a range of suppliers and will procure any further services through government frameworks in phases over the next 12 months.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 22/12/2015 22:03:14 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

438561

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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	Apprentices: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much was spent by the Government on apprenticeships in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	20180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Combined BIS/DfE spend by the Government on apprenticeships in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13 is shown in the table.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td>£K</td><td>FY2010-11</td><td>FY2011-12</td><td>FY2012-13</td></tr><tr><td>TOTAL</td><td>1,195,750</td><td>1,383,568</td><td>1,424,097</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p> </p><p> </p><br /><p> </p><p> </p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 22/12/2015 21:57:49 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

438570

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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	Institute for Apprenticeships: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which trades unions will be represented in the proposed Institute for Apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	20275
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>The independent Chair and Board members of the Institute for Apprenticeships will be appointed in accordance with the public appointments process.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 22/12/2015 21:41:03 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

417191

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Pregnancy: Discrimination
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 potential tribunal claims for pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal were notified to Acas under the early conciliation scheme in 2014-15; and how many of those claims (i) were settled by conciliation by Acas, (ii) progressed to a tribunal claim and (iii) were not settled by conciliation by Acas but did not progress to a tribunal case.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	9119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">This information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The total number of potential tribunal claims for pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal notified to Acas under the early conciliation scheme by individuals in 2014-15 was 1,851. Of these:</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 308 were settled by Acas at early conciliation stage and recorded on a COT3 settlement document;</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 545 progressed to a tribunal claim being taken, 264 of which were subsequently settled on an Acas COT3 following further conciliation;</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 998 were not settled through Acas, but did not progress to a tribunal case.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">An additional 18 notifications were made by employers. Seventeen of these were settled by Acas and the other was neither settled nor progressed to a tribunal.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government does not have data on the number of private settlements which settled claims before reaching a tribunal. The independently commissioned survey of early conciliation (a sample across all jurisdictions) found that 61 per cent of claimants (and their representatives) who did not settle but decided not to submit a tribunal claim reported that Acas was a factor in their decision.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Please note: (i) The jurisdictional provided to Acas is only indicative based on the information given by the prospective claimant; (ii) Counted individually there were a total of 1,882 notifications which means that a small number of claimants notified against more than one respondent.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/09/2015 16:40:49 question first ministerially corrected 14/09/2015 09:48:13 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 20420 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416825

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Minimum Wage: Underpayments
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 employers have been issued with a Notice of Underpayment of the national minimum wage by HM Revenue and Customs in cases where the investigation began on or after 1 October 2013; how many of those employers have successfully appealed against being named and shamed; and how many such employers have been named and shamed to date.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has named 285 employers to date, and there have been 16 successful appeals. HMRC has issued 791 Notices of Underpayment (NoU) since 1 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The criteria on which appeals against naming are considered are that it would not be in the public interest, it would be a national security issue, or that the employer or their family would suffer personal harm.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Not all employers who are issued an NoU since 1 October 2013 will be named. Employers must have owed arrears of over £100. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) also only names employers who have paid back all of the arrears owed – if, following the issue of an NoU, the employer has yet to complete a schedule of payment of arrears to their workers, has challenged the NoU, or is being taken to court to recover arrears that remain unpaid, their details will not be passed to BIS for naming.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/09/2015 14:57:49 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416826

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Minimum Wage
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 employers have taken advantage of the national minimum wage campaign announced on 30 July to self-report their non-compliance with the national minimum wage; how many workers have been identified as having been underpaid by these employers; and what the total sum is of underpayments involved.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The National Minimum Wage campaign launched on 29 July 2015. Information on the number of employers, workers covered and total arrears identified through the campaign will be made available when details for each voluntary disclosure have been finalised.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/09/2015 14:45:25 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416827

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the level of expenditure was on enforcement of the national minimum wage by HM Revenue and Customs in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; and what the final budget is for such expenditure in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	8858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s budget for HMRC’s enforcement of the National Minimum Wage has been:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(a) 2013-14 – £8.3m</p><p> </p><p>(b) 2014-15 – £9.2m</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The budget for 2015-16 was raised to £12.2m, and following an additional £1m announced in the Summer Budget, is now £13.2m.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/09/2015 14:47:00 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens