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177664

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Banks
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 Competition and Markets Authority is conducting an investigation into allegations of cartel behaviour by banks in (a) foreign exchange markets and (b) other capital markets.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Dr Julian Huppert
uin	223331
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>I am unable to comment publicly on any activity the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) may or may not be conducting into allegations of cartel behaviour in this area, including any intelligence it may have received or reviewed in relation to any particular allegations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CMA has been setup up by the Government as the UK’s independent competition authority and has extensive powers to pursue cartel and criminal behaviour. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will also obtain concurrent competition powers in financial services on 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As examples of the extensive powers available to the CMA and the FCA, the FCA has publicly stated that it is currently conducting an investigation relating to trading on the foreign exchange market and in November last year issued record levels of fines on banks in relation to their activities in the foreign exchange market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 09/02/2015 12:00:21 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3931 label Biography information for Dr Julian Huppert

177759

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Shell: North Sea
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 effect on the domestic offshore skills base of Shell UK Ltd's decision to award Allseas Group SA the contract for decommissioning three of its Brent Field platforms on the UK Continental Shelf.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame M. Morris
uin	223359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The contract award will see around 1,000 skilled people involved in the Brent decommissioning Project offshore, including many engineers. Brent decommissioning is a huge undertaking which has already generated investment allowing construction of a new quay and upgrading of Able UK Ltd’s onshore facilities. The construction and dismantlement activity will also create 200 new jobs. It paves the way for a new generation of North Sea related work in the decades ahead. This contract and its associated experience in dealing with large scale decommissioning projects could also help establish a UK decommissioning supply chain capable of taking forward the increasing numbers of projects we see coming forward in the next few years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 17:07:21 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

177764

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the employment protections for staff in the offshore oil and gas sector in the event of an employer seeking to replace them with non-UK based workers on lower rates of pay.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	223458
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The protections for staff in the offshore oil and gas sector in this example depend on the exact nature of their employment and the location of their work. The employment status review, announced in October, will consider whether the framework underpinning employment rights in the UK is still fit for purpose. Amongst other things, it will consider the statutory employment rights and protections available to different groups in the UK and identify areas that Ministers may wish to look at further.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 09/02/2015 12:02:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

177417

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Publications: Visual Impairment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty to facilitate access to published works for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled before 30 March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Rhondda
tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
uin	223012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government supports the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled.</p><p>As indicated by its signature of the Marrakesh Treaty on 28 June 2013, the Government intends to ratify the Treaty and hopes to see its entry into force at the earliest opportunity. The Government is currently in preliminary discussions with other European countries regarding the extent to which common action is required to ensure a coherent ratification of the Treaty across Europe. Following these discussions, the Government intends to take the necessary steps towards rapid implementation of the Treaty.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 09/02/2015 12:01:14 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

177604

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Water Companies: Living 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 discussions his Department has had with water companies on payment of the living wage in that sector.
tabling member constituency	Penistone and Stocksbridge
tabling member printed	Angela Smith
uin	223140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>My Rt. hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has not had any discussions with water companies on payment of the Living Wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government supports employers that choose to pay the Living Wage when it is affordable and not at the expense of jobs. Decisions on what wages to set are for employers and workers to agree as long as employers pay at least the national minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This Government is committed to improving living standards, particularly for the low paid and the only way to achieve a sustainable increase in living standards is to focus on economic growth, employment and cutting taxes for the low paid. This is exactly what we are doing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 09/02/2015 15:56:19 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1564 label Biography information for Angela Smith

176968

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
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	Art Works: Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent action against the artist Luc Tuymans, what is the current law in the United Kingdom regarding the copying or reproduction by fine artists of work by other artists, including fine artists and photographers and other image-makers through media such as drawing, painting or the use of collage.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL4598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Current UK copyright law is found in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended). It protects the rights of creators, including fine artists and photographers, enabling them to stop people copying either the whole or any substantial part of their work, either directly or indirectly, without the permission of the artist or photographer. This may include, among other things, the reproduction of a photograph in a painting.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, UK law, in line with the European copyright framework, also provides a number of exceptions to copyright, where, in limited circumstances, some copying may be permitted without requiring permission and without infringing copyright. For example, one UK exception to copyright permits 'fair dealing' with a work for the purposes of caricature, parody or pastiche. European law is clear that the application of that exception in any particular case must strike a fair balance between the interests and rights of rights holder on the one hand and the freedom of expression of the user on the other, taking all the circumstances into account.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the recent case against the artist Luc Tuymans, the Belgian court ruled that it was not satisfied that the reproduction in that particular case satisfied the criteria for ‘parody.’ Parody is an autonomous concept in European copyright law.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 09/02/2015 12:19:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

177068

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
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: Glasgow
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 that benefit micro enterprises in Glasgow South West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Davidson
uin	222864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Small businesses are vital to our economy and our small business owners have driven this economic recovery. The Start-Up Loan Scheme has provided 18 loans, with a value of £44,515, to people starting a business in the Glasgow South West constituency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to making Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a business, and are doing this in a number of ways:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>£10 billion of financing will be unlocked for smaller business over the next 5 years by our British Business Bank;</li><li>Government grants of up to £3,000 for better internet connectivity are available to small businesses;</li><li>Growth Vouchers to help companies find and pay for professional strategic advice;</li><li>GREATbusiness.gov.uk brings together all Government advice, guidance and support in one place and businesses can speak to or webchat with a helpline adviser direct using the Business Support helpline;</li><li>£2,000 cut from the National Insurance bills of small firms through the Employment Allowance; and</li><li>Businesses with up to fifty employees and start-ups are exempted from new regulations.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 09:59:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 43142 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	611 label Biography information for Mr Ian Davidson

177075

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
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, for what reason the value of extant standard individual export licences to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories fell from £7.9 billion, as stated in his letter of 12 May 2014 to the hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling, to £93 million, as stated in his letter of 15 December 2014 to the same hon. Member.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Sir John Stanley
uin	222938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The difference is accounted for by one licence, to the value of £7.7 billion, which was surrendered unused by the exporter in August 2014 and therefore ceased to be extant.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 17:05:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley

176874

registered interest
date	30/01/2015
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: Blyth Valley
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 apprenticeships have been created under the Government Apprentice Scheme in Blyth Valley constituency in each month since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Blyth Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Ronnie Campbell
uin	222801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of apprenticeship starts in Blyth Valley constituency in each month for academic years 2009/10 to 2013/14 and for 2014/15 August to October (provisional).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeships Starts in Blyth Valley Parliamentary Constituency by Month (2009/10 to 2013/14 and 2014/15 Aug-Oct Provisional)</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15 Q1 (provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>150</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>110</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Individualised Learner Record</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10; n/a represents months where data are not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>2) Q1 2014/15 covers August 2014 to October 2014; 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 academic years cover August to July.</p><p> </p><p>3) Provisional data are subject to change and should not be compared with data from previous academic years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/02/2015 11:15:10 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	514 label Biography information for Mr Ronnie Campbell

176687

registered interest
date	29/01/2015
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	Citizens' Advice Bureaux
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received from the management, staff and volunteers of Citizens Advice Bureaux on the effectiveness of Citizens Advice.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	222639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Department has received a number of letters, mainly from MPs in response to issues raised by their constituents, but also from bureaux volunteers, staff and one trustee. Only on two occasions has that correspondence been about the effectiveness of the service in so far as that relates to a complaint about how an individual’s case was handled. The remaining correspondence has related to funding issues, both local authority funding, which provides core funding to bureaux, or centrally-government funded programmes such as the provision of debt advice and legal aid.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Set out in the table below is the total number of correspondence received to date:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. cases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subject</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Correspondence originator</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>12</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p>11 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1x CAB involvement in Big Society</p></td><td><p>5 x constituent</p><p>4 x bureaux manager</p><p>2 x bureaux trustee</p><p>1 x MP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x local funding/funding of debt advice/Legal Aid</p><p>1 x Consumer Landscape reforms and effect on bureaux</p></td><td><p>3 x constituent</p><p>1 x volunteer</p><p> </p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>9</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>7 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x local funding/funding of debt advice/Legal Aid</p><p>1 x complaint about bureaux service</p></td><td><p>2 x volunteer</p><p>7 x constituent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x funding CAB, Shelter &amp; Age Concern</p><p>1 x complaint about bureaux service</p></td><td><p>4 x constituent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x support for continued provision of free advice (supporting the “Advice for the Future” campaign)</p></td><td><p>2 x constituent</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 09/02/2015 09:20:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman