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523166

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Apprentices: Disability
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 is taking to improve the apprenticeship completion rate of disabled young people.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	39529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>Ensuring that apprentices have transferable skills and can progress their career will all help encourage people to complete their apprenticeship.</p><p> </p><p>We encourage the use of a range of available reasonable adjustments so during their learning and at assessment, apprentices with disabilities can demonstrate what they know and can do. Reasonable adjustments include access arrangements such as extra time, use of speech recognition technology, a reader, a sign language interpreter, modified papers (braille, enlarged text).</p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">A Taskforce, led by my hon Friend the Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard), has been asked to look at issues around apprenticeships for people with learning difficulties. The Taskforce is currently considering its recommendations.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our far-reaching reforms will further improve the quality of apprenticeships and ensure delivery of the high quality relevant training expected by both employers and apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/06/2016 16:58:44 question first ministerially corrected 14/06/2016 10:58:11 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 2890 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

521066

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
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	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, with reference to the Answer of 10 May 2016 to Question 36447, how much of the £10.3 million of minimum wage arrears recovered in 2015-16 was recovered from the 145 employers who were not issued with a Notice of Underpayment and who did not have to pay a penalty.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	38139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">60 employers responded to the National Minimum Wage campaign announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015. Between them, these employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £786,038 owed to 4869 workers.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In 2015/16 819 employers were issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU), and of this number, 814 were issued with a penalty. The combined penalties issued to these employers totalled £1,780,367.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">5 employers were issued with an NoU but no penalty because they had either gone into liquidation or had otherwise ceased trading, or because an Employment Tribunal had issued a judgment that no financial penalty should be imposed. Collectively these employers owed £57,603 to 30 workers. </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">A further 145 employers found to have underpaid their workers were not issued with a NoU or a penalty. Collectively these employers owed £2,065,874 to 14,055 workers.</ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 01/06/2016 10:27:14 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2016 16:12:22 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 1387 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

521067

registered interest
date	24/05/2016
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	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, with reference to the Answer of 14 September 2015 to Question 8859, how many employers took advantage of the National Minimum Wage campaign announced on 30 July 2015 to self-report their non-compliance with the National Minimum Wage; how many workers were identified as having been underpaid by those employers; and what the total sum was of arrears recovered for those workers.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	38140
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p><ins class="ministerial">In total</ins> 60 employers responded to the National Minimum Wage campaign announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015. <del class="ministerial">Between them, these employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £786,038 owed to 4869 workers.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">56 employers voluntarily disclosed arrears of £742,587 owed to 4875 workers. A further 4 employers voluntarily also disclosed arrears of £43,451 owed to 36 workers, but since these latter cases were closed after 1 April 2016, these arrears are not included in 2015/16 year end totals. </ins></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 01/06/2016 10:27:52 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2016 16:12:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James previous answer version 1385 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

475576

registered interest
date	15/03/2016
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	Apprentices: Qualifications
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 12 January 2016 to Question 20728, when his Department plans to publish the 2013-14 report on the prior qualification levels of apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	31251
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">A submission on this report is due to be sent up to Ministers shortly requesting approval for publication. The findings are broadly in line with last year’s study.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">This report is being finalised and will be published in due course.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 21/03/2016 16:17:28 question first ministerially corrected 08/04/2016 09:52:15 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 52482 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

453584

registered interest
date	22/02/2016
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	Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to implementing the EU Waste Electrical Equipment Directive (2012/19/EU) in relation to internet search engines.
tabling member printed	Lord Wills
uin	HL6286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No consideration has been given as internet search engines are not within the defined scope of the Waste Electrical &amp; Electronic Equipment Directive. The scope of the WEEE Directive is restricted to equipment which is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly or equipment for the generation, transfer and measurement of such currents and fields.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">No consideration has been given to either computer software or internet search engines because they do not fall within the definition of electrical and electronic equipment specified in the WEEE Directive. Software is normally either downloaded to equipment or purchased on CDs. It is the equipment that is used to run the software that would fall in scope since that equipment is dependent on electric currents or electromagnetic fields in order to work properly. An internet search engine is a service, not a piece of equipment, and so is also outside the scope of the Directive.</ins></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/03/2016 16:58:53 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2016 11:38:31 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe previous answer version 49931 answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	260 label Biography information for Lord Wills

420933

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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	Students: Grants
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 students living or studying in areas where household income is below the national average of the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2015 that maintenance grants will be discontinued from 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	11570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>From 2016/17 all new eligible students living or studying in areas where household income is below the national average and who would otherwise have received a grant will <ins class="ministerial">qualify for an increased loan for living costs. The total living costs support available under the new student support arrangements for eligible students on the lowest incomes is increasing by 10.3% in 2016/17.</ins><del class="ministerial"> be eligible for a maintenance loan, that increases the total maintenance support available to them by 10.3%.</del></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 19/10/2015 13:06:45 question first ministerially corrected 20/04/2016 10:36:58 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 23986 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick