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818673

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date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Growth Hubs: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Industrial Strategy, published in November 2017, (a) what additional funding will be made available and (b) what the length of the funding settlement will be for Growth Hubs.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	121437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Through the Industrial Strategy White paper we have announced our intention to ensure all businesses in every region have access to a ‘Growth Hub’. We will build on this programme, providing continued funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) for Growth Hubs to enable them to carry on building their reach, developing peer to peer networks and signposting businesses to the best support available from the private and public sectors.</p><p>We will confirm the level and duration of funding to be awarded to LEPs for their Growth Hubs at the earliest possible opportunity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:00:15 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

818674

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Growth Hubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the time period is for the funding settlement for Growth Hubs which the Government committed itself to in its Industrial Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	121438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Through the Industrial Strategy White paper we have announced our intention to ensure all businesses in every region have access to a ‘Growth Hub’. We will build on this programme, providing continued funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) for Growth Hubs to enable them to carry on building their reach, developing peer to peer networks and signposting businesses to the best support available from the private and public sectors.</p><p>We will confirm the level and duration of funding to be awarded to LEPs for their Growth Hubs at the earliest possible opportunity.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:00:31 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

818682

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Minimum Wage: Arrears
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answers of 16 November 2016, 3 March 2017, 12 September 2017 and 18 December 2017 to Questions 52385, 65376, 7533 and 118376, on Minimum Wage: Arrears, if he will publish the (a) sector and (b) size of the 169 employers who paid additional arrears, not included in the sum of arrears for which they were named and shamed, under the self-correction mechanism introduced by HM Revenue and Customs in 2015.
tabling member constituency	East Dunbartonshire
tabling member printed	Jo Swinson
uin	121446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>A total of 169 employers were instructed to self-correct further arrears in naming rounds 10-13. The sectoral breakdown of those employers is presented in Table 1, below.</p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Employers named under the National Minimum Wage naming scheme (rounds 10-13) and instructed to self-correct by the Low Pay Commission by sector</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>LPC Sector</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Employers instructed to self-correct </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Childcare</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Employment Agencies</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hairdressing</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hospitality</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Retail</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Social Care</p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non low paying sectors</p></td><td><p>45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>169</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><ol><li>Sectors with less than 5 employers have been included in an ‘Other’ category to avoid disclosure of self-correction via the naming announcements. Sector definitions are contained within the Low Pay Commission’s autumn 2017 report (p231) -https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/661195/Low_Pay_Commission_2017_report.pdf</li></ol><p> </p><p>HM Revenue and Customs does not hold complete data on employer size, therefore a breakdown by size is not available.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:47:02 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson

818703

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Wind Power: Yorkshire and the Humber
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the Government plans to agree a sector deal on wind energy; and which organisations in Humberside his Department has had discussions with on such a deal in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The Offshore Wind Industry Council is working to develop an ambitious business-led offshore wind proposal for a sector deal.</p><p>The Department has not had specific discussions on a potential deal with organisations in Humberside. However, the Offshore Wind Industry Council has conducted an engagement exercise with the wider industry across the UK as part of their work in developing a Sector Deal proposal.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/01/2018 15:48:51 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

818704

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	British Business Bank: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much loan funding was provided by the British Business Bank by NUTS 1 region in each year since 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>The British Business Bank provides funds and guarantees to private sector partners, enabling them to finance a greater number of smaller businesses (either through debt or equity).</p><p> </p><p>Additionally the Bank delivers a number of regional funds including Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund and Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and anticipates the launch of Cornwall &amp; Isles of Scilly Fund in Spring 2018. These funds include a mixture of debt and equity funding.</p><p> </p><p>The following tables shows figures for debt programmes for each FY since 2013/14:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>BBB flow of debt funding by FY*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>72,386,366</p></td><td><p>140,250,914</p></td><td><p>308,530,985</p></td><td><p>183,988,271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>143,190,179</p></td><td><p>55,802,099</p></td><td><p>424,220,179</p></td><td><p>400,741,313</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>1,038,250,763</p></td><td><p>776,330,176</p></td><td><p>1,038,618,734</p></td><td><p>1,670,112,945</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>193,138,738</p></td><td><p>37,732,958</p></td><td><p>43,427,554</p></td><td><p>218,883,429</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>201,053,761</p></td><td><p>351,155,990</p></td><td><p>430,621,254</p></td><td><p>326,036,311</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>341,467,807</p></td><td><p>609,890,567</p></td><td><p>701,148,582</p></td><td><p>377,032,104</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>141,141,660</p></td><td><p>70,948,681</p></td><td><p>180,186,344</p></td><td><p>232,027,294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>146,797,170</p></td><td><p>229,676,477</p></td><td><p>243,970,679</p></td><td><p>347,596,847</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>450,408,230</p></td><td><p>189,189,923</p></td><td><p>561,138,552</p></td><td><p>319,446,648</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>CTD</p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Devolved Admins and Other</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>90,299,306</p></td><td><p>55,354,003</p></td><td><p>65,638,590</p></td><td><p>244,079,333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>25,764,981</p></td><td><p>40,634,299</p></td><td><p>227,020,046</p></td><td><p>83,795,193</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>8,057,260</p></td><td><p>11,916,650</p></td><td><p>14,704,296</p></td><td><p>15,588,272</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Not Available</p></td><td><p>1,559,500</p></td><td><p>3,155,090</p></td><td><p>180,514,809</p></td><td><p>36,264,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,853,515,720</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,572,037,827</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,419,740,604</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>4,455,591,970</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>* Includes all Investment programme figures for each FY, which will include equity funding.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>* Figures included from the following programmes: Enterprise Finance Guarantee, H2G, Investment Programme and ENABLE programmes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="5"><p>* The SUL programme is included on a separate tab as the Bank is unable to produce figures matching NUTS1 boundaries</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>STARTUP LOAN CO. flow of lending by FY*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>FY 2016/17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>3.99</p></td><td><p>3.24</p></td><td><p>3.65</p></td><td><p>5.00</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>4.09</p></td><td><p>4.17</p></td><td><p>3.86</p></td><td><p>6.28</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>24.36</p></td><td><p>16.13</p></td><td><p>15.10</p></td><td><p>20.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>3.27</p></td><td><p>2.85</p></td><td><p>3.33</p></td><td><p>4.89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>10.63</p></td><td><p>7.65</p></td><td><p>6.13</p></td><td><p>9.55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>6.20</p></td><td><p>6.06</p></td><td><p>5.59</p></td><td><p>8.45</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>4.05</p></td><td><p>6.21</p></td><td><p>6.03</p></td><td><p>8.24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>5.25</p></td><td><p>5.74</p></td><td><p>5.79</p></td><td><p>7.94</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>5.50</p></td><td><p>5.20</p></td><td><p>5.75</p></td><td><p>8.31</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>0.85</p></td><td><p>4.04</p></td><td><p>3.98</p></td><td><p>6.16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>1.29</p></td><td><p>4.05</p></td><td><p>3.87</p></td><td><p>4.77</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>0.35</p></td><td><p>1.19</p></td><td><p>1.05</p></td><td><p>1.48</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>69.84</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>66.53</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>64.11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>91.25</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>* the geographical boundaries used to report lending in this table differ slightly from the NUTS1 definition.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:54:24 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

818705

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	British Business Bank: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many full time equivelent staff are employed by the British Business Bank in each NUTS 1 region.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>As at January 2018, the British Business Bank has 229 FTE employees in the Yorkshire and Humber, and London NUTS1 regions – 80 in Yorkshire and Humber; and 149 in London. This includes figures for SULCo, who merged with the Business Bank on 1st April 2017.</p><p> </p><p>As noted in the Industrial Strategy White Paper, British Business Bank are rolling out a network of regional managers by autumn 2018 to ensure businesses across the UK know how to access sources of investment. The network will cover England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with managers responding to a region’s particular needs and acting as convenors to improve collaboration, sharing of expertise and the creation of networks of private and public partners.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:48:37 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

818708

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Independent Industrial Strategy Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where the independent Industrial Strategy Council will be based when it is created in 2018.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	121472
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>We expect the Council’s membership to be multidisciplinary and include leading business men and women, investors, economists and academics from across the country. Our aim is for it to start work in spring 2018 and envisage that it will meet four times a year in a convenient location for all members.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/01/2018 14:17:25 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

818741

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which fruitless payments in excess of £30,000 her Department has made by (a) recipient of each such payment, (b) purpose of each such payment, (c) value of each such payment and (d) reason that payment was classified as fruitless in the 2017-18 financial year to date.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh East
tabling member printed	Tommy Sheppard
uin	121505
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Disclosure of any fruitless payments made in 2017-18 will be made in accordance with the requirements set out in Managing Public Money and published in the Department’s 2017/18 Annual Report and Accounts, planned for July 2018. The Department waits until its Annual Accounts to publish this information so that the National Audit Office can verify to the House that any disclosures made meet audit standards.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 14:59:29 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4453 label Biography information for Tommy Sheppard

818748

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Manufacturing Industries: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will provide incentives to (a) businesses and (b) the automotive industry to locate manufacturing facilities in the Easington constituency.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	121512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Government support for small and medium sized enterprises, including suppliers to Nissan, is provided through a range of measures and funding competitions which make the UK one of the best locations to locate and grow an automotive business. This includes the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative, with projects running through to 2019, and the £1bn Advanced Propulsion Centre, which promotes collaborative R&amp;D between suppliers and vehicle makers to develop products to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.</p><p>Furthermore, and as part of a programme of long term investment in the North East, the North East LEP Growth Deal, announced on 23 January 2017, was awarded £49.7m. Through the North East LEP Growth Deal we are supporting jobs growth and economic development with £379.6m of Local Growth Fund. This includes £42m of funding for the international Advanced Manufacturing Park, which will provide a world class environment for high tech advanced industries and advanced manufacturing businesses, including the automotive sector. Since its launch in 2016, the North East Growth Hub has engaged with over 7300 businesses, delivered 117 intensive assists and helped 728 individuals to start a business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/01/2018 15:14:13 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

818805

registered interest
date	08/01/2018
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Post Offices: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the average income received from the Post Office is for postmasters who host a post office branch.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
uin	121569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Remuneration arrangements with its postmasters is the responsibility of Post Office Limited.</p> answering member constituency Burton answering member printed Andrew Griffiths question first answered 11/01/2018 15:45:00 answering member 3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths
tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss