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416307

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	Small Businesses: 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 assessment his Department has made of the effect of the increase of the minimum wage on small businesses which as a result of that increase will begin to operate above the VAT threshold.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	8838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the interaction between VAT thresholds and the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Businesses are only required to register for VAT when the total value of their taxable supplies of goods and services in the preceding 12 months exceeds the current VAT registration threshold, which was increased to £82,000 with effect from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 8839 8886 question first answered 14/09/2015 15:04:43 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

416308

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	Small Businesses: 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 estimate his Department has made of the number of small businesses that will begin to operate over the VAT threshold as a result of complying with the new minimum wage.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	8839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the interaction between VAT thresholds and the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Businesses are only required to register for VAT when the total value of their taxable supplies of goods and services in the preceding 12 months exceeds the current VAT registration threshold, which was increased to £82,000 with effect from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 8838 8886 question first answered 14/09/2015 15:04:43 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

416309

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	Small Businesses: 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 representations have been made to his Department on the effect of the increase in the minimum wage on small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	8840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>This Department has regular and frequent discussions with businesses of all sizes and across all sectors on a wide range of issues including the National Minimum Wage (NMW). In addition, the Low Pay Commission (LPC) will continue to play a key role in recommending the NMW and National Living Wage (NLW) rates going forward. In their report to Government the LPC consults widely and considers and reflects the views and representations from a wide range of businesses and sectors of the economy.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 8856 question first answered 14/09/2015 16:04:37 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

416310

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	Small Businesses: 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 assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of the increase in the minimum wage on small businesses operating under the VAT threshold.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	8886
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the interaction between VAT thresholds and the minimum wage.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Businesses are only required to register for VAT when the total value of their taxable supplies of goods and services in the preceding 12 months exceeds the current VAT registration threshold, which was increased to £82,000 with effect from 1 April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 8838 8839 question first answered 14/09/2015 15:04:43 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

416312

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: Small Businesses
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 have been made to his Department on the effect of the increase in minimum wage on small businesses.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	8856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>This Department has regular and frequent discussions with businesses of all sizes and across all sectors on a wide range of issues including the National Minimum Wage (NMW). In addition, the Low Pay Commission (LPC) will continue to play a key role in recommending the NMW and National Living Wage (NLW) rates going forward. In their report to Government the LPC consults widely and considers and reflects the views and representations from a wide range of businesses and sectors of the economy.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 8840 question first answered 14/09/2015 16:04:37 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

224798

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	Appeals
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to respond to the consultation, Regulatory and competition appeals: options for reform, which closed on 11 September 2013.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	226141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government is still considering some of the complex issues raised in the consultation before fully considering the way forward.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Steps have been taken to address one of the issues raised as part of the consultation. The Government has made provisions in the Consumer Rights Bill to allow for a widened pool of judges to sit as Chairs of the Competition Appeals Tribunal. This reform removes the time limit that judges can remain as Chairs and allows both Scottish judges and judges from the Queen’s Bench to be nominated as Chairs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 06/03/2015 12:41:12 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

164307

registered interest
date	24/11/2014
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	NHS: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on the NHS of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	215642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no threat to the UK’s National Health Service from TTIP. This was confirmed again by the European Commission’s chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero at a meeting organised to the All Party Parliamentary Group on TTIP this week.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The chief negotiator outlined that EU public services are automatically excluded from all EU trade in service market liberalisation agreements. Publicly funded health services are specifically excluded. Member states decide how to deliver their public services and can change the delivery model at any time. TTIP will not change the fact that it is up to UK Government alone to decide how UK public services, including the NHS, are run.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/11/2014 17:24:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

143353

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
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	EU Grants and Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance his Department offers to recipients of EU structural funds.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	213847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is responsible for EU structural funds policy and regulations. The United Kingdom’s Managing Authorities have responsibility for issuing guidance to recipients of the funds.</p><p> </p><p>In England, the Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Department for Work and Pensions is the Managing Authority for the European Social Fund (ESF).</p><p> </p><p>In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the Devolved Administrations are responsible for the management of the ERDF and ESF programmes.</p><p> </p><p>All the Managing Authorities have websites which give guidance to potential applicants for funding, as well as reports and publicity about their programmes.</p><p> </p><p>The links to the structural funds websites are as follows:-</p><p> </p><p><strong>England</strong></p><p> </p><p>Department for Communities and local Government:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/erdf-national-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/erdf-national-guidance</a></p><p> </p><p>Department for Work and Pensions:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/european-social-fund-2007-to-2013#guidance-and-regulations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/european-social-fund-2007-to-2013#guidance-and-regulations</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Northern Ireland</strong></p><p> </p><p>Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (ERDF):</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.eucompni.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.eucompni.gov.uk/</a></p><p> </p><p>Department of Education and Learning (ESF):</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.delni.gov.uk/esf" target="_blank">http://www.delni.gov.uk/esf</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p><p> </p><p>Scottish Government:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/support/17404" target="_blank">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Business-Industry/support/17404</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Wales</strong></p><p> </p><p>Welsh European Funding Office:</p><p><a href="http://wefo.wales.gov.uk/publications/guidance/?lang=en" target="_blank">http://wefo.wales.gov.uk/publications/guidance/?lang=en</a></p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 17/11/2014 11:18:00 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

101025

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Goldcrest Finance and Hertford Solutions
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 about (a) Gold Crest Finance and (b) Hertford Solutions LLP.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	211997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has received no representations about (a) Gold Crest Finance and (b) Hertford Solutions LLP.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/10/2014 15:29:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb

100844

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Pay
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 cost of paying a one-off payment to the staff of his Department in lieu of their entitlement to annual increments was.
tabling member constituency	Aberconwy
tabling member printed	Guto Bebb
uin	211898
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The cost of paying a one-off payment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills staff in lieu of their entitlement to annual increments was £3.2m. This cost is offset against a reduction in overall pay bill costs over the longer term.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The non-consolidated payments were staggered by grade in line with contractual step values.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>AA</p></td><td><p>£1008</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>AO</p></td><td><p>£1168</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>EO</p></td><td><p>£1360</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HEO</p></td><td><p>£1656</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SEO</p></td><td><p>£1880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G7</p></td><td><p>£2528</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>G6</p></td><td><p>£3060</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 03/11/2014 12:46:36 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3910 label Biography information for Guto Bebb