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485485

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date	23/03/2016
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	Employment: Mortality Rates
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 differences in mortality rates for (a) permanent and (b) temporary workers.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2016 answer text <p>My Department has not made an assessment of the differences in mortality rates for permanent and temporary workers.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 12/04/2016 16:20:38 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485487

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: 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 steps he takes to monitor the economic effect of projects his Department has funded.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32258
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has taken a number of steps to embed systematic monitoring of our policies and programmes, including economic effects. The Department’s vision for monitoring and evaluation is outlined in our Evaluation Strategy, found on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p>In particular:</p><p> </p><ol><li>For all new spending the Department ensures fit for purpose monitoring and evaluation plans are embedded before policy implementation.</li><li>The Department publishes an updated summary of the monitoring and evaluation coverage for each policy area on an annual basis. The BIS Evaluation Plan 2016 was published in January and is the second annual publication of BIS’s evaluation coverage, also found on the GOV.UK website.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/04/2016 16:33:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485496

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Employment Agencies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the number of private sector employment agencies in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>According to the Office for National Statistics the number of employment placement agencies and temporary agencies is given in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>22,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>19,440</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>18,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>17,865</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>17,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>18,195</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data on number of the employment agency businesses are not available on a consistent basis prior to 2010. This is due to changes in methodology and the industrial classification system.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/05/2016 15:49:34 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485501

registered interest
date	23/03/2016
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	Agency Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of agency workers in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>Table 1 shows numbers of agency workers for the last 10 years. The figures, obtained from a survey of UK Recruitment firms, represent a snapshot of the volume of workers undertaking a temporary assignment on a given day and are our best estimate of agency worker numbers.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Average Daily Volume of agency workers, 2005/06 – 2014/15</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>1,270,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>1,380,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>1,220,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>1,070,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>880,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1,050,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,110,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,130,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,160,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,200,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Recruitment Industry Trends Survey 2014/15, Recruitment &amp; Employment Confederation Rounded to nearest 1000.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/04/2016 16:19:06 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 54591 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan