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143348

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	Higher Education: Admissions
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 effect has been on public sector net debt of abolition of the cap on higher education student numbers announced in the Autumn Statement 2013.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	213836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>Details of estimates and costs are in the 2013 Autumn Statement document at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263942/35062_Autumn_Statement_2013.pdf</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 213239 213835 question first answered 18/12/2014 16:58:48 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

143349

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	Insolvency
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 costs to insolvency practitioners of holding a physical creditor meeting in an insolvency procedure.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	213841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The cost of holding a meeting varies according to the insolvency process and the nature of the meeting being held.</p><p> </p><p>Estimates of the cost of the initial meetings in various insolvency procedures are included in the Impact Assessment [“Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill: proposed changes to the law governing insolvency proceedings impact assessment”, BIS/14/935, 30 October 2014] and range from £144 in a bankruptcy to £420 for an administration.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Process</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cost of meeting/£</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Creditors’ voluntary liquidation</p></td><td><p>294</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Administration</p></td><td><p>420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Compulsory winding-up (official receiver)</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Company voluntary arrangement</p></td><td><p>420</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bankruptcy (official receiver)</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Individual voluntary arrangement</p></td><td><p>420</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/11/2014 14:32:04 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

143350

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	Insolvency
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 saving to the public purse made by removing the provision for insolvency practitioners to call a physical creditor meeting.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	213842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The savings to creditors identified in the first year from removal of the requirement to hold a meeting and abolition of final meetings in liquidations and bankruptcies where the official receiver is not the office holder, are estimated to be at least £9.2m (comprised of £2.9m for removal of requirement for meetings and £6.3m for abolition of final meetings).</p><p> </p><p>We have not sought to quantify the savings to the public purse, such as the specific benefit to HMRC as a creditor. We have however estimated that around 10% of creditors are not businesses, so approximately £0.9m of savings can be attributed to such creditors as Crown departments, employees and customers for deposits.</p><p> </p><p>The savings figures are based on 2013 costs.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/11/2014 14:34:37 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

143351

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	Insolvency
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 proportion of (a) secured and (b) unsecured creditors who attend creditor meetings during an insolvency procedure.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	213843
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>There is no central record of how many creditors attend meetings in person, but evidence indicates that attendance at meetings is very low and that many meetings are not attended at all.</p><p> </p><p>The 2013 report, “Review of Insolvency Practitioner Fees” by Professor Elaine Kempson, estimated that only 4% of creditors attend meetings in person and that fully secured creditors seldom attend in person.</p><p> </p><p>The report goes on to say that two firms had actually calculated the percentage of creditors attending meetings in person. A large firm had calculated that 1% of creditors do so, and a smaller firm had calculated the amount to be 3.5%.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 19/11/2014 14:33:03 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

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

142065

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Business: Regulation
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 new statutory regulations on business have been introduced since May 2010; and how many regulations on businesses have been repealed in that time.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	213792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>Since this Government came into office we have reduced the stock of existing regulation through the Red Tape Challenge programme and controlled the flow of regulation through the One-in, One-out and One-in, Two-out rules. Any Department wishing to introduce new regulations which impose a cost on business can only do so if they make a reduction in cost through the removal of regulations with equivalent costs from elsewhere. From January 2013 the Government increased its deregulatory ambition by introducing the One-In, Two-Out rule, under which Departments must find two pounds of saving for every pound of extra cost imposed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The achievements of these two programmes will be set out in the Ninth Statement of New Regulation, to be published in December 2014. At the time of publishing the Eighth Statement in July 2014, there had been 72 regulatory ‘INs’ and 152 deregulatory ‘OUTs’ since January 2011, as well as 126 measures with zero net cost to business. As a result, this Government has so far reduced the annual cost to business of domestic regulation by over £1.5 billion since January 2011.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/11/2014 15:15:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

142067

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Buildings
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 buildings owned by his Department have been sold in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	213769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS Core) have not sold any buildings between 2010 and 2014. BIS Core do not own any freehold property to sell.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 11/11/2014 15:21:57 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

142068

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
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 his statement of 7 April 2014, Official Report, column 1WS, on higher education (student support), what reports he has received on the potential effect of changes to the disabled students allowances that provide assistive technology.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr William Bain
uin	213782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ officials have met representatives of the British Assistive Technology Association (BATA) and other stakeholders to discuss the potential effect of changes to Disabled Students’ Allowances on the provision of assistive technology. The Written Ministerial Statement of 12 September 2014 confirms that we will continue funding for assistive technology.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 17/11/2014 12:23:49 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1610 label Biography information for Mr William Bain

142070

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Intellectual Property
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 intends to publish for consultation the draft Statutory Instruments for the implementation of section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	213747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government is currently considering the responses received to its recent consultation on transitional provisions for the repeal of section 52 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, which deals with the issue of when to implement section 74 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. The consultation closed on 27 October 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>No decision has as yet been taken on transitional provisions or the type of statutory instrument that will be used, or on whether and when a draft instrument will be published.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 18/11/2014 17:04:40 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

142071

registered interest
date	06/11/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
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 of changes to disabled students' allowances on supporting disabled individuals into work.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North East
tabling member printed	Mr William Bain
uin	213714
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The purpose of Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) is to support disabled students in their higher education studies. Disabled students will continue to receive support through DSAs but students should expect more help through their institution in discharging its statutory responsibility.</p><p> </p><p>The Interdepartmental Ministerial Group on Disability has been established to ensure disabled people are included in society and have opportunities to realise their aspirations, including a consideration of how disabled students can best be supported into work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/11/2014 15:59:56 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1610 label Biography information for Mr William Bain