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479034

registered interest
date	16/03/2016
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	Research: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much public funding was spent on research and development in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is published annually and can be found on the Office for National Statistics website at the following location:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/researchanddevelopmentexpenditure</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 15:19:31 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470337

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Copyright: Film
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 cost of peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted material to the UK film industry in each year since May 2010; and if he will publish his Department's analysis upon which that estimate is based.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	30980
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made no assessments of the cost of peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted material to the UK film industry.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/03/2016 17:16:13 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470338

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Business: Government Assistance
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 businesses in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) local authority area and (c) Government Office region received funding under the (i) Enterprise Finance Guarantee, (ii) Working Capital and (iii) British Business Bank in each year during which those schemes have been in existence.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	30981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Since the launch on 14 January 2009 of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, 29,092 loans have been offered with a value of over £3 billion. With regard to Working Capital support, 47 companies have also received support through UK Export Finance’s Export Working Capital product, enabling over £250 million of export contracts to take place</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank was formally created in November 2014. Its programmes are currently supporting £2.5 billion of finance to over 44,000 smaller businesses, and participating in a further £3.6 billion of finance to small mid-cap businesses.</p><p> </p><p>Where it has been possible to provide the data in the format requested this has been included in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:30:36 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name Attachment to 30981 - Regional totals.docx title Regional Totals previous answer version 52036 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470340

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Export Credit Guarantees: Corruption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions the Export Credits Guarantee Department has reported allegations of bribery and corruption to (a) the Serious Fraud Office and (b) other agencies in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	30982
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>During this period no allegations of bribery and corruption have been disclosed to UK Export Finance (the operating name of the Export Credits Guarantee Department) that were not already in the public domain. Accordingly, the Department has not referred any allegations of bribery or corruption to the Serious Fraud Office, or other similar agencies, over that period.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:42:28 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 52037 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470341

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Foreign Investment in UK: EU Countries
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 inward investment projects originating from other EU member states have been established in each region and constituent part of the UK for each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	30983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown of all successful inward investment projects recorded from EU countries in each region and constituent part of the UK during the 2010/11 - 2014/15 period. These are based on estimates made by UK Trade and Investment.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Foreign Direct Investment Projects originating from the EU</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Wide</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; The Humber</p></td><td><p>157</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,612</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: UKTI internal database. Note: Based on UKTI’s estimates of successful inward investment projects originating from </em><em>27 EU member countries into</em><em> the UK </em><em>regions </em><em>at the time of announcement of investment projects during each of the reporting period between 2010/11 to 2014/15. </em></p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:39:49 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 52038 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470343

registered interest
date	14/03/2016
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	Small Businesses: Closures
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 he has made of the number of small and medium-sized businesses that have closed in each region of the UK since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>There is no data source that comprehensively measures business closures within the UK. The most relevant statistics available are the number of businesses de-registering for VAT and PAYE. Most of these businesses will have closed but some will still be trading, with turnover below the VAT threshold and without employees.</p><p> </p><p>ONS statistics show 1.5 million businesses have registered for VAT or PAYE in the UK between 2010 and 2014, while 1.2 million have deregistered. De-registrations for the English regions and UK countries between 2010 and 2014 are provided below.</p><p> </p><p>Number of VAT/PAYE de-registrations by English region and UK country between 2010 and 2014</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>English region or UK country</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of businesses de-registering for VAT/PAYE (2010 to 2014)</strong><sup>1</sup> <strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>33,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>127,305</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humber</p></td><td><p>87,225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>78,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>96,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>118,110</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>243,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>186,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>97,515</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>43,295</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>76,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>24,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>1,213,980</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. Source: ONS, Business Demography</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 17/03/2016 15:55:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

455186

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Prosecutions
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 successful prosecutions there have been against employers who have taken action against workers who have refused to work on Sundays under Section 45 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	28491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Section 45 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 gives certain shop workers and betting workers the right not to be subjected to detriment by their employers on the ground that the employee refused (or proposed to refuse) to do shop work, or betting work, on Sundays. This right can be enforced by bringing a complaint to the employment tribunal. There is no relevant criminal offence, so there have been no prosecutions.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/03/2016 15:28:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

455190

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research has been commissioned by his Department into the effects of the extension of Sunday opening hours in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	28540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In 2006 Indepen were commissioned by the DTI to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of extending Sunday Trading hours, a copy of the report can be found on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not commissioned any research since then into the effects of the extension of Sunday opening hours.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/03/2016 15:26:19 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

455191

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Families
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his proposals for the extension of Sunday trading hours has passed the family test.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	28528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s Family Test is not a pass or fail measure.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has conscientiously considered the impact on families and the evidence on this presented during the consultation. The Government will publish the Impact Assessment, including the Family Test, shortly.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 03/03/2016 17:16:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

452336

registered interest
date	11/02/2016
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	Antidumping Duties: EU Action
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending trade defence instruments to add a further exemption to the lesser duty rules in cases of social and environmental dumping.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	27111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government supports the use of the lesser duty rule in trade defence cases, as it allows for protection against unfair trade while at the same time avoiding the imposition of disproportionate costs on the wider economy. We do not support changes that would lessen its effectiveness as a trade defence instrument.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/02/2016 17:21:32 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan