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437070

registered interest
date	10/12/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Mckinsey and Company
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 to the public purse was of the internal review commissioned by his Department from McKinsey.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	19649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The cost of the review conducted by McKinsey was disclosed on 9 November 2015 and can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-contract-with-mckinsey" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-contract-with-mckinsey</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 16:58:05 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

433422

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Labour Mobility
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 civil servants in his Department are in the redeployment pool.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	18333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not operate a redeployment pool.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/12/2015 16:33:08 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

428421

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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	Business, Innovation and Skills: 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 estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment to senior Civil Service posts in his Department in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	16474
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The estimated cost for using external agencies for recruitment to Senior Civil Service posts in 2014/15 was £155,000.</p><p> </p><p>Information for previous years is not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:26:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

426995

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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	Higher Education: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Cabinet Office on proposals in the Higher Education White Paper on removing HEFCE-funded providers from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	15555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The content of the Higher Education Green Paper ‘Fulfilling Our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’ was discussed across Government. Our overall aim is to see a level playing field between higher education providers and, where possible to reduce burdens and deregulate. The Green Paper also makes clear that there may be a case for an exception to this general approach if it is in the interests of students or the wider public. We recognise the importance of the Freedom of Information Act and welcome views on its application to the higher education sector as part of the consultation on the Green Paper.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/11/2015 12:04:17 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

424842

registered interest
date	29/10/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what average time his Department took to respond to Freedom of Information requests in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	14057
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the timeliness of responses to Freedom of Information requests are published by Government (Table 4 of annual reports). They are available here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>These statistics provide the number of requests which were answered within the 20 day deadline, the number of requests where additional time was required for the consideration of public interest, and the number of late responses.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 05/11/2015 15:22:52 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

423510

registered interest
date	23/10/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Labour Turnover
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 level of staff turnover was in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's digital team in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The turnover rate for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), including UKTI for each of the 12 months from September 2014 – August 2015, is set out in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Turnover rate</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>14.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>15.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>15.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>15.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>15.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>14.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mar-15</p></td><td><p>15.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15</p></td><td><p>15.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-15</p></td><td><p>15.1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-15</p></td><td><p>14.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-15</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-15</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>The digital capability within BIS is not limited to a single team and is not recorded separately.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 02/11/2015 15:49:58 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

423213

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Electronic Government
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 efficiency savings arising from his Department's digital strategies in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	13087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><br /> <br /><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) aims to build digital services that are simpler, clearer and faster to use. In 2013-14 and 2014-15 BIS took the lead in developing five exemplar “digital by default”projects. These focused on transforming key areas in which BIS engages with the public: student finance, Land Registry data, renewing patents, redundancy payments and apprenticeships. By the end of 2014-15 all five BIS digital exemplars were either live or in trial(“beta”) use.</p><br /><p>Each of these is starting to bring significant benefits. For example, each year there are around 400,000 transactions for renewals of patents. The new digital patent renewal service allows patent owners and agents to complete the renewal process online in just a few minutes whereas the older, paper based service took up to 6 days to process.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/10/2015 15:25:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

419833

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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	Overseas Companies Regulations 2009
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 10 September 2015 to Question 8192, how many public complaints were made about failures to comply with the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 in each year since they came in to force.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	10867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2015 answer text <p>Companies House received the following number of complaints about the possible failure to register the opening of a UK establishment of an overseas company, which is a breach of the Overseas Regulations 2009, for each year since 2010. Companies House will act upon the receipt of a public complaint about a possible failure to comply with the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 (&quot;the Regulations&quot;). It will carry out an initial investigation and then, if it considers that an offence may have been committed, it will refer the case to BIS solicitors to consider whether a prosecution is justified under the Code for Crown Prosecutors. The principal aim is to achieve compliance with the Regulations; therefore, prosecution action is considered a last resort.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of Complaints</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010 (from 1 October</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 (to date)</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/10/2015 15:15:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

391694

registered interest
date	21/07/2015
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	Overseas Companies Regulations 2009
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 Companies House is taking to enforce the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009; and how many prosecutions have been made under those Regulations to date.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	8192
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>Companies House will act upon the receipt of a public complaint about a possible failure to comply with the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 (&quot;the Regulations&quot;). It will carry out an initial investigation and then, if it considers that an offence may have been committed, it will refer the case to the Department’s solicitors to consider whether a prosecution is justified under the Code for Crown Prosecutors. The principal aim is to achieve compliance with the Regulations; therefore, prosecution action is considered a last resort.</p><p>The Department has made one prosecution under the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009. The offence related to the failure to register the opening of a UK establishment.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/09/2015 14:22:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

390206

registered interest
date	15/07/2015
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	Apprentices: Living Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he plans for the National Living Wage announced in his Summer Budget 2015 to apply to apprentices over the age of 25.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	7222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Currently, the Apprentice rate applies to apprentices over the age of 25 where they are in their first year of their apprenticeship. They then qualify for the age appropriate rate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We will be implementing the National Living Wage through amendments to the National Minimum Wage regulations, in time for April 2016. We will consider how the Living Wage applies to the Apprentice rate as part of this process.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 22/07/2015 13:18:11 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh