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516424

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement will be subject to ratification by both Houses of Parliament and the US Congress.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL8062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We expect the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will be a “mixed” agreement, covering areas of both EU and Member State competence, to which the US, EU and all EU Member States will be parties.</p><p> </p><p>In that case, it will be subject to agreement by each EU Member State, the EU Council and the European Parliament. As part of this process in the UK, before the Government can ratify the agreement, the complete draft text of the agreement will initially be laid before Parliament for scrutiny for at least 21 sitting days. During this time MPs and Lords may debate the treaty in either or both Houses and vote on the proposed ratification.</p><p> </p><p>In the US, both Houses of Congress would have to ratify legislation to implement the agreement, but not the agreement itself.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 10/05/2016 12:00:38 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

458661

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Student Unions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park on 23 February (HL6060), whether, in the light of clause 10 of the Trade Union Bill and the laws regarding pre-entry trade union membership, they will take appropriate action to ensure that student unions are bound by the same rules as other unions.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL6813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>Student unions are not trade unions, as specified by Section 1 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. Therefore, none of the reforms being provided by the Trade Union Bill will impact students’ unions.</p><p> </p><p>The Education Act 1994 already requires publicly-funded universities to take reasonable steps to ensure that their students’ union observes the right for students to opt out of membership.</p><p> </p><p>The Green Paper “Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice” sought public views on the role of students’ unions and what further steps could be taken to increase transparency and accountability to individual members. The Government plans to publish a White Paper in response in the spring.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 30/03/2016 14:49:06 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

451785

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	Student Unions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether student unions are in receipt of public funds, and whether all university students are obliged to join unions.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL6060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p>Individual students’ unions are principally funded through their university/college on either a per capita or a block grant basis, alongside funds raised through their commercial activities.</p><p>The Government does not provide funding to student unions directly, but student unions may receive some public funding indirectly through payments made by their establishment. .</p><p>The Education Act 1994 requires publicly-funded universities to take reasonable steps to ensure that their students’ union observes the right for students to opt out of membership. Students who exercise this right cannot be unfairly disadvantaged with regard to the services at the university. The university must draw up a code of practice setting out how these requirements will be put into effect.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 23/02/2016 14:39:09 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

426964

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	UK Trade with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the deficit in trade with the EU in 2014 in (1) goods, and (2) overall in goods and services; and how that deficit is financed.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK’s trade in goods deficit with the EU was £78.9bn in 2014. The overall trade in goods and services deficit with the EU was £61.7bn.</p><p>The UK’s total trade deficit is financed by a net inflow of investment in the financial account, for which data is not available on a geographical basis. The UK’s financial account surplus was £89.4bn in 2014.</p><p>Source: ONS Pink Book 2015</p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 17/11/2015 17:52:40 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

426965

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	UK Membership of EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of (1) the recent report by former UK ambassadors to the EU that, if the UK left the EU, access to free-trade deals would be lost with 51 states; (2) whether those states would, as a consequence, lose free access to the UK market; and (3) the overall effect on the UK's trading balance of those assessments.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is focused on delivering a successful renegotiation: it believes it can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis.</p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 23/11/2015 17:40:11 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

390000

registered interest
date	14/07/2015
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	Employment: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 3 July (HL933) concerning women's employment in the United Kingdom, whether they have informed the European Commission of the measures implemented by the United Kingdom to encourage women into work; and whether they will recommend that the European Commission should concentrate their efforts on the other 23 countries which have a lower percentage of women at work.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL1435
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government informs the European Commission of our employment policies, including female employment and measures to help working women and families, as part of the European Semester process and other engagement with Commission officials. In the area of employment, the Government’s view is that the European Semester should focus on those areas that are most directly relevant to employment outcomes, such as the efficiency and functioning of labour markets and should encourage all Member States to remove barriers to greater participation of women in the economy.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/07/2015 10:48:16 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

387736

registered interest
date	06/07/2015
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	Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 6 July (HL934) concerning the proposal by the European Parliament for restrictions on photographs or video footage of public buildings, whether they have the power of veto over such draft legislation; and if so, whether they plan to use their veto in this instance.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL1113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2015 answer text <p>On the 9<sup>th</sup> July, the EU Parliament considered a non-legislative own initiative report from the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on EU copyright reform, and voted against proposals to restrict individuals’ freedom to photograph or film buildings or statues located in public places.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/07/2015 12:23:08 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

386134

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
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	Employment: Females
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the Country-Specific Recommendations prepared by the European Commission, which found that there are too few women engaged in full-time work in the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes note of the Commission’s findings and recommendations. Latest Labour Market Statistics showed female employment in the UK is at its highest ever rate (68.6%), which makes it the 5<sup>th</sup> highest female employment rate in the EU.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is committed to helping working women and families. In the last Parliament legislation was enacted which enables eligible working parents to share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay where the mother ends her maternity leave and/or her maternity pay early so that she can opt into the new Shared Parental Leave and Pay system with the child’s father or her partner. All employees who have 26 weeks continuous service with their employer in the UK also now have the right to request flexible working. These measures enable eligible employees to better balance work with other commitments, including childcare.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK Government is also providing women and families with additional childcare support:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Currently funding 15 hours a week of free childcare for all 3 and 4 year olds, and for the 40% most disadvantaged 2 year olds.</p><p> </p><p>- Committing to giving working parents of 3 and 4 year olds 30 hours of free childcare a week, with implementation starting in some areas in September 2016.</p><p> </p><p>- Providing support for childcare costs of people on lower incomes, up to 70% of costs under the childcare element on working tax credits, which will rise to 85% from April 2016 under Universal Credit.</p><p> </p><p>- Introducing Tax Free Childcare which will provide up to 1.8 million families across the UK with up to £2,000 of childcare support per year, per child.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 13/07/2015 11:35:37 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

386135

registered interest
date	29/06/2015
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	Copyright
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the draft own-initiative report of proposal to the European Parliament that commercial use of photographs or video footage, or other images of works which are permanently located in physical public places, should always be subject to prior consent from the authors or any proxy acting for them.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2015 answer text <p>Section 62 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act (1988) permits the photographing and filming of certain artistic works and buildings permanently situated in a public place or in premises open to the public, without prior consent from the owners of copyright in those works. This exception to copyright protection has existed in UK law for over a hundred years, and represents an important freedom for photographers and film-makers, whether amateur or professional.</p><p> </p><p>The Government does not support any restriction to this exception, such as a requirement that prohibits commercial use without prior consent. The Government recognises the diversity of EU Member States’ laws in this area and strongly believes Member States should retain their current discretion in this area of law.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 06/07/2015 10:52:24 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon

166107

registered interest
date	25/11/2014
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	UK Trade with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total trade deficit or surplus with the European Union in goods and services between 2010 and 2013; and what is their estimate of any deficit in 2014 to date.
tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
uin	HL3165
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>UK’s trade deficit with the European Union was £28.5bn in 2010, £21.7bn in 2011, £39.5bn in 2012 and £56.2bn in 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, UK trade balance figures cover the period up to the second quarter of 2014. In the first half of 2014, UK’s trade deficit with the European Union was £25.5bn.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: ONS UK Economic Accounts 2014Q2</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Livingston of Parkhead question first answered 02/12/2014 12:28:47 answering member 4278 label Biography information for Lord Livingston of Parkhead
tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon