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76236

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	ICT
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 mobile telephones, BlackBerrys and laptops were lost by his Department in (a) 2013 and (b) 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	204462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The departmental security records for ICT equipment lost or stolen in 2013 and to date in 2014 are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Total number of:</p></td><td><p>2013 totals</p></td><td><p>2014 totals to date</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Laptops lost / stolen</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BlackBerrys lost / stolen</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Smartphones lost / stolen</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:30:10 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

76237

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations collect subscriptions through the employers' payroll service in their Department and its agencies.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	204494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>BIS collects subscriptions through our payroll service from the following organisations:</p><p>HMRC, C&amp;E Sports, Pension PARL, PCS Union, Prospect, HASSRA Lottery, Benhealthcare, SimplyHealth,</p><p>DSRA Lottery, Charities Aid Foundation, Birmingham Hos Saturday Fund, Welsh Hospitals, Charities Trust,</p><p>Cash For Health, Westfield Health, CS Benevolent, British Health Care Ass, Scottish Ben Fund,</p><p>CS Sports Council, Civil Service Club, Sun Life Assurance, National Friendly, HSA Individual,</p><p>Sov Health Care, Healthshield, Healthsure Group, First Division Association, Leeds Hospital Fund,</p><p>Hospital Saturday Fund, AVC EQLIFE DB, Minerva SSA ( DTI Sports), Merseyside Health, AVC Equitable Life,</p><p>Pension Standard Life, Pension TUC PRU, AVC Scottish Widows, Pension Scottish Widow,</p><p>UK CS Benefit Society, AVC StandLife, DESO Ret Officer Ass.</p><p>I have approached the Chief Executives of the Department's Executive Agencies (Insolvency Service, Companies House, National Measurement Office, Intellectual Property Office, UK Space Agency, Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Land Registry and the Skills Funding Agency) and they will respond to the Hon. Member directly.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 16:07:42 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson attachment 1 file name Executive Agency Letters for UIN 204494.pdf title Executive Agency Letters - UIN 204494
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

76239

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Apprentices
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 higher apprenticeships were delivered via the (a) Higher Education Funding Council for England and (b) Skills Funding Agency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
uin	204399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Employers offer apprenticeships, with training providers delivering the required training within an apprenticeship. Government funding for apprenticeships, including higher apprenticeships, is currently provided by the Skills Funding Agency to apprenticeship training providers.</p><p>Information on the number of Government funded higher apprenticeships is published in a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/07/2014 16:11:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey

76240

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Money Lenders
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 investigations of illegal money lenders have been carried out by illegal lending units in England, Scotland and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many such investigations have resulted in criminal convictions.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown of the number of investigations conducted and convictions obtained by the Illegal Money Lending Teams in Scotland and Wales in each of the last five years, and in England for the last three years.</p><p>The England Illegal Money Lending Team was created in April 2011. Equivalent information is not available relating to the regional teams which existed prior to this.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Investigations</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Convictions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>399</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Illegal Money Lending Teams conduct complex and sensitive investigations. The length of each investigation will be influenced by the circumstances of the specific case. In some instances convictions can only be delivered through months of proactive intelligence gathering and community engagement. Because of this, some cases span multiple years and so there is not necessarily a direct link between the numbers of investigations and the numbers of convictions in any one year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:27:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

76241

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Adrian Beecroft
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what dates (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department had meetings with Adrian Beecroft between May 2012 and June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
uin	204448
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Details of Ministers' meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p>Information for January – March 2014 will be published in due course.</p><p>Information on any meetings between officials and Adrian Beecroft is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:24:14 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

76242

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Vetting: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Scottish Government on the practice of blacklisting in public sector procurement contracts.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Cathy Jamieson
uin	204523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>BIS Ministers have not had any discussions with Scottish Ministers on the practice of blacklisting in public sector procurement contracts. However, my Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs at the time (Jenny Willott), did write to Ian Davidson, Chair of the Scottish Affairs Committee, earlier in the year commenting on their second interim report ‘Blacklisting in Employment: addressing the crimes of the past'.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:32:29 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4011 label Biography information for Cathy Jamieson

76316

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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, how many young people who had been in receipt of free school meals applied to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	204496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information for Oxbridge is not held centrally.</p><p>Figures published by UCAS in July 2013 show that, in 2010, the application rate of 18 year olds in state schools in England who had received free school meals at age 15 was 13.2%, compared to 32.2% for those who had not received them. In 2013, the rates were 14.8% and 32.9% respectively. The application rate measures the percentage of 18 year olds who apply to enter full-time undergraduate courses in the UK. UCAS is an organisation independent from Government.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 15/07/2014 11:32:57 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

76447

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Employment Tribunals Service
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 publish the names of people who have taken multiple cases against different employers to an employment tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Government has no plans to change legislation to bring in a register of employees that take their employer to a tribunal, or of private settlements.</p><p>Employment tribunals are independent judicial bodies and, in line with the principle of judicial independence, Government cannot comment on, or intervene in, the tribunal's handling of individual cases or any decisions made.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 15:49:50 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

76534

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Skilled 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 action his Department is taking to address the exploitation of low-skilled workers.
tabling member constituency	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
tabling member printed	Ms Diane Abbott
uin	204527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>In order to protect the rights of workers, this Department is taking a tougher approach on all employers that break minimum wage law. We have already made it simpler to name and shame employers that break the law in this area. The revised Naming and Shaming scheme came into effect on 1 October 2013. The new rules are part of Government efforts to toughen up enforcement of the National Minimum Wage and increase compliance.</p><p>The Government has already publicly named 30 employers. Between them they owe workers a total of over £50,000 in arrears and have been charged financial penalties totalling over £24,000. By naming and shaming employers it is hoped that bad publicity will be an additional deterrent to employers who would otherwise be tempted not to pay the National Minimum Wage.</p><p>The Government has also doubled the financial penalty percentage that employers pay for breaking minimum wage law from 50 per cent to 100 per cent of the unpaid wages owed to workers and quadrupled the maximum penalty from £5,000 to £20,000. The Government will now introduce primary legislation so that a maximum penalty of up to £20,000 can be applied on a per worker basis – significantly increasing the maximum penalty employers can face.</p><p>In addition, through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill the Government is bringing forward measures to ban exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts and through secondary legislation to ban employment agencies using an ‘overseas only' approach to filling posts. Both measures will further enhance the opportunities for workers, especially in low-skilled professions.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/07/2014 13:43:59 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	172 label Biography information for Ms Diane Abbott

65960

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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: Publications
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 is taking to promote the Open Access academic publishing movement in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	204123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to making publicly funded and published research freely and openly available. In the long term we believe the most effective form of Open Access (OA) will be Gold OA. I last commented on this subject in November 2013 in the Government's response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee report on OA and this answer updates on progress since that statement.</p><p>I was very pleased that in May 2014 the Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing, a major publisher of academic papers, introduced an ‘offsetting' arrangement that will allow institutions to publish more open access papers without incurring additional costs. I strongly encourage other publishers to follow the IoP Publishing's lead.</p><p>Further, the ‘Access to Research' initiative was launched in February 2014 through the support of the publishing community. It allows students, independent researchers and small businesses to access many of the world's best academic papers through their local libraries.</p><p>We intend to maintain this level of progress and I am pleased that Universities UK (UUK) have agreed to take on a co-ordinating role for the continued implementation of OA policy in the UK. This follows a recommendation in the Finch Group's report ‘<em>Review of progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the Finch Report</em>‘, UUK are in the process of setting up a group which will consist of key stakeholders similar to that of the Finch Group.</p><p>Additionally the Research Sector Transparency Board (RSTB) which I chair advises Government on how to increase access to research data. My intention is that the RSTB will also continue to play a role in OA and preservation of scientific data.</p><p>In relation to confidentiality clauses this Department continues to monitor the situation and is encouraged by recent developments in this area.</p><p>Finally, I wish to record my appreciation for the achievements of Ron Egginton, our lead official on OA who sadly and suddenly died on 8 June 2014. His expertise and commitment was instrumental in the progress that has been achieved in making the UK the leading major nation on OA.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204124 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:08:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin