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381045

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Zero Hours Contracts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 11 June (HL Deb, col 886), how they plan to ensure that people on zero hours contracts are aware that they can no longer be bound by an exclusivity clause; whether clear notification of this change will be sent to all relevant employers and employment agencies; and whether this law will override any existing contract which until 26 May included both zero-hours and exclusivity terms.
tabling member printed	Baroness Gardner of Parkes
uin	HL493
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2015 answer text <p>Changes to employment law are publicised in the same way to ensure employers and individuals know how to access the information. This includes guidance on .GOV.UK, and via relevant organisations, including representative and advisory bodies such as Acas, who have mechanisms to ensure the information reaches the right people.</p><p> </p><p>The ban applies to all those with an existing exclusivity clause in their zero hours contract.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 26/06/2015 12:05:14 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3596 label Biography information for Baroness Gardner of Parkes

381126

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Arms Trade: Trade Fairs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, from which countries representatives have been invited by the Government to the Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition at the ExCeL Centre in September 2015.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The invitation process for attendance to Defence and Security Equipment International 2015 (DSEI 15) has not yet been completed. The UK Government intends to publish the full list of countries invited at the start of the exhibition, which will be available on the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 18/06/2015 16:35:52 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

381127

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Defence and Security Organisation
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 UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation priority markets are for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	2403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2015 answer text <p>The priority markets for 2015-16 have not been set yet.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 18/06/2015 16:36:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

381211

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 direct costs to the energy intensive industry resulting from the introduction of legislative proposals on a carbon price floor.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	2426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The costs of the Carbon Price Floor on business are largely indirect, passed through in bills by their electricity supplier. However, the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Prices and Bills report estimates that in 2014 the Carbon Price Floor increased the price per MWh of electricity for the average uncompensated energy intensive business by £4. The Government pays compensation to the most electricity intensive industries which reduces the price impact for the average compensated energy intensive business in 2014 to £2 per MWh.</p><p>My Department keeps the risk of carbon leakage under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 2440 2441 question first answered 22/06/2015 09:41:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

381213

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 last met with representatives of the energy intensive industry to discuss the disparity between (a) UK carbon prices under the carbon price floor and (b) such prices in the rest of Europe.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	2440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The costs of the Carbon Price Floor on business are largely indirect, passed through in bills by their electricity supplier. However, the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Prices and Bills report estimates that in 2014 the Carbon Price Floor increased the price per MWh of electricity for the average uncompensated energy intensive business by £4. The Government pays compensation to the most electricity intensive industries which reduces the price impact for the average compensated energy intensive business in 2014 to £2 per MWh.</p><p>My Department keeps the risk of carbon leakage under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 2426 2441 question first answered 22/06/2015 09:41:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

381216

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness
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 the carbon price floor on (a) carbon leakage rates, (b) the relocation of energy intensive industry overseas and (c) UK and EU carbon dioxide emissions.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	2441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p>The costs of the Carbon Price Floor on business are largely indirect, passed through in bills by their electricity supplier. However, the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Prices and Bills report estimates that in 2014 the Carbon Price Floor increased the price per MWh of electricity for the average uncompensated energy intensive business by £4. The Government pays compensation to the most electricity intensive industries which reduces the price impact for the average compensated energy intensive business in 2014 to £2 per MWh.</p><p>My Department keeps the risk of carbon leakage under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 2426 2440 question first answered 22/06/2015 09:41:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

381245

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Adult Education: Liverpool
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 15 June 2015 to Question 1656, if he will make an assessment of the effect of changes to the adult skills budget on learners in Liverpool.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	2529
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>As noted in the replies to Questions 1656 and 1849, the Skills Funding Agency allocates funding based on learner demand and the majority of this Department’s £450m savings in 2015-16 will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>FE savings will also be found by cutting low-value expenditure but one of the areas where the FE budget has the greatest impact, apprenticeships, is protected so apprentices in Liverpool, and elsewhere, will not be affected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Officials in my Department are working with the Skills Funding Agency to determine how other savings can best be achieved in line with ministers’ priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We understand that there are pressures across the sector and we have been working through the FE Commissioner to support any colleges that need to redevelop their business plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 2530 question first answered 23/06/2015 13:56:44 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

381246

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Adult Education: Liverpool
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 15 June 2015 to Question 1849, which funding bodies his Department is working with to determine how reductions to the adult skills budget will be made; and if he will instruct the funding bodies to look at the effect of changes on learners in Liverpool.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	2530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>As noted in the replies to Questions 1656 and 1849, the Skills Funding Agency allocates funding based on learner demand and the majority of this Department’s £450m savings in 2015-16 will be delivered through known underspends and releasing unallocated funding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>FE savings will also be found by cutting low-value expenditure but one of the areas where the FE budget has the greatest impact, apprenticeships, is protected so apprentices in Liverpool, and elsewhere, will not be affected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Officials in my Department are working with the Skills Funding Agency to determine how other savings can best be achieved in line with ministers’ priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We understand that there are pressures across the sector and we have been working through the FE Commissioner to support any colleges that need to redevelop their business plans.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 2529 question first answered 23/06/2015 13:56:44 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

381271

registered interest
date	15/06/2015
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	Export Control Organisation: Civil Proceedings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which exporters have taken legal action as a result of the Export Control Organisation's refusal to grant them an export licence since May 2010; when each licence was refused; what the intended country of destination was of each such licence; what type of licence was applied for; and what the outcome was of each such legal case.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	2573
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>No exporters have taken such legal action against the Export Control Organisation in this timeframe.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/06/2015 09:43:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn