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524061

registered interest
date	08/06/2016
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	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent progress has been made on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	40086
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The thirteenth round of negotiations for the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) took place between 20 and 24 April in New York. The next negotiating round is due to take place in July. We are making progress and our ambition remains to reach a political agreement during the Obama presidency.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is working for an ambitious agreement that removes remaining tariffs between the EU and US, cuts the regulatory and bureaucratic barriers faced by our exporters without lowering our standards, and opens up opportunities for our businesses to compete for public procurement. We want a deal that is good for businesses of all sizes and for consumers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to the potential £10 billion annual benefit to the UK, TTIP provides an opportunity for the EU and US to shape the rules and standards for the global business environment.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/06/2016 10:09:08 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

520627

registered interest
date	23/05/2016
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	Universities: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of students from low-income households attended Russell Group universities in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	37905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2016 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes information on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Provider-level measures on the share of their students who have come from disadvantaged backgrounds are available as part of the <em>UK Performance Indicators;</em> these include the proportion of young full-time first degree entrants who are from low participation neighbourhoods, otherwise known as POLAR3 quintile 1 wards. POLAR3 is an indicator of disadvantage in the absence of income information. The data is provided in the table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Percentage of UK-domiciled young (1) full-time first degree entrants from POLAR3 quintile 1 wards</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>English Higher Education Institutions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Academic Years 2012/13 to 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>All Russell Group HEIs in England (2)</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>6.0%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>6.4%</p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: HESA Performance Indicators https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Notes:<br> (1) Young students are those younger than 21 at 30 September in the academic year in which they commenced their studies<br> (2) The Russell Group HEIs included are all those that were part of the Russell Group on April 13th 2016</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced in January 2016 that the Government intends to legislate to require individual universities to publish statistical information on admissions by gender, ethnicity and social background of students in order to make each institution’s record on admissions more transparent.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/06/2016 10:31:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

513573

registered interest
date	18/04/2016
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	Living Wage: Southampton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of the workforce in Southampton is in receipt of the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	34512
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government published its Impact Assessment of the National Living Wage on 7 December 2015.</p><p>2.9 million workers are expected to directly benefit from the National Living Wage by 2020, 8% of which are located in the South East of England. The Department has made no detailed assessment of the benefits of the National Living Wage at local authority level.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/04/2016 15:47:51 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

512423

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
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	Living Wage: Southampton
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 how many people in Southampton will benefit from the introduction of the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	33926
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government published its Impact Assessment with a full assessment of the National Living Wage policy on 7 December 2015.</p><p>300,000 workers in the South East will directly benefit from the National Living Wage by 2020. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has made no detailed assessment of the benefits of the National Living Wage at local authority level.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/04/2016 15:01:12 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

461215

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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	Retail Trade: Southampton
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 estimate the proportion of the working population in Southampton which was working in small retail outlets over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30844
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Official statistics are not sufficiently detailed to answer this question directly. However a rough estimate may be possible by combining sources.</p><p>The ONS Business Registers and Employment Survey shows that the retail sector accounted for 10 – 11% of employment in Southampton in each year between 2012 and 2014.</p><p>Furthermore BIS Business Population Estimates suggest that across the UK as a whole small firms (those below 50 employees) account for around 29% of employment in the retail sector.</p><p>Applying this assumption we could estimate that small retailers accounted for around 3% of employment in Southampton in 2012-2014.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 14:12:16 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

461217

registered interest
date	11/03/2016
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	Sunday Trading
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 estimate the proportion of weekend retail transactions which have been conducted on a Sunday over the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2016 answer text <p>On 9 March the Government published an impact assessment on Sunday trading which is available in the libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 17/03/2016 16:25:12 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458871

registered interest
date	09/03/2016
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	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, what estimate he has made of the cost to (a) private and (b) public sector organisations of implementing the National Living Wage in each of the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s Impact Assessment for the introduction of the National Living Wage estimates that the cost of increasing pay to the £7.20 rate on private sector and public sector employers will be approximately £800m and £36m respectively in 2016/17. The Government has not produced an estimate for each of the next three years.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 15:33:47 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458400

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	Sunday Trading: Small Businesses
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 effect Sunday trading will have on small enterprises.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>In view of the will of the House, we are no longer proposing to give local authorities the ability to extend the Sunday trading hours of large shops.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/03/2016 15:29:21 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458401

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	Students: Disadvantaged
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 ensure that students from low income households are encouraged to study (a) medicine, (b) law and (c) banking.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>We are taking significant steps to widen participation in higher education and ensure greater focus by institutions on employability.</p><p>From the 2015/16 academic year, we have removed the cap on student numbers, enabling more people than ever before to benefit from higher education our recent Green Paper <em>Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, CM 9141 </em>sets out additional steps the Government plans to take to increase the proportion of students from disadvantaged background entering higher education. In particular, the new Teaching Excellence Framework will encourage a stronger focus on employability in higher education institutions.</p><p>Since 2010 we have established a stronger framework with increased responsibility placed on higher education institutions to widen participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Director of Fair Access has agreed 183 Access Agreements for 2016/17 containing an estimated £745m to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds – up from £404m in 2009/10. In our recent guidance to the Director of Fair Access, published on February 11<sup>th </sup>2016, we said that we wanted the Director to encourage institutions to undertake work to improve access to the professions for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Director has reflected this steer in his own guidance to institutions about their access agreements for 2017/18.</p><p>In the field of medicine, the Medical Schools Council initiated the “Selecting for Excellence” project, supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to look at widening participation issues. A report was launched in December 2014 which set out a range of recommendations for the sector to take forward aimed at supporting access to medical schools.</p><p>The Key Information Set provides comparable course level information (including information on employment outcomes and student satisfaction ratings) and so helps young people choose the right course for them. As a result of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, information on the labour market outcomes of graduates will be further improved when HMRC employment and earnings data are made available following development and testing.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/03/2016 17:19:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458416

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	Living Wage: Small Businesses
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 estimate the cost to small and medium-sized enterprises of implementing the national living wage.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s Impact Assessment for the introduction of the National Living Wage estimates the cost of the initial £7.20 rate will be just under £530 million in total for small, micro and medium sized businesses.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2016 15:28:17 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith