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224633

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	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 assessment he has made of whether foreign corporations will be able to sue the Government for damages and loss of profit under the investor-state dispute mechanism of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what steps the Government plans to take to prevent such an occurrence.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has not yet been negotiated. The European Commission carried out a public consultation on these provisions last year and has published a report on the consultation responses. The UK, with other EU Member States and the Commission, will consider the report’s findings carefully to understand what is required of ISDS provisions to protect the right of governments to regulate in the public interest.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/03/2015 15:55:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

224635

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	Trade Missions: Nuclear Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support UK Trade and Investment has given to (a) the Nuclear Industry Association and (b) private nuclear companies to participate in trade missions it organised or supported in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226099
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The data below details the support given since the establishment of the UKTI Events and Missions Team in 2012; to gather information from further back would incur disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2012 UKTI has supported, 74 unique private nuclear companies on nine outward trade missions at a total cost of £63,500. The details are:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2012</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>April- nuclear decommissioning to Japan</p><p> </p><p>November- nuclear decommissioning and waste management to Korea</p><p> </p><p>November- nuclear decommissioning and waste management to Japan</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2013</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>October-general nuclear mission-Korea</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2014</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>January-mission to Korea Atomic Industrial Forum January-mission to UK-China Civil Nuclear July-mission to Nuclear Dialogue-Japan September-mission to Radiex-Japan</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2015</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>November-mission to Taiwan</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The NIA has participated in three events, Japan in April 2012; Korea in November 2012 and UK-China in January 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/03/2015 15:45:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

224636

registered interest
date	03/03/2015
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	Regional Growth Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support the Regional Growth Fund has provided for the Civil Nuclear Sharing in Growth programme in each year since 2010 Regional Growth Fund.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>The Civil Nuclear Sharing in Growth Programme has been allocated £27.3 million from the Regional Growth Fund.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/03/2015 15:48:09 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

178854

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Care Workers: Pay
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 introduce legislative proposals to ensure social care workers and home care providers are paid costs for travel to clients, training and on-call time in addition to being paid for the time spent with those for whom they provide care.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	224122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government already makes clear in legislation and guidance that travel time between assignments should be paid at least the appropriate National Minimum Wage (NMW) rate. Whether a worker paid by the hour is entitled to the minimum wage for periods such as the time spent travelling between home and their first assignment and between their last assignment and home depends on the terms of their contract and whether they are working during that time. We have updated our guidance on the Gov.UK to make it clear that time spent travelling between assignments and rest breaks must be paid at least the NMW.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In relation to training, the NMW rules state that, where a worker is paid according to the number of hours they work, the NMW must be paid for all time spent training.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Workers who are required to be available to work, either on standby or on call, should also receive at least the NMW rate for this time, although there are exceptions in some circumstances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We encourage any care sector worker who believes that they have been underpaid to make a complaint, using the free and confidential Pay &amp; Work Rights Helpline on 0800 917 2368. HM Revenue &amp; Customs investigate all complaints. In addition, they are currently undertaking proactive enforcement action into the six largest care providers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/02/2015 11:49:35 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

177349

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
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	Radioactive Waste
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 effectiveness and value for money of the Natural Environment Research Council's Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Management of Nuclear Wastes for Disposal Waste programme.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	223117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The research through the Decommissioning, Immobilisation and Management of Nuclear Wastes for Disposal Waste (DIAMOND) programme was funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and was completed in March 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The research consortium has subsequently been awarded a further research grant to address the broad area of nuclear waste and decommissioning. This new grant brings together key industry partners and leading academic researchers from 11 of the UKs top research intensive universities and builds upon and consolidates the work completed through the DIAMOND programme. As part of the process to award this new grant, the effectiveness and value-for-money of the DIAMOND programme would have been assessed by experts in the field based on the evidence provided by the applicants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The specific research outputs from the DIAMOND programme are publicly available on the Research Council Gateway to Research portal – <a href="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/E898DD38-1C74-41ED-B298-F9BF53FA6376" target="_blank">http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/E898DD38-1C74-41ED-B298-F9BF53FA6376</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 11/02/2015 15:41:35 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

177069

registered interest
date	02/02/2015
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: Procurement
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 bring forward legislative proposals to ban large firms requiring pay to stay agreements from companies seeking to remain or become their approved suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	222851
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department is aware that the practice of suppliers having to pay to join or remain on a supplier list can cause significant difficulties. As a result, the Government has already taken action to prohibit this practice in certain circumstances.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our recent consultation, which closed on 2 February, sought to understand the prevalence and impact of this practice in more detail. We will provide a summary of responses shortly. This consultation will strengthen the evidence we have on supplier lists, and will allow us to understand the necessary scope, and implications of possible further changes. This will ensure that any action is appropriately targeted and achieves real change on the ground.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 12:02:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

175213

registered interest
date	22/01/2015
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	Minimum 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 provisions exist to prevent agencies providing staff to companies deliberately wrongly designating them as apprentices in order to pay them less than the minimum wage; and what instances of such practices have been brought to his attention.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	221724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The recruitment sector is regulated by the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (the ‘Conduct Regulations’). The Conduct Regulations require employment businesses to agree a number of terms with the work-seeker, including whether the work-seeker will be employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship, or a contract for services, and the rate of pay that will apply.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate is not aware of any complaints about work-seekers being deliberately wrongly designated as apprentices.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 27/01/2015 16:39:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

172476

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
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	Fossil Fuels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what loans were made by UK Export Finance for fossil fuel energy exploration or fossil fuel power generation projects in 2014; what assessment was made of the carbon footprint of each such project prior to the loan being agreed; and whether sustainability or environmental impact assessments were made of those projects before the loans were granted.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	220122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>In 2014 UK Export Finance (UKEF) has provided two guarantees for export credit loans made by banks for the supply of remote operated vehicles (ROVs) (£14.1m) and a pipe-laying vessel (£61m) to Nigeria and Brazil respectively for general use and not related to a specific project but which may be used in connection with oil exploration and production.</p><p> </p><p>When UKEF is asked to support a project, it applies the OECD Recommendation on Common Approaches for Officially Supported Export Credits and Environmental and Social Due Diligence (the OECD Common Approaches) where this is required. It informs the way in which member Export Credit Agencies should address the environmental social and human rights (ESHR) impacts of projects at a defined location which they are asked to support. However, in the case of the ROVs and pipe-laying vessel, there is no specific project or fixed location in which they would be operated to make it possible to assess environmental impacts. Therefore, in line with the OECD Common Approaches, an impact assessment was not carried out.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/01/2015 11:52:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

168564

registered interest
date	08/12/2014
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	Defence and Security Organisation: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which posts staff of UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Organisation are on secondment from industry; from which company each such person was seconded; and what the start and end date of each such secondment is.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	217666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Post</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Company</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>End date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>International Cyber Director</p></td><td><p>BAES Applied Intelligence</p></td><td><p>2 September 2013</p></td><td><p>31 March 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Typhoon Campaign Coordinator</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>27 January 2014</p></td><td><p>31 December 2015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Joint Export Management Team Member</p></td><td><p>MBDA UK Limited</p></td><td><p>10 February 2014</p></td><td><p>26 February 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Protocol Officer</p></td><td><p>BAE Systems</p></td><td><p>8 September 2014</p></td><td><p>6 March 2015</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/12/2014 14:19:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

166220

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Royal Bank of 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 information has been provided to his Department since May 2014 by the Royal Bank of Scotland in respect of the running of its Global Restructuring Group.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	216222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>I can confirm that this Department has not been provided with any such information.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 03/12/2014 16:26:51 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn