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516144

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	Companies: Registration
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 companies have disclosed information to Companies House on persons with significant control in their company as part of their company register since that requirement came into force on 6 April 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The requirement for companies to have a register of people with significant control was commenced on 6 April. However, the requirement to disclose this information to the Registrar does not commence until 30 June 2016. In most cases companies will deliver this annually with their Confirmation Statement, which replaces the Annual Return.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/05/2016 14:44:39 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516145

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	Directors: Misconduct
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 cases of alleged malpractice by directors of companies the Insolvency Service investigated in each year since 2009; and in each of those years how many directors of such companies were disqualified from practising on account of offences committed (a) in the UK and (b) abroad.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>When a company enters into formal insolvency proceedings, the insolvency practitioner (IP) has to file a report on the conduct of the directors unless an official receiver is in office; and each of those reports is assessed by the Insolvency Service to determine if a more detailed investigation is appropriate. When a company enters into compulsory liquidation, although this is not itself an indication of misconduct, the official receiver will in all cases make enquiries to determine the cause of insolvency and the conduct of the directors of the company.</p><p> </p><p>The number of reports of misconduct submitted by IPs is detailed in the table below, alongside the total number of compulsory liquidations each year.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Reporting year</p></td><td><p>IP reports of misconduct</p></td><td><p>Compulsory liquidations</p></td><td><p>Total disqualifications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>09/10</p></td><td><p>7,030</p></td><td><p>5,418</p></td><td><p>1,386</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>5,373</p></td><td><p>4,573</p></td><td><p>1,453</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>5,401</p></td><td><p>5,125</p></td><td><p>1,165</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>5,335</p></td><td><p>4,001</p></td><td><p>1,034</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>4,671</p></td><td><p>3,734</p></td><td><p>1,282</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>4,620</p></td><td><p>3,588</p></td><td><p>1,210</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>4,277</p></td><td><p>2,778</p></td><td><p>*810</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Disqualifications in the period from April 2015 to December 2015, the latest period for which official statistics are available.</p><p> </p><p>All of these cases relate to companies based in and trading in the UK. In many cases, a disqualification will be obtained in a period subsequent to the submission of a report or the insolvency of the company. Each case may encompass a number of directors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/05/2016 14:25:56 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516146

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	Redundancy
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 extend the protective award to employees made redundant at a company which dismisses more than 20 people across the organisation but fewer than 20 people in individual working environments.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	35812
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text The Government has no plans to bring forward legislation amending collective redundancy provisions and the treatment of ‘establishment’. The European Court of Justice has confirmed that ‘establishment’ means the individual workplace and not necessarily the whole enterprise. answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/05/2016 13:26:25 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 59131 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

516147

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	Austin Reed Group
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 Austin Reed entering administration on the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	35828
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The announcement that Austin Reed has entered administration will be worrying for all those affected. Administrators will be focusing on securing a buyer for the business and we are following the situation closely.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/05/2016 14:41:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

516148

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	Companies: Registration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of companies newly registered with Companies House have been (i) directly incorporated and (ii) set up by third parties such as trust or company service providers in each year since 2004; and in each of those years how many complaints Companies House received about the conduct of companies in each group.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>Companies House does not hold the information requested. Newly incorporated companies are not categorised on the basis of whether they were formed directly or by a third party such as a Trust or Company Service Provider.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/05/2016 13:55:03 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516149

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	Foreign Companies: Property
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 plans to announce the results of the consultation, Property ownership and public contracting by foreign countries: improving transparency, published on 4 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35787
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government is currently analysing the responses to the discussion paper, with a view to announcing its next steps shortly.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/05/2016 09:23:52 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516150

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	Directors: Misconduct
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 referrals the Insolvency Service received from (a) each of the sectoral regulators and (b) any other third party for alleged malpractice by directors of companies in each year since 2009.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/05/2016 answer text <p>The number of complaints received about live companies, and the number of reports received about insolvent companies from insolvency practitioners (IPs), is summarised in the table below. No records are kept of the total number of complaints received about insolvent companies and separate figures are not available for complaints received from regulators.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Reporting year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No complaints received about live companies</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of reports received from IPs</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>09/10</p></td><td><p>5,989</p></td><td><p>7,030</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10/11</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>5,373</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11/12</p></td><td><p>3,523</p></td><td><p>5,401</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12/13</p></td><td><p>3,014</p></td><td><p>5,335</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13/14</p></td><td><p>3,603</p></td><td><p>4,671</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>14/15</p></td><td><p>3,791</p></td><td><p>4,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>15/16</p></td><td><p>3,904</p></td><td><p>4,277</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 05/05/2016 13:53:07 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516151

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	Shares
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 his Department has made of the effect of the ban on bearer shares which came into force on 26 May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35753
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/05/2016 answer text <p>The government introduced a ban on the issue of new bearer shares on 26 May 2015 through the Small Business Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. The legislation provided a transition period to allow existing bearer shareholders to convert their shares into other types of shareholding or to realise their value. The transition period ended on 25 February 2016. Companies notify Companies House of the removal of bearer shares when they file their annual return (which will change to the confirmation statement from 30 June 2016).</p><p>Since 26 May 2015 Companies House has worked closely with the approximately 1,300 companies that had bearer shares as well as their directors and professional representatives. Over 1,233 of those companies have confirmed to Companies House that they have no longer have bearer shares.</p><p>Companies House is monitoring each filing of these companies’ annual return to confirm that the bearer shares have been converted. This exercise will end in February 2017 once the annual filing cycle concludes following the end of the transition period.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 03/05/2016 15:16:39 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516152

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	Foreign Companies: Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to paragraph 15 of Beneficial Ownership Transparency: enhancing transparency of beneficial ownership information of foreign companies undertaking certain economic activities in the UK, published by his Department in March 2016, how much property has been investigated as suspected proceeds of corruption in each year since 2004-05; and what proportion of those properties in each of those years used offshore corporate ownership.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	35755
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold the information requested. Paragraph 15 of the discussion paper refers to information from the 2015 Transparency International Report “Corruption on your Doorstep”. The Metropolitan Police’s Proceeds of Corruption Unit provided the information to inform the report prior to their joining the National Crime Agency to form the International Corruption Unit. I have received the assurance that it is not possible to provide the information broken down by year without redoing the research which would be at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/05/2016 09:24:17 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

516153

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	Business: Education
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 his Department has made of the implementation of Shaping University Curricula to Critical Infrastructure Employer Needs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	35781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government actively encourages collaboration between universities and business to ensure course content meets the needs of employers, including those responsible for critical infrastructure. Higher Education Institutions, as autonomous bodies, are independent from the Government and are responsible for the implementation of SUCCEED.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/05/2016 10:51:04 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn