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166517

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	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	Arms Trade: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria must be met for an arms export licence to be revoked.
	tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
	tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
	uin	216328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>Article 32(1) of the Export Control Order 2008 (as amended) empowers my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to vary or revoke export licences at any time. The 2008 Order does not specify the grounds on which a licence may be revoked. In practice the reasons include:</p><p> </p><p>(i) As a result of the imposition of EU or UN sanctions;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(ii) Where there has been a change in Government policy in respect of the export of certain goods, or the export of specified goods to a certain destination, and the proposed export is no longer consistent with the revised policy;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(iii) Where there has been a change in circumstances in the destination country or region such that the proposed export is no longer consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria or with other relevant, announced, policies;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(iv) Where new information has come to light about a particular export which indicates that the proposed export is no longer consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria or with other relevant, announced, policies;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(v) Where an exporter has failed to comply with the terms and conditions of the licence, or as a result of enforcement action by HMRC/UK Border Agency; and</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>(vi) For administrative reasons, such as a company ceasing to trade and therefore no longer being able to use the licence, or where the exporter requests an amendment to a licence and revoking and re-issuing it is simpler than making an amendment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/12/2014 15:44:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

166518

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	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	EU External Trade: USA
	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 countries in the proposed TTIP trading bloc domestic courts have failed to provide compensation to foreign corporations whose property has been unfairly confiscated or whose contracts have been unfairly terminated; and what the reasons were for compensation not having been given.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	216258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not routinely hold information on, or assess the fairness or otherwise of, the compensation decisions of courts in other countries except for individual cases that are brought to our attention by British companies.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/12/2014 16:30:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

166544

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	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	Medicine: Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons the cap on the number of dental and medical students has not been extended to cover pharmacy students.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
	tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
	uin	216260
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>Pharmacy students are funded in the same way as chemistry, biology and other science subjects which will not be subject to a student number control at HEFCE funded institutions in 2015/16. Medicine and dentistry attract a much larger amount of Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) grant funding than science subjects like pharmacy. Therefore it would not be appropriate to cap pharmacy student numbers.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 08/12/2014 16:23:55 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

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

166221

	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions the Grocery Code Adjudicator has (a) launched an investigation, (b) recommended enforcement measures and (c) made a recommendation to the Office of Fair Trading that the Code should be changed since publication of the Adjudicator's 2013-14 annual report.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is an independent regulator established under the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am not aware that the Adjudicator has exercised any of these regulatory functions since the publication of her Annual Report for 2013 – 2014 on 22 July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:51:30 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166222

	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	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 he holds on the average time taken by the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to deal with correspondence received from stakeholders.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Correspondence from stakeholders is an operation matter for the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, which is an independent statutory regulator established by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not therefore hold the requested information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:52:53 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166223

	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	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 staff are employed by the Grocery Code Adjudicator.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is a corporation sole created by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013. Consequently, the Adjudicator does not directly employ any staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The office of the Adjudicator is staffed by public sector employees as provided for by Schedule 1 to the 2013 Act. There are currently four staff seconded to the office of the Adjudicator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:54:08 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166224

	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	Hinkley Point C Power Station
	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 potential risk that the development of Hinkley Point C power station may cause a shortage of nuclear engineering skills at Devonport dockyard.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
	tabling member printed	Oliver Colvile
	uin	216006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2014 answer text <p>A detailed assessment has been carried out of future skills needs for the civil nuclear new build programme, including the Hinkley Point C development. That assessment, carried out by skills bodies on behalf of the Nuclear Industry Council, included input from Ministry of Defence (MoD), who are members of that Council.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant departments – Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Energy &amp; Climate Change (DECC), Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Work &amp; Pensions (DWP) – are working with industry to ensure that a coordinated approach is taken to meeting future skills demand, including for engineers in both the civil and defence sectors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/12/2014 15:47:22 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4022 label Biography information for Oliver Colvile

166225

	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	Higher Education: Radicalism
	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 the Minister for Universities has had with the Welsh Government Minister for Education on tackling extremism and radicalisation in universities; and what plans he has to meet his counterparts in the devolved administrations to discuss tackling extremism and radicalisation in universities across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
	tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
	uin	216009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I have discussed these matters with the Minister for Education in the Welsh Government. The Government continues to work closely with the Welsh Government and other partners in Wales, including through a ‘Preventing Extremism’ coordinator who supports Universities and Colleges to help them prevent radicalisation and tackle extremism. Officials are also undertaking discussions with Devolved Administrations with regard to the recently introduced Counter –Terrorism and Security Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/12/2014 16:12:51 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 30928 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

166226

	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	Business: Gillingham
	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 his Department has taken to increase the level of access to credit to businesses in Gillingham and Rainham constituency in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
	tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
	uin	216025
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>Small businesses are vital to our economy and our small business owners have driven this economic recovery. The Gillingham and Rainham constituency has benefitted from a number of support schemes. The Business Bank’s Start-Up Loan programme has already provided 15 loans, with a value of £88,800 to people starting a business in Gillingham and Rainham. And since May 2010, the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme has supported 10 loans in the area with a total value of £1.06m.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to making Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a business, and are doing this in a number of ways, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><ul><li>£10 billion of financing will be unlocked for smaller business over the next 5 years by our British Business Bank;</li><li>Government grants of up to £3,000 for better internet connectivity are available to small businesses;</li></ul><p> </p><p>· The Business Support Helpline is available to provide bespoke information and advice;</p><p> </p><p>· £2,000 cut from the National Insurance bills of small firms from the new Employment Allowance; and</p><p> </p><p>· The Growth Accelerator scheme has supported over 19,800 firms and is on track to create 55,000 jobs and deliver £2.2 billion of economic growth by March 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 216026 question first answered 01/12/2014 14:26:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti