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179062

	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	Zero Hours Contracts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what definition the Government uses for classifying a zero hours contract.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	223955
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>There is no legal definition of a zero hours contract in UK domestic employment law. In general terms a zero hours contract is an arrangement under which an employer does not guarantee the individual any work, and the individual is not obliged to accept any work offered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The ONS in their Labour Force Survey describe a zero hours contract as a contract ‘where a person is not contracted to work a set number of hours, and is only paid for the number of hours that they actually work’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/02/2015 11:48:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

228339

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	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	Offenders: Literacy
	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 literacy courses were enrolled on by offenders assessed as having a literacy need in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	228241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p> </p><p>Information for each academic year since 2010/11 on prisoner participation in English and maths is published in the FE data library (first link) as a supplementary table (second link) to a Statistical First Release.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of prisoners participating who were assessed as having a literacy need was not recorded for these years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382079/feandskills-OLASS-participation-and-achievement.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382079/feandskills-OLASS-participation-and-achievement.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 23/03/2015 15:14:59 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

391271

	registered interest
	date	20/07/2015
	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 Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what value of export credit guarantees has supported (a) ship manufacturing and (b) marine engineering in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	8001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>Between financial years 2005/6 to 2014/15 inclusive, UK Export Finance has provided support with a value of £501.7m for export contracts related to the shipbuilding and marine engineering sectors. These figures are broken down by category and year in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial Year</p></td><td><p>Shipbuilding</p></td><td><p>Marine Engineering</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/6</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/7</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/8</p></td><td><p>£276.3m</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£276.3m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/9</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£12.1m</p></td><td><p>£12.1m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£22.6m</p></td><td><p>£22.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£6.9m</p></td><td><p>£24.1m</p></td><td><p>£31m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£6.4m</p></td><td><p>£1.2m</p></td><td><p>£7.6m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£8m</p></td><td><p>£143.9m</p></td><td><p>£151.9m</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>TOTAL</p></td><td><p>£297.7m</p></td><td><p>£204m</p></td><td><p>£501.7m</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: UKEF Annual Accounts.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/09/2015 14:29:03 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

222865

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	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	Children: Day Care
	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 (a) men and (b) women in further education received funding for childcare through the (i) Discretionary Learner Support scheme and (ii) Care to Learn scheme in the last academic year; and what the total amount spent on such support was in that period.
	tabling member constituency	Wirral South
	tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
	uin	224914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>Childcare funding is provided though the Discretionary Learner Support Scheme to support learners aged 20 or above who are at risk of not starting learning or not continuing learning as a result of childcare difficulties. Providers declared that spending in the academic year 13/14 was £44.3m. The Skills Funding Agency estimates that this supported around 7000 full time and 7500 part-time learners. Recent research indicates that 97% of the funding is awarded to female learners.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Care to Learn scheme is an Education Funding Agency scheme. 39 men and 5,592 women received help with their childcare costs from the Care to Learn scheme in the 2013 to 2014 academic year. The amount spent on childcare costs in that academic year was £24,262,979. This figure covers childcare costs, associated travel payment and summer retainers (which can be paid to hold childcare places over the summer holiday period if the qualifying criteria are met).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 02/03/2015 14:58:57 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern