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431532

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Ethnic Groups: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to increase racial diversity in the workplace in the light of the Business in the Community report <i>Race at Work 2015</i>, which found that ethnic minority Britons are struggling against bias at work.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 protects all individuals against racial and other forms of discrimination in the workplace. The Prime Minister has underlined the Government’s commitments to increasing racial diversity in the workplace in his 2020 Vision in which he made a commitment to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020. Her Majesty’s Government welcomes the publication of the Race at Work report and will study its recommendations carefully,.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/12/2015 12:23:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

431535

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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: EU Law
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are holding discussions about reducing EU regulation of UK business.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Reducing the burden of EU regulation is a critical element of stimulating jobs, competitiveness and growth in Europe. We welcome the European Commission’s recent progress in this area, but want them to go further. Together with other like-minded Member States, we are pressing the Commission to bring forward proposals for an EU target to cut the total burden on business, in line with the Prime Minister’s EU reform letter to European Council President Tusk.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/12/2015 16:07:35 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

431562

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Small Businesses
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking in response to data published by the European Commission in its 2015 Annual Report on European SMEs, which found that access to finance and finding customers are some of the greatest issues faced by SMEs in the EU.
tabling member printed	Lord Cotter
uin	HL3825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The European Commission’s Annual Report on European SMEs 2014/15 found that, access to finance for SMEs across the EU has decreased in importance with only 13% (down from 15% in 2013) citing it as the most pressing problem in 2014 behind a number of other issues. The UK’s SME Finance Monitor also found that 79% of SME loan and overdraft applications were successful in the 18 months to 2015 Q2, up from 67% in Q4 2013.</p><br /><p>The Government continues to take steps to improve access to finance. The British Business Bank, for example, is supporting £2.4 billion of finance to over 40,000 smaller businesses, and participating in a further £3.3 billion of finance to small mid-sized businesses, as of the end of June. In addition, the implementation of measures in the Small Business and Employment Act 2015 will require the largest banks to refer customers who have been declined finance to alternative providers via designated platforms.</p><p>The report also highlights that finding customers remains a problem for SMEs but that this is relatively less problematic than in previous years. We are supporting SMEs by providing advice on a range of issues through Growth Hubs, which join up local resources; the My Business Support Tool which helps businesses find the support they need quickly; and the Business Support Helpline.</p><br /><p>Government has made public contract opportunities easier to find by making them all accessible on an improved single online portal. The Contracts Finder contains current public sector contracts (above £10,000 in Central Government and £25,000 in the wider public sector) and a forwardpipelineof potential contract opportunities up to 2020.</p><br /><p>Of the 50,000 plus businesses that make up the customer base of UK Trade &amp; Investment, some 90% are SMEs.</p><br /><p>UKTI provides tailored help for SMEs, including: working out which markets suit their business; identifying export opportunities; introducing them to key contacts and setting up business meetings; and helping firms exhibit their goods and services at trade fairs.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 10/12/2015 16:56:25 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3786 label Biography information for Lord Cotter

431569

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Iron and Steel: China
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 potential threat to national security of the involvement of Chinese government companies in the UK steel industry.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	17229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>We scrutinise closely any deal that may have implications for national security.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/11/2015 11:14:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

431570

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Higher Education: 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 estimate he has made of the expected higher education initial participation rate for the 2015-16 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	17216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) publishes statistics on higher education initial participation rates in the annual Statistical First Release <em>“Participation Rates in Higher Education”</em>. The latest figures refer to the 2013-14 academic year and are available at the link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/participation-rates-in-higher-education-2006-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/participation-rates-in-higher-education-2006-to-2014</a></p><br /><p>BIS does not forecast higher education initial participation rates. UCAS has published early statistics on university admissions for the 2015-16 academic year, available at the link: <a href="https://www.ucas.com/sites/default/files/ucas-entry-year-acceptances-day28-2015.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ucas.com/sites/default/files/ucas-entry-year-acceptances-day28-2015.pdf</a></p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/11/2015 14:17:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

431571

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Manufacturing Industries: Employment
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 steps he has taken to prevent the loss of UK manufacturing sector jobs.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	17264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The best way the Government can support manufacturing jobs is to continue to secure a strong, growing economy. The Government continues to invest in our world leading aerospace, automotive, defence, energy and transport sectors that will secure high quality manufacturing jobs.</p><p>Around a third of the 2,000 new inward Foreign Direct Investment projects in 2014/15 were in the areas of advanced manufacturing and life sciences and I was pleased to see that UK manufacturing PMI hit its highest level in over a year in October.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/12/2015 17:44:58 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

431572

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Postgraduate 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 the timescale is for the availability of postgraduate masters degree loans as announced in the Autumn Statement 2014; and whether he plans to extend the loans policy to postgraduate research masters and doctoral research.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	17290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to enhancing its support for postgraduate study and wants more people to have the opportunity to build on their academic success through access to a higher level qualification. The Government has now announced that a Master’s loan will be available to individuals up to age 60 from 2016/17. It also set out details of the next steps to provide more support for Doctoral study.</p><p>Further information is available via the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/postgraduate-study-student-loans-and-other-support" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/postgraduate-study-student-loans-and-other-support</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/12/2015 15:08:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

431573

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Research: Finance
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 adequacy of government funding for translational research programmes; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	17311
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government’s Productivity Plan in July set out our ambition that UK Universities will continue to increase their collaborations with industry to drive the translation and commercialisation of research and broader knowledge exchange. Universities’ external income from engagement with business and the community reached £3.93 billion in 2013-14, up by 27% from 2009-10. The World Economic Forum ranks the UK among the top four nations in the world for university-industry collaboration in R&amp;D. The recent Research Excellence Framework 2014 has demonstrated the breadth and extent of economic impact arising from university research, with 84% of submissions assessed as outstanding or very considerable by expert and academic peer review.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/11/2015 16:52:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

431574

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Foreign Investment in UK
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) foreign direct investment projects were developed in the UK which originated from other EU countries in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15, (b) jobs were created by those projects and (c) jobs were safeguarded by those projects.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton North East
tabling member printed	Emma Reynolds
uin	17379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown of all successful foreign direct investment projects from EU countries in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 together with the estimated number of jobs created and safeguarded, as recorded by UK Trade &amp; Investment.</p><br /><p><strong>Number of Inward FDI Projects originating from EU recorded by UKTI</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br /></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Projects</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>New Jobs</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>Safeguarded jobs</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2012-13</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>485</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>15,053</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>34,824</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2013-14</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>541</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>19,933</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>22,712</strong></del></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2014-15</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>634</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>26,845</strong></del></p></td><td><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>6,076</strong></del></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table><tbody><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Projects</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>New Jobs</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>Safeguarded jobs</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2012-13</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>504</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>15,399</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>35,073</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2013-14</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>564</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>20,432</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>22,805</strong></ins></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>2014-15</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>658</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>28,250</strong></ins></p></td><td><p><ins class="ministerial"><strong>6,686</strong></ins></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: UKTI FDI projects database.</em></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/11/2015 16:02:45 question first ministerially corrected 01/12/2015 14:55:44 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 32327 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4077 label Biography information for Emma Reynolds

431576

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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: North Korea
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government plans to hold or collect any information on the number of UK businesses operating in or contracting with the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	17314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government does not maintain a database of UK businesses operating in or contracting with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.</p><p>Data on the value of trade between UK businesses and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is published by HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC). Information on the number of UK businesses exporting goods to, and importing goods from, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are collected by HMRC. Specific information relating to individual businesses cannot be published due to legislation protecting business confidentiality and in line with statistical disclosure control.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/12/2015 16:30:28 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce