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426403

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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: Internet
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what specific steps they are taking to help SMEs to move online.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL3342
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>As part of our wider support for small businesses, Government has provided funding to Local Enterprise Partnerships to extend the reach of their digital support for small firms. We are also increasing the number of Digital Trade Advisors working around the country to help small businesses expand into new overseas markets.</p><br /><p>Government supports the extensive range of private sector-led activity to help small businesses improve their digital skills. We particularly welcome the work that Go ON UK does to encourage and join up this activity.</p><br /><p>In addition to this, Government’s Broadband Connection Voucher Scheme allowed businesses to apply for grants of up to £3,000 to help them move to a faster digital market and connect to superfast broadband. The initiative has now allocated all of the £40m available funding since April 2015, with more than 55,000 small businesses across the UK taking up the offer.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/11/2015 11:59:55 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont

426414

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Languages: Education
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will continue to fund the Routes into Languages programme after the current funding expires in July 2016.
tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
uin	HL3353
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>This programme is funded by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE). HEFCE will review its spending priorities (including for Routes into Languages) in the light of its grant settlement from Government, following the Spending Review.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 18/11/2015 13:23:23 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

426422

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Construction: Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report by KPMG <i>Skills to Build?</i>, stating that housebuilding capacity could be restricted by a construction skills shortage; and whether they will take steps to increase the amount of education and training places for construction trades.
tabling member printed	Lord Greaves
uin	HL3361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government has made no separate assessment of the KPMG report. There are a number of reports that provide a good indication of the skills the construction industry believes it will require between 2015 and 2019, for both housing and wider construction.</p><br /><p>The Government values post-16 education, including construction education and training, highly. We have made substantial progress driving up the quality and rigour of the post-16 offer, and area-based reviews of 16+ provision are providing an opportunity for institutions and localities to restructure provision to achieve maximum impact.</p><br /><p>Initiatives, by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), or flowing from the work of the Construction Leadership Council, are seeking to encourage more young people into construction careers including the launch of the <em>GO-Construct</em> website and work with the National Careers Service and Construction Ambassadors for schools. In addition the CITBhas developed a range of initiatives, working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, the Armed Forces resettlement service and Local Enterprise Partnerships, to encourage experienced individuals into the sector.</p><br /><p>While CITB returned over £42m last year, supporting 18,500 first, second and third year construction apprentices, it is clear that the sector is not currently offering enough apprenticeships nor opportunities for young people to train. The 17,000 apprenticeships starts in 2015/16 is still some way below the 27,000 offered in 2006. The CITB has developed a number of shared apprenticeships schemes and reformed the grant process to encourage apprenticeship take up. In addition, the Government continues to pay AGE grant, on top of its usual support for the training of young apprentices, to encourage companies to take on their first apprentices.</p><br /> <br /><p>At the summer budget the Chancellor announced a levy on large employers across all sectors to fund apprenticeships. This will link larger employers directly to its skills investment and promote the value, and drive the uptake, of apprenticeships.</p><br /><p>The Chancellor will announce further details of the apprenticeship levy, including the scope and rate, at the Spending Review.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 20/11/2015 12:04:55 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	2569 label Biography information for Lord Greaves

426443

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Exports
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to support growth in UK exports in the light of recent reports from the British Chambers of Commerce that growth in orders for export has slowed.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3382
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>Last week, we launched the new Exporting is GREAT marketing campaign which aims to inspire and support 100,000 additional exporters by 2020. This will run for five years as part of the world-renowned GREAT campaign and presents real-time export opportunities across various media and digital channels to UK businesses. We will ensure that in future the whole of Government isengagedin providing support forexports.</p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 19/11/2015 14:35:53 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

426448

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	15037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>All regulations implementing EU legislation that have been introduced since 2013 and their associated impacts can be found on <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk</a>. The impact of future regulations that implement EU legislation will also be available on this site in due course.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/11/2015 14:51:57 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

426449

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
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 (a) he and (b) his Department made to secure a buyer for Redcar coke ovens and blast furnace before the Official Receiver called for a hard closure.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	14993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>Commercial decisions on the purchase of assets are the prerogative of the companies involved and government has no powers to oblige companies to purchase assets.</p><br /><p>On liquidation of a company, it is the responsibility of the liquidator to sell the free assets of the company. In the case of SSI UK, this was the Official Receiver.</p><br /><p>I am informed that the Official Receiver did maintain operations at SSI, including the coke ovens, for a period while he tried to find purchasers for the assets of SSI UK but as of the 12 October, no purchaser had been found and the Official Receiver ceased operations of the coke ovens and blast furnace.</p><br /> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/11/2015 14:13:33 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

426450

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
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 the closure of Redcar coke ovens and blast furnace on the local economy.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	14994
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>The closure of SSI in Redcar will undoubtedly have a significant impact on individuals, the supply chain and local economy more broadly. That is why we have announced a support package, worth up to £80 million, to support the future of the Tees Valley economy and we are working closely with a local Task Force, chaired by Amanda Skelton, to deliver this support.</p><br /><p>In total we have agreed over £40 million of support aimed at skills and jobs creation:</p><br /><ul><li>£3m has been made available to four Further Education colleges in the region to support re-training activity, as well as a further £2.65m skills funding to plug any gaps in skills provision not available via the Further Education Offer;</li><li>£1.7m to ensure that the fifty apprentices who were with SSI can continue their apprenticeships with alternative employers;</li></ul><ul><li>A £16.5m Jobs and Skills Fund to help local firms employ former SSI workers or their spouses in full-time or part-time jobs for a minimum of three years;</li><li>£16m support for firms in the SSI supply chain and wider Tees Valley impacted by the Redcar steelworks closure, to safeguard jobs, provide the stimulus to create new posts and provide expert assistance to help them expand their business</li><li>£750,000 to fund advice and grants to start up a new business.</li></ul><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/11/2015 14:47:35 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

426451

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
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 his Department holds on how many bids were received by the Official Receiver to buy or operate any element of the former SSI site in Redcar prior to the Receiver's decision on hard closure.
tabling member constituency	Redcar
tabling member printed	Anna Turley
uin	14995
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State does not hold information regarding the number of bids received by the Official Receiver in respect to the former SSI site. The Official Receiver holds this information in his statutory role as an independent liquidator appointed by the Court. The Official Receiver received a number of expressions of interest in various assets of the company but none were translated into viable offers for the coke ovens or blast furnace ahead of his decisions to close them on 12 October 2015. The Official Receiver can be contacted at the address below: Ken Beasley, Official Receiver, Public Interest Unit, 2<sup>nd</sup> Floor, 3 Piccadilly Place, London Road, Manchester, M1 3BN.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/11/2015 14:11:02 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4449 label Biography information for Anna Turley

426453

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Open University
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on the Open University's plans to close regional centres across England.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	15064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <p>The Open University is an autonomous institution and it is for them to make decisions about how best to structure their workforce and meet the needs of their students.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/11/2015 12:29:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

426455

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Apprentices: Primary Health Care
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 is taking to promote the development of healthcare assistants in primary care by means of apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	15146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Provisional 2014/15 data show that there were 105,800 apprenticeships starts in the healthcare sector.</p><br /><p>We are committed to delivering employer-led apprenticeship reforms, and will continue working with employers, developing more high quality apprenticeships that are responsive to the needs of business.</p><br /><p>The Healthcare Trailblazer, supported by Skills for Health, NHS Trusts and private organisations, has published two new healthcare apprenticeship standards, and more are in development.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 26/11/2015 14:29:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy