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455186

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date	25/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Prosecutions
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 successful prosecutions there have been against employers who have taken action against workers who have refused to work on Sundays under Section 45 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	28491
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Section 45 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 gives certain shop workers and betting workers the right not to be subjected to detriment by their employers on the ground that the employee refused (or proposed to refuse) to do shop work, or betting work, on Sundays. This right can be enforced by bringing a complaint to the employment tribunal. There is no relevant criminal offence, so there have been no prosecutions.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/03/2016 15:28:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

455189

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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 place in the Library the most recent submissions made by the parties involved in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.
tabling member constituency	Wrexham
tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
uin	28524
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>The European Commission has published a large number of documents relating to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) on its website, including EU proposals for legal text, position papers and factsheets.</p><p> </p><p>The Commission and the US have agreed that national parliamentarians should have access to classified TTIP documents, including consolidated texts, via reading rooms in national ministries. Restrictions placed on these rooms include that they are only accessible to officials of Member State central governments and Members of Member State national Parliaments.</p><p> </p><p>The UK intends to establish such a reading room in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). This will give equivalent access to documents for Members of both Houses to that afforded to Members of the European Parliament. Members of both Houses will be informed of the process and details of how to access the room shortly, once these have been finalised.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/03/2016 17:55:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

455190

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what research has been commissioned by his Department into the effects of the extension of Sunday opening hours in each year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	28540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In 2006 Indepen were commissioned by the DTI to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of extending Sunday Trading hours, a copy of the report can be found on the GOV.UK website.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has not commissioned any research since then into the effects of the extension of Sunday opening hours.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 01/03/2016 15:26:19 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

455337

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Nicole Mather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what restrictions are in place on Dr Nicole Mather in her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences in relation to her role as Director of Deloitte's Healthcare and Life Sciences practice.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	28595
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>It is a condition of Nicole’s secondment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) that she ensures that in the course of carrying out the work she is asked to do, there will be no conflict of interest that will cause either embarrassment to, or difficulties for, Nicole, Deloitte or BIS.</p><p> </p><p>As part of her secondment agreement to BIS, Nicole has signed up to the Civil Service Code including its values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. The secondment agreement sets out specific requirements around shareholdings, use of information gained in the course of her work in BIS, directorships, being a partner in a partnership, and the application of the Business Appointment Rules if Nicole wishes to take up another role within 2 years of the end of her secondment to BIS.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/03/2016 15:32:15 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

455339

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Nicole Mather
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 salary of Dr Nicole Mather is for her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	28594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Nicole Mather is an employee of Deloitte on secondment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In line with transparency requirements, her Full Time Equivalent (FTE) salary with Deloitte, which is reimbursed by BIS, has been published as part of the Cabinet Office senior officials “high earners” salaries available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/senior-officials-high-earners-salaries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/senior-officials-high-earners-salaries</a> . This states that her total pay floor as at 30 September 2015 was £150,000, and the ceiling was £154,999. This is within the civil service FTE pay band for SCS PB2. Nicole’s Deloitte contract is 80% FTE and thus she receives 80% of this salary.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/03/2016 11:23:00 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

455356

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Nicole Mather
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much has been claimed in reimbursement expenses by Dr Nicole Mather in her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 to date.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	28592
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Dr Nicole Mather is an employee of Deloitte on secondment to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). In her role as Director of the Office for Life Sciences, Nicole has claimed reimbursement expenses including travel, accommodation and subsistence within the UK, Europe and the US in the course of carrying out her role and when accompanying the Minister for Life Sciences, for the period (a) 2014-15 to a total of £772.44 and period (b) 2015-16 a total of £1,009.90 to date.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 01/03/2016 11:26:21 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

454737

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Public Consultation
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 the Government took to ensure that its response to its consultation, Sunday Trading, published in August 2015, took substantive account of the range of responses to that consultation.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	28326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has conscientiously taken into account all the responses and evidence submitted during the consultation in formulating our proposals.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 13:54:48 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

454739

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Public Consultation
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 Government has not yet published its analysis of responses to its consultation, Sunday Trading, published in August 2015.
tabling member constituency	Lincoln
tabling member printed	Karl McCartney
uin	28327
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government published its response to the consultation on 9 February, in which it sets out its analysis of responses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 13:52:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney

454744

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Manufacturing Industries
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 implications for his Department's practice in consulting manufacturers on policy of the findings by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in its report, Engineered in Britain, on the proportion of manufacturers who consider that the Government is performing well on manufacturing policy.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	28190
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>The Institution of Mechanical Engineers report “Engineered in Britain” states that the proportion of manufacturers who consider that the Government is performing well on manufacturing policy rose from 12% in 2011 to 24% in 2015. BIS Ministers and officials hold regular discussions with manufacturing companies and their representatives, including the Sector Councils, to develop a clear understanding of the capabilities and needs of UK manufacturing. Most recently, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills spoke at the EEF National Manufacturing Conference on 24 February 2016 and I attended and spoke at the EEF National Manufacturing Dinner on the same date.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 02/03/2016 11:36:42 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

454748

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Electricity: Prices
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 reason the report commissioned by his Department from Ecofys on international electricity prices has not yet been published; when the Government plans to publish that report; and whether that report found that electricity price increases for energy intensive industries as a result of climate policies will be larger in the UK than any other country.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	28214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department is currently reviewing the findings of the Ecofys international energy price comparisons report. We are considering publication options but the report found that the increase in electricity prices for energy intensive industries varies considerably by country depending on their climate change policy landscape.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 13:59:59 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham