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48116

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, who made the decisions and on what basis were the decisions made on how many shares would go to each priority investor, each institutional investor and each retail investor in respect of the privatisation of Royal Mail.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	196282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government set the overall allocation policy with the aim of getting the right balance between longer-term, stable investors, retail investors and shorter-term investors who provide liquidity in the market.</p><p> </p><p>Allocations were made to a number of institutions who in the early stages of engagement were willing to place non-binding orders despite the risks attached to the IPO such as the industrial relations situation. These investors gave us confidence that there was sufficient demand to proceed with the IPO.</p><p> </p><p>We had nearly three-quarters of a million retail applications so their allocations were scaled back as they were for institutional investors. Given this high demand, Ministers decided to prioritise smaller investors and put in place a cut-off above £10,000 and give everyone below that the same number of shares. Around 95% of retail investors were allocated shares.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

48117

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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
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 in cash terms and what proportion of total university funding came from (a) domestic tuition fees, (b) foreign student fees, (c) public funding and (d) external sponsorship in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	196285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>Information on the finances of English Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). A summary of the income of publicly-funded HEIs in England from Home and EU Tuition Fees, Non-EU Tuition Fees, Public Funding and External Sponsorship has been provided in the table.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Income of publicly-funded higher education institutions<sup>(1)</sup></strong></p><p>English Higher Education Institutions</p><p>Academic year 2012/13</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Income<br>(£ millions)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Share of Total Income (%)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Course Fee Income</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>10,142</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>41.7%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of which…</p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Home &amp; EU Tuition Fees</p></td><td><p>6,479</p></td><td><p>26.6%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-EU Tuition Fees</p></td><td><p>2,997</p></td><td><p>12.3%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Tuition Fee Income<sup>(2)</sup></p></td><td><p>666</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Public Funding <sup>(3)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>8,580</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>35.3%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>External Sponsorship <sup>(4)</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>5,598</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>23.0%</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total Income</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>24,320</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>100.0%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: HESA Finance Record</em></p><p>Notes:</p><p>All figures are rounded to the nearest £ million and, as a result, columns may not total correctly.</p><p><sup> </sup></p><p><sup>(1) </sup>The University of Buckingham are the only non-publicly funded HEI to return financial data to HESA and their income has been omitted from the final figures.</p><p><sup>(2) </sup>Other Tuition Fee Income includes income received from FE Courses and Non-Credit bearing courses.</p><p><sup>(3) </sup>Public Funding refers to funding received from Funding Bodies, BIS Research Councils, UK Central Government, Local Authorities, Health and Hospital Authorities and EU Government Bodies.</p><p><sup>(4) </sup>External Sponsorship refers to income from non-public sources including research grants and other income from EU and UK industry, commerce and other corporations.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab

48139

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the Office for National Statistics has had with EU counterparts about differences in the way projected growth is estimated.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	196291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ196291.pdf title ONS Letter - Projected Growth
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

48142

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many VAT431NB claims have been submitted in each of the last 32 quarters.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	196287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Data on these forms is not kept on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 196288 question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

48143

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many VAT431C claims have been submitted in each of the last 32 quarters.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	196288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>Data on these forms is not kept on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 196287 question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

48145

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the loss to the public purse as a result of illicit, illegal and smuggled tobacco in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Witham
tabling member printed	Priti Patel
uin	196391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p><strong>Estimates of the volume and total revenue losses associated with the tobacco illicit market are published in ‘Tobacco Tax Gap estimates: 2012-13'. The figures are available in tables 4.1 and 4.5. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>These estimates cannot be disaggregated by the type of illicit activity, e.g. through smuggling, counterfeiting or other fraud.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The methodology for producing the estimates are provided in the ‘Methodological Annex for Measuring Tax Gaps 2013'.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Both documents can be accessed via the following page on the HMRC website:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measuring-tax-gaps" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/measuring-tax-gaps</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Loughborough answering member printed Nicky Morgan grouped question UIN 196390 question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4027 label Biography information for Baroness Morgan of Cotes
tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

48160

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many homes have been self-built in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	196286
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department does not hold official statistics.</p><p>To assist the preparation and implementation of policy to support self-builders, the Department is examining how best the take-up of self-build can be quantified.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

48166

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funds his Department has allocated (a) for identifying troubled families and (b) in performance payments for turning those families around to each local authority participating in the Troubled Families Programme to date.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	196481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The funding for the troubled families programme does not operate on an ‘allocation' basis; the programme operates as set out in the financial framework: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/11469/2117840.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/11469/2117840.pdf</a></p><p>Up to £448 million has been allocated in total as a budget for this programme with up to £4,000 available for each family turned around. The latest performance information broken down by local authority area can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/troubled-families-programme-progress-by-31-december-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/troubled-families-programme-progress-by-31-december-2013</a> and more recent information covering the period up until February 2014 is due to be published shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

48167

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to give local authorities greater powers to deal with the consumption of legal highs in a public place; and what support he is providing to councils who wish to put by-laws in place to prevent such consumption.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	196379
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>As stated in my answer to the Honourable Member of 7 April 2014, Official <br>Report, column 112W, on 12 December 2013 I announced a review by an expert panel to look <br>at how the UK's response to new psychoactive substances, sometimes inaccurately <br>called ‘legal highs', can be enhanced beyond the existing measures. The expert panel includes <br>a senior policy adviser from the Local Government Association to inform the <br>work of the panel from a local government perspective, including whether <br>existing by-laws may be used to tackle this damaging trade. This work is <br>ongoing, and the panel is due to report its recommendations by the end of <br>spring 2014.<br><br>To support local authorities, the Home Office published guidance in December <br>2013 setting out the range of legislative tools local authorities can use to <br>tackle the 'head shops' where these substances are often sold. This was developed in <br>collaboration with the Department for Communities and Local Government, the <br>Local Government Association and the Trading Standards Institute and can be <br>found here: <br>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/action-against-head-shops<br><br>The guidance covers offences head shops may be committing under the Misuse of <br>Drugs Act 1971, the Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Act 1985, and various <br>consumer protection regulations. <br><br>The Home Office has also provided targeted support to local authorities with <br>testing of new psychoactive substances through the Forensic Early Warning <br>System, to help them take action against the sale of these products by <br>identifying the contents.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

48174

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has made an assessment of the recommendations contained in the Association of Business Recovery Professionals publication entitled Level Playing Field: SMEs, taxpayers, and the Football Creditors Rule.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Mr Bob Ainsworth
uin	196373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2014 answer text <p>R3 has made some interesting recommendations which the football authorities should consider carefully. The football authorities have already made some changes, notably through agreeing “financial fair play” rules, salary caps and an early warning system for tax debts, as well as to governance arrangements, to increase financial stability in the leagues and to increase transparency for creditors.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 28/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	306 label Biography information for Mr Bob Ainsworth