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48112

registered interest
date	10/04/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what levels of stock the Law Officers' Departments hold of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	196196
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service has reduced its expenditure on stationery substantially since 2010, however inventories of stationery items and office consumables are not maintained and to calculate the stock levels held would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p>The remaining Law Officers' Departments operate &quot;Just in Time&quot; purchasing for most stationery items and do not therefore keep details on the exact levels of stock of stationery, printer cartridges, treasury tags and other fasteners, or other office consumables. Providing such information would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 29/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

48113

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, what levels of stock his Department holds of (a) stationery, (b) printer cartridges, (c) treasury tags and other fasteners and (d) other office consumables.
tabling member constituency	Wokingham
tabling member printed	Mr John Redwood
uin	196195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Staff are encouraged to help reduce waste in the Department by avoiding printing documents unless completely necessary and by reusing or recycling stationery where appropriate. The default setting on BIS printers is to print in black and white and to print double sided. This uses less energy and ink and cuts down on the demand for paper and reduces costs.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	14 label Biography information for Sir John Redwood

48118

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 many staff in the Hull Official Receiver's office have been offered voluntary redundancy terms.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>All 43 employees in Hull have been offered work in the Insolvency Service's Leeds office as well as assistance with travel. Voluntary redundancy terms have also been offered to all 43 employees in case they do not wish to or are unable to make the move. Employees who choose not to relocate will be eligible for assistance from the Insolvency Service's outplacement support programme, and will be given priority access to vacancies across the wider Civil Service.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48119

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 many directors of each Official Receiver's office were disqualified in the year ending 31 March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196336
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>Detailed in the following table is the office breakdown for the number of directors disqualified in the year ended 31 March 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>OR Offices</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Total number of Disqualifications</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Anglia</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Midlands</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands &amp; S Yorks</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber and E Yorks</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Essex</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Herts, Bucks</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mid West and N Wales</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West England</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>270</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>PIU</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>156</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48120

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 many disqualification reports were submitted by each Official Receiver's office in the year ending 31 March 2014.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196334
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>Detailed in the following table is the office breakdown for the number of disqualification reports submitted in the year ended 31 March 2014.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>OR Offices</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of reports submitted</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Anglia</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Central Midlands</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands &amp; S Yorks</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber and E Yorks</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kent</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Essex</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London - Herts, Bucks</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mid West and N Wales</p></td><td><p>21</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Central</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Wales</p></td><td><p>26</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Surrey and Sussex</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West England</p></td><td><p>17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>289</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>PIU</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South</p></td><td><p>36</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>107</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48121

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, what estimate he has made of the monetary value to the wider economy of a bankruptcy restriction order or undertaking.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196337
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>No monetary value assessment to the wider economy of a bankruptcy restrictions order or undertaking has been undertaken.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

48125

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, what estimate he has made of the annual (a) total cost and (b) cost per (i) female and (ii) male employee of maternity and paternity leave.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	196413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2014 answer text <p>The Government carried out an analysis of the costs and benefits of providing leave for mothers and fathers in the impact assessment which accompanied its consultation on the administration of shared parental leave which was published in February 2013. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/110692/13-651-modern-workplaces-shared-parental-leave-and-pay-impact-assessment2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/110692/13-651-modern-workplaces-shared-parental-leave-and-pay-impact-assessment2.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The impact assessment reflects the fact that there are costs for both the Exchequer and business associated with the taking of maternity and paternity leave. Business costs include, for example, where employers provide occupational maternity or paternity schemes which go beyond the statutory minimum, and the costs associated with recruiting staff to cover a period of absence.</p><p> </p><p>In relation to Exchequer costs, the Government collects data on the total amount of statutory paternity pay and statutory maternity pay paid to employees by employers and uses this to estimate the numbers taking paternity/maternity leave and the size of average, or average weekly, claims. These figures represent the cost to the Exchequer rather than business as statutory payments can be reclaimed by the employer. The latest available figures for the costs to the Exchequer are as follows:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Maternity pay and maternity allowance</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of claimants commencing in year 2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total claimed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average claim (2010/11)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maternity Pay</p></td><td><p>355,000</p></td><td><p>£2.2 billion</p></td><td><p>£5,890</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source: Expenditure is from employer returns to HMRC and is the average amount recovered by employers. Average claim and spells commencing is based on L2 data (a 1% sample of HMRC National Insurance Contribution records). </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average number of claimants at any one time: May 2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Expenditure: 2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average weekly claim: May 2013</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maternity Allowance</p></td><td><p>57,400</p></td><td><p>£395 million</p></td><td><p>£117.57</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source: A combination of DWP accounting data and 5% Administrative Data. Further figures on Maternity Allowance are available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics</a></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><ol type="1"><li><strong>SMP</strong><strong>Expenditure is subject to change due to late returns submitted by employers to HM Revenue and Customs.</strong></li><li><strong>Maternity allowance weekly amounts are the average in payment at the end of May 2013.</strong></li><li><strong>Maternity allowance claimants exclude a small number of clerical cases and only include those with a successful claim to Maternity Allowance. </strong></li></ol><p><strong>Paternity pay</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of claimants</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total claimed</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Average claim</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13 </strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay</p></td><td><p>208,600</p></td><td><p>£50.3 million</p></td><td><p>£241.25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Additional Statutory Paternity Pay</p></td><td><p>3,867</p></td><td><p>£5.8 million</p></td><td><p>£1,218</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Note: All figures are estimates using the HMRC CANDIF database. Figures are calculated using a 2% or 3% scan of employer National Insurance returns and scaling the results up to create a 100% estimate. Scan conducted in January 2014.</strong></p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 30/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

48126

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, in what circumstances he uses a calculation of the (a) value of preventing a fatality, (b) willingness to pay and (c) cost-per-quality adjusted life year approach to quantify the value of a policy intervention; what other tools he uses to quantify the benefit of a policy intervention; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen O'Brien
uin	196457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The Green Book and associated supplementary guidance is publicly available on the Treasury web site. It sets out a range of approaches and methods that may be appropriate in a number of different appraisal circumstances.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	427 label Biography information for Mr Stephen O'Brien

48127

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, what recent representations he has received on illegal pump imports into the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	196444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2014 answer text <p>I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department of Energy and Climate Change.</p><p> </p><p>We have had no representations on illegal pump imports. The National Measurement Office (NMO) is the designated Market Surveillance Authority for the UK for products subject to regulations made under the Ecodesign for Energy -related Products Directive, including those for pumps. It takes an intelligence-led and risk-based approach to market surveillance; any evidence of illegal imports should be sent to the NMO (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/placing-energy-related-products-on-the-uk-market" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/placing-energy-related-products-on-the-uk-market</a>) for follow-up and appropriate enforcement action.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 14/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

48128

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 the Insolvency Service paid for fruitless payments in respect of individual and corporate insolvencies in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	196416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is presented in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> Amount Paid</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of cases</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p>172,560.24</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p>247,231.73</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p>279,527.57</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p>575,783.47</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008-09</strong></p></td><td><p>256,956.93</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson