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78330

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will estimate the annual cost to the Law Officers' Departments of (a) stationery and (b) postage incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The stationery and postage costs incurred when sending a ministerial reply to hon. Members are not seperately identifiable from general office stationery and postage costs.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 01/09/2014 13:54:44 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78332

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Correspondence
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 take steps to increase the number of replies within his Department's working day standard; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	206131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>The handling of correspondence is given the highest priority by the Department and we aim to respond to all correspondence within 15 working days. For the calendar year ending 31 December 2013, the latest period for which figures are available, 93% of responses to MPs and Peers were answered within our target of 15 working days. This represents an increase of 9% over the previous year’s performance.</p><p>Guidance on handling correspondence from Members of Parliament, Peers, MEPs and Members of devolved Administrations will be updated in due course.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61196/guide-handling-gov-correspondence.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61196/guide-handling-gov-correspondence.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 28/08/2014 15:06:20 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

78337

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Exports
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 firms have taken part in the Passport to Export scheme in each year of its operation.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>Passport to Export has been running for over 10 years and in most years around 1,200 companies have been signed to the scheme. That number was increased in 2013/14. Since 2010 for which data is readily available, the number of companies signed to the scheme is as follows:</p><p>2010/11: 1114</p><p>2011/12: 1215</p><p>2012/13: 1336</p><p>2013/14: 2686</p><p>2014/15: 956 (April to July)</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/08/2014 15:51:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78339

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Takeovers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions and meetings (a) officials and (b) Ministers in his Department have held with the European Commission on takeovers and public interest tests since 20 April 2014.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Ministers and officials frequently have conversations with the European Commission on a range of issues. Since 20 April 2014, this issue was discussed at a meeting between officials on 16 May 2014.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 22/07/2014 14:35:15 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78342

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Sunday Trading
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what studies, statistics or other briefings have been commissioned or purchased by his Department on the issue of Sunday trading in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has not commissioned or purchased any studies on the issue of Sunday Trading in the past 12 months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 22/07/2014 13:24:08 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78344

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Post Boxes
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 number of post boxes that have been decommissioned since the privatisation of Royal Mail.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	206301
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 206302 206303 206304 question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

78345

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Exports
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 firms have been allocated funds which have subsequently been withdrawn with the removal of match funding under the Passport to Export scheme.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/08/2014 answer text <p>No companies offered matched funding under UK Trade &amp; Investment’s Passport to Export Scheme have had that offer of funding removed.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/08/2014 15:48:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78346

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Post Boxes
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 adequacy of the procedures for consultation before the decommissioning of post boxes by Royal Mail.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	206302
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 206301 206303 206304 question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

78347

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Property: Greater London
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 and what proportion of properties in each London borough sold in each year since 2010 were sold to foreign buyers.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Sadiq Khan
uin	206265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/08/2014 answer text <p>The information requested has been placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 29/08/2014 09:25:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1577 label Biography information for Sadiq Khan

78348

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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
hansard heading	Post Boxes
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 representations to Royal Mail on the need to conduct local consultation prior to the decommissioning of post boxes.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	206303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 206301 206302 206304 question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir