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432168

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Transport: South West
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the contribution of further investment in road and rail infrastructure to economic growth and resilience in the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership area.
tabling member constituency	Taunton Deane
tabling member printed	Rebecca Pow
uin	17570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport and I agree about the vital contribution of road and rail infrastructure to national and local economic growth and resilience. In the Spending Review, the government committed to £7.2 billion of transport investment in the South West, including projects with benefits for the Heart of the South West area such as the £2 billion investment to dual the A303. The government also confirmed that:</p><ul><li>Projects such as the North Devon Link Road will be able to bid for the new £475 million Local Majors Fund.</li><li>It is investing £20 million in the New Stations Fund, which will look at bids including the proposal for a stop between Castle Cary to Taunton.</li><li>The new South Western rail franchise will incentivise bidders to increase capacity and improve passenger satisfaction.</li><li>Existing £195.5m Growth Deal commitments, including transport infrastructure, have been confirmed.</li></ul> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 03/12/2015 14:24:51 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4522 label Biography information for Rebecca Pow

432170

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Spending Review 2015, what savings and efficiencies he will make from the adult skills budget by 2019-20; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	17689
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><br /><p>My Rt hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer published the results of the Spending Review on 25th November. This is a good settlement for FE. Between 2010-11 and 2019-20 government will have doubled spending on apprenticeships in cash terms to £2.5 billion, including income from the new apprenticeship levy and protecting funding for the core adult skills participation budgets in cash terms, at £1.5 billion</p><br /><p>The Government will make £362 million of savings and efficiencies from adult skills funding by 2019-20. We are prioritising funding for participation, with savings being made from supporting budgets. We are also restructuring the sector through locally-led Area Reviews to provide sustainable and high quality provision in the future.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 04/12/2015 14:58:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

432171

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Further Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 24 November 2015 to Question 16786, what estimate he has made of the (a) total, (b) staffing and (c) resources cost of conducting area-based reviews of post-16 education and training institutions.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	17719
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/12/2015 answer text <p>The Departments and their agencies will undertake this work with no additional staffing. Additional costs will be minimal. The Departments and agencies have re-prioritised from within existing resources to accommodate the additional work, including providing access to additional advice and support from further education and six form colleges Advisers.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/12/2015 10:37:31 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

432172

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what mechanisms are in place to ensure transparency of the ownership of limited partnerships; what plans he has to (a) improve such transparency and (b) ensure that such partnerships are not set up for money laundering purposes; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	17732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>To improve transparency, the Department has established a publicly accessible central register of people with significant control (PSC register) through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015.</p><p>The PSC register will be an easily accessible single source of information about the ultimate owners and controllers of UK companies, Limited Liability Partnerships and Societas Europeae. From June 2016, these corporate entities will be required to make their beneficial ownership information publically available through the UK register of companies.</p><p>It is already a legal requirement that the name of each of the partners of limited partnerships be submitted to Companies House on registration. This information is available to the public free of charge through the new Companies House beta service. Companies House also works collaboratively with other government departments and agencies to tackle crime and fraud, including money laundering.</p><p>We are currently considering the scope of the UK register to ensure we comply with the European Union’s Fourth Money Laundering Directive, which requires corporate and other legal entities to obtain and hold beneficial ownership information.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/12/2015 11:38:20 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

432173

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
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	Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on the European Commission's request of 18 June 2015 to five EU member states to terminate intra-EU bilateral investment treaties.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	17742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>The UK is participating in discussions with the Commission and other Member States on possible options and approaches towards handling the Commission’s request, regarding the termination of these treaties. These discussions are at an early stage and no consensus has been reached among Member States.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/12/2015 14:26:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

432178

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Skin Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of advanced melanoma there have been in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
tabling member printed	John Mann
uin	17643
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2015 answer text <p>Staging is the term used to describe the size of the cancer tumour and how far the disease has spread. Stage 1 and 2 relate to cancers that are isolated to the organ in which they started; stage 3 and 4 refer to cancers where the disease has spread to lymph nodes or other organs within the body. This is considered advanced melanoma.</p><p><br></p><p>The number of cases of melanoma diagnosed by stage in 2013 is shown in the table below, 931 cases of were diagnosed as advanced, 8.8% of all melanoma diagnosis.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="7"><p>Stage of melanoma at diagnosis in England (2013)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>unknown</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of cases</p></td><td><p>7,597</p></td><td><p>2,038</p></td><td><p>623</p></td><td><p>308</p></td><td><p>1,773</p></td><td><p>12,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion</p></td><td><p>71.9%</p></td><td><p>19.3%</p></td><td><p>5.9%</p></td><td><p>2.9%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Data is only available for year 2013. The staging of cancer tumours in other years is not available, due to data coding and data quality issues.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 04/12/2015 14:41:11 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

432185

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, who the special advisers to his Department are; what the salary is of each of those advisers; and which of those advisers are on the Council of Economic Advisers.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	17648
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>Information on Special Adviser numbers and remuneration across Government departments will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 02/12/2015 16:13:41 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

432189

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Financial Services: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, for how long the Financial Conduct Authority requires banks to retain data records relating to financial services.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	17593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2015 answer text <p>The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) repeals the existing Market Abuse Directive with effect from 3 July 2016 and will have direct application in the UK. It is therefore necessary to make relevant changes to the UK’s existing domestic regime, which is set out primarily in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Handbook, to ensure that national law complies with MAR. The necessary changes are currently being considered by HM Treasury and the FCA.</p><br /><p>In relation to record-keeping requirements, FCA rules require investment firms and credit institutionsto maintain orderlyrecords of theirbusiness, including all services and transactions undertaken by them. These mustbe sufficient to enable the FCAto monitor the firm's compliance with its regulatory requirements and retained for a period of at least five years. Therules alsoincludespecific requirements for firmstorecordtelephone<strong>conversations</strong>and electronic communications regarding client orders and dealing on own account. These must be retained for a period of at least six months.</p><br /><p>The FCA supervises firms against therules, including on record keeping, as part of theirongoing supervisory work. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 permitsthe FCA to impose appropriate fines, which are not limited, for the contravention on a requirement imposed on them under the Act. The FCA are required to publisha policy statement setting outhow they determinethe appropriate level of financial penalty. This can be foundhere:<a href="https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/DEPP/6/1.html?date=2015-10-27" target="_blank">https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/DEPP/6/1.html?date=2015-10-27</a>.</p><br /><p>The EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) introduced a harmonised framework for investor protection in the EU. The Government has supported a revised directive,MiFID II, which will replace itfrom 2017. MiFID IIintroducesmore detailed EU requirements on record keeping and an EU wide taping regime, aimed at strengthening investor protection and enhancing market integrity. This will also extend the period telephone conversations and electronic communications must be retained for to at least five years.​</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin grouped question UIN 17146 17148 17149 17172 17174 question first answered 02/12/2015 17:37:17 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

432191

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations were carried out by HM Revenue and Customs National Minimum Wage compliance officers in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	17623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW should contact the confidential Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them. However, some complaints may not lead to the commencement of an investigation. This might be due to incomplete information being provided, or the worker subsequently wishing to withdraw their complaint. Similarly, multiple complaints about the same employer would only be recorded under one investigation.</p><br /><p>In 2014/15, 2489 worker complaints and 691 pieces of third party information were referred to HMRC. However, I reiterate that not all complaints will lead to an investigation. In previous years, HMRC did not record statistics by complaints received, but by investigations completed. In 2014/15, HMRC completed 2204 investigations. I refer the honourable member to the answer provided to her on 6 May 2014 at Hansard Column 110W for information on prior years.</p><br /><p>Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW, including people who work in legal advice, debt management, technical support and criminal investigation amongst others, but HMRC does not record the specific numbers of those staff involved beyond this. The budget allocated to HMRC by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is provided as an overall amount. I therefore refer the honourable member to the answers provided to her at UIN 16853 for budget details &amp; UIN 16938 for information on staffing.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 17624 17625 17626 17627 question first answered 08/12/2015 16:36:09 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

432192

registered interest
date	25/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many complaints from (a) employees and (b) third parties were received by HM Revenue and Customs' National Minimum Wage Risk Unit in each of the last six years.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	17624
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) receives it. Anyone who feels they have been underpaid NMW should contact the confidential Acas helpline on 0300 123 1100. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) review all complaints that are referred to them. However, some complaints may not lead to the commencement of an investigation. This might be due to incomplete information being provided, or the worker subsequently wishing to withdraw their complaint. Similarly, multiple complaints about the same employer would only be recorded under one investigation.</p><br /><p>In 2014/15, 2489 worker complaints and 691 pieces of third party information were referred to HMRC. However, I reiterate that not all complaints will lead to an investigation. In previous years, HMRC did not record statistics by complaints received, but by investigations completed. In 2014/15, HMRC completed 2204 investigations. I refer the honourable member to the answer provided to her on 6 May 2014 at Hansard Column 110W for information on prior years.</p><br /><p>Staff across HMRC contribute to enforcing NMW, including people who work in legal advice, debt management, technical support and criminal investigation amongst others, but HMRC does not record the specific numbers of those staff involved beyond this. The budget allocated to HMRC by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is provided as an overall amount. I therefore refer the honourable member to the answers provided to her at UIN 16853 for budget details &amp; UIN 16938 for information on staffing.</p><br /> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke grouped question UIN 17623 17625 17626 17627 question first answered 08/12/2015 16:36:09 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry