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date	26/01/2016
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	UK Trade and Investment: North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations contributed to UK Trade and Investment's Northern Powerhouse Investment Pitchbook; and who provided the assessment and shortlisting of developments included in that document.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	24237
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The following organisations contributed to the Northern Powerhouse pitchbook:</p><p> </p><p>Allied London; Carlton Power Limited; Cheshire East Council; Foresight Group; Halite; Leeds City Council; Liverpool Vision; London and Continental Railways; Manchester City Council; Manchester Place; MIDAS, Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency; Newcastle City Council; Peel Group; Scarborough Group; Sheffield City Council; Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council; and Warrington &amp; Co.</p><p> </p><p>Overall shortlisting was done by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) in consultation with HM Treasury.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 03/02/2016 17:28:13 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

447835

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date	26/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: Greater Manchester
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish the value for money review of the relocation of Oldham HM Revenue and Customs Office to Manchester city centre.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	24298
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>The HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) office at Phoenix House, Oldham was announced for closure in February 2008 as part of HMRC’s earlier Regional Review Programme, and was partially vacated in November 2009 with the majority of staff relocating to Manchester and finally closed in May 2014.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has not undertaken a separate value for money review on the closure of the office in Oldham. The Change Programme, of which the Regional Review Programme formed part, has been reviewed by the National Audit Office as part of its role to scrutinise public spending for Parliament to assess value for money. The NAO carried out a specific review on cost reduction within HMRC in 2013. The report can be found on the attached link. <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HMRC-reducing-cost-full-report.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/HMRC-reducing-cost-full-report.pdf</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 03/02/2016 15:58:47 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon

447892

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	E-ACT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to prevent the E-ACT Academy chain from dismissing community governors from its school governing bodies.
tabling member constituency	Oldham West and Royton
tabling member printed	Jim McMahon
uin	24297
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p>In a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), individual academies are all under the control of the trust board, as the legal entity. A trust is allowed to exercise its choice about whether and how to construct its local governing bodies for each academy. The composition of those boards and the range of functions delegated to any such boards, are all a matter for the board to determine. In all cases the board remains accountable for all of the academies in the MAT. We expect Government bodies to drive strong governance so that standards remain high. We trust these boards to decide on the most appropriate arrangements for their trust. They may choose to delegate duties to local governing bodies, but trustees maintain overall responsibility. E-ACT has reviewed its governance arrangements and is planning to change its regional and local governance structure.</p><p>The Secretary of State can intervene where a trust is in breach of its funding agreement due to a serious breakdown in governance.</p><p>Fewer, higher quality and more highly skilled boards overseeing groups of schools is central to the Government’s strategy for improving the quality of school governance. It is also the key to schools realising a wide range of other educational and financial benefits.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 03/02/2016 16:24:01 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4569 label Biography information for Jim McMahon