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450658

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Unpaid Work: Social Mobility
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to inform businesses about the effect that (a) paid and (b) unpaid internships have on social mobility.
tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
uin	25863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government believes in fair wages for fair work and opportunity for all. When an intern meets the legal definition of a worker they must be paid at least the National Minimum Wage. We actively promote understanding of the importance of pay for interns through our Social Mobility Business Compact, which secures agreement from business to take measures to improve social mobility. In addition, the Common Best Practice Code for High Quality Internships secures collective commitment from leading employers to ensure internships are fairly paid. These initiatives help to ensure employers are fully aware of the types of standards and expectations that need to be in place in the intern-employer relationship.</p><p>Separately, we have made it simpler to name and shame employers that do not comply with national minimum wage regulations and complaints from interns are now fast-tracked by HMRC.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 12/02/2016 14:21:05 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

450659

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of businesses and other organisations in (a) Wiltshire and (b) the UK that will be required to pay the apprenticeship levy.
tabling member constituency	South West Wiltshire
tabling member printed	Dr Andrew Murrison
uin	25885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>The apprenticeship levy will apply across the UK and will be collected from employers on a UK wide basis. An allowance of £15,000 means those with a paybill exceeding £3million will have to pay the levy.</p><p> </p><p>Regional level estimates of those likely to pay the Apprenticeship Levy is not available.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 12/02/2016 14:34:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison

450660

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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 Commission for Employment and Skills: Finance
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 commissioned an independent evaluation of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills before deciding to withdraw funding from it; and if so, if he will publish it.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	25899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>No independent evaluation of UKCES was commissioned. The decision by Whitehall Departments to withdraw funding from UKCES during 2016-17 was taken as part of the spending review given the need to make savings in non-participation budgets to allow the core adult skills participation budgets to be protected in cash terms.</p><p> </p><p>The decision had regard to the range of priorities needing to be funded from non-participation budgets. BIS is working with UKCES and the users of its services, including the Devolved Administrations, to manage the implications of this decision.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/02/2016 17:20:56 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

450661

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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 Commission for Employment and Skills: Finance
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 consulted the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland before deciding to withdraw funding from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	25900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The decision by Whitehall Departments to withdraw funding from the UKCES during 2016-17 was taken as part of the spending review given the need to make savings in non-participation budgets to allow the core adult skills participation budgets to be protected in cash terms.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has subsequently been working with the Devolved Administrations on the future arrangements for working together on common issues within the context of our devolved skills systems.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/02/2016 17:19:29 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

450662

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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 Commission for Employment and Skills: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how he plans to secure comprehensive analyses of skills shortages in the UK economy after funding is withdrawn from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	25901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>In the context of needing to make savings in non-participation budgets to allow the core adult skills participation budgets to be protected in cash terms, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has consulted the Devolved Administrations and other users of labour market information on future research priorities.</p><p> </p><p>These discussions have identified the significance of the Employer Skills Survey, the Employer Perspectives Survey and the LMI (Labour Market Information) for All Portal. We are considering how these can best be delivered in future and will announce future arrangements as soon as final decisions are made.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/02/2016 17:18:02 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

450663

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Institute for Apprenticeships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons the responsibilities planned for the proposed Institute for Apprenticeships could not have been undertaken by the existing UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	25902
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The role of the Institute for Apprenticeships (IFA) will be very different to the current role and remit of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).</p><p> </p><p>The IFA must be able to make decisions independently of Ministers and hold direct operational responsibility rather than act in an advisory capacity.</p><p> </p><p>This will require different governance arrangements, with a small Board led primarily by employers and business leaders to steer the processes and decisions that are made.</p><p>The IFA will assume functions that Government has so far undertaken in relation to apprenticeship standards and assessment plans and will operate in the context of achieving three million starts by 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/02/2016 17:16:05 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

450664

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Post Offices: Closures
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 his Department has made of the effect on benefit and tax credit demand from workers who are Royal Mail employees at franchises of former post offices; and what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost of that demand to the public purse.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	25919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>Royal Mail and Post Office Limited are separate independent businesses. Post Office Limited runs and manages its directly managed Crown post offices. Employees of these offices are employees of Post Office Limited. Changes to the Crown network are an operational matter for Post Office.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 10/02/2016 16:33:04 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

450665

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Exports
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 potential merits of the introduction of a mentoring scheme for businesses who wish to export to a country or region that partners such businesses with other businesses that export to that country or region.
tabling member constituency	The Cotswolds
tabling member printed	Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
uin	25922
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>Lord Maude made a <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Lords/2016-01-19/HLWS466/" target="_blank">statement</a> to the House of Lords on Tuesday 19 January on the Government’s strategy to support trade. The new operating model set out in the statement will see UK Trade &amp; Investment start to pilot schemes that provide direct support to businesses over the coming months.</p><p> </p><p>There are no plans to pilot a mentoring scheme. Instead, UKTI will continue to identify opportunities to connect UK businesses via the <a href="http://www.mentorsme.co.uk/about/articles/about-mentorsme" target="_blank">mentorsme network</a>, Britain’s first online gateway for small and medium sized enterprises looking for mentoring services. This service offers businesses free access to a list of quality-assured business mentoring organisations across Britain.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/02/2016 15:41:20 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	249 label Biography information for Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

450666

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Post Offices: Closures
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 Post Office Crown branches have closed or merged since the end of the last formal Crown Transformation Programme.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	25932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2016 answer text <p>Provision of its Crown branches is the operational responsibility of Post Office Limited.</p><p> </p><p>I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to the hon Member on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 12/02/2016 14:35:51 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

450667

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Debt Collection
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 his Department has spent on debt collection agencies in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The core Department has spent £0 on debt collection agencies in the last seven years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:41:45 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands