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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

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

450668

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, with how many debt collection agencies his Department has a contract.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25973
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p>The core Department has no direct contracts with debt collection agencies.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:38:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450671

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, what his Department's policy is on the use of debt collection agencies to collect outstanding payments.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25974
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The core Department’s policy is governed by HM Treasury’s ‘Managing Public Money’ guidance. This sets out that public sector organisations should always pursue recovery of debts. In practice there will be both practical and legal limits to how cases should be handled. So each case should be dealt with on its merits. Within BIS, the use of a debt collection agency would only be considered after all other methods of recovery had failed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:43:26 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands

450672

registered interest
date	04/02/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Employment Schemes: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent steps his Department has taken to provide further support for people with mental health problems in returning to work.
tabling member constituency	East Antrim
tabling member printed	Sammy Wilson
uin	25942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Work and Pensions lead on support for people with mental health problems in getting back to work. Over the next three years, we are investing over £40 million to develop the evidence base on what works in supporting those with mental health conditions get back to work/return to work through a series of trials</p><p> </p><p>Further support is available through the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service. Last year, Access to Work supported 1630 people who declared a Mental Health condition as their Primary Medical Condition – a 15% increase on 2013/14 and a record number for the programme</p><p> </p><p>Our wider employment programmes provide those with mental health conditions with the appropriate support to find work. Work Choice is an employment programme is specifically for those with a disability or health condition. Up to September 2015, of the 14,290 starters who declared either a Severe or Mild to Moderate Mental Health condition as their Primary Disability, 6,650 (over 46%) have achieved a job outcome.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(BIS)</strong> Support is not restricted to employees, as the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is evaluating the impact of short, part-time adult education courses on people with mild to moderate mental health problems.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/02/2016 13:54:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1593 label Biography information for Sammy Wilson

450674

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 his Department regulates the activities of debt collection agencies during the period that they are under contract with his Department.
tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
tabling member printed	Gavin Newlands
uin	25950
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Should any direct contracts be let with debt recovery agencies, the scope and extent of any activity would be agreed as part of the contract negotiation and a process of routine monitoring put in place.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/02/2016 16:40:14 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4420 label Biography information for Gavin Newlands