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457705

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Local Safeguarding Children Boards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which Local Safeguarding Children's Boards have requested that a CPS representative join its board to date; and (a) how many and (b) which of those applications have been accepted.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	29863
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>Local authorities are responsible for establishing Local Safeguarding Children Boards in their area, and there are statutory requirements regarding membership.</p><p>Information about the composition of LSCBs is set out in the 2004 Children Act and repeated in <em>Working Together to Safeguarding Children 2015</em>.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 11/03/2016 17:29:56 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

457706

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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	Overseas Trade
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of his Department's 2015-16 budget is allocated to (a) creating and (b) accessing new markets for trade and growth.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	29858
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Increasing trade and growth through exports, to all overseas markets, is a key factor in the Government’s long-term economic plan. Government departments are working together to support UK businesses looking to take advantage of overseas opportunities and to create a strong business environment that allows them to flourish both at home and overseas. A key part of this work is to identify export opportunities, many of which are based around the needs of new high-growth and emerging markets.</p><p> </p><p>UK Trade &amp; Investment (UKTI) is at the heart of this work and the budget allocation for this activity will be set out in the UKTI Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/03/2016 17:47:16 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

457707

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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	Home Care Services: Minimum Wage
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 2 March 2016 to Question 28163, and with reference to the Answer of 10 June 2013 to Question 158962, whether his Department has stopped collecting data on National Minimum Wage complaints in the care sector broken down by domiciliary and residential care; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	29835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Information on the number of NMW enquiries made to the Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH) and Acas Helpline for the ‘domiciliary care’ and ‘residential care’ sectors has not been collected at that level of disaggregation.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/03/2016 16:51:28 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

457708

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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	Infrastructure: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which infrastructure projects in Scotland have received European Commission funding in each of the last five years; and how much each project received in each year.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	29798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The Scottish Government, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), funded 148 infrastructure projects during the 2007-2013 period totalling in excess of £128m. Lists of all projects funded under both the Highlands and Islands, and the Lowlands and Uplands ERDF programmes can be found on the Scottish Government website.</p><p>Scotland’s infrastructure continues to benefit through the following projects:</p><ul><li>Green Infrastructure – to date £8.25m to improve the quality, accessibility and quantity of green infrastructure in Scotland's major towns and cities. Information can be found on the Scottish Government website under ‘Green Infrastructure’;</li><li>Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme – to date £32.9m to grow Scotland's low-carbon economy, promote low-carbon research and innovation, and encourage investment in low-carbon technology. Information can be found on the Scottish Government website at ‘Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme’;</li><li>Low Carbon Travel and Transport – to date £13.9m to increase low-carbon transport and travel in Scotland including increased use of public transport, low-energy vehicles, a national smart ticketing scheme and reliable low-carbon refuelling services. Information can be found on the Transport Scotland website under ‘Environment’;</li><li>Resource Efficient Circular Economy – to date £30.7m to increase the resource efficiency of Scottish SMEs and further develop and strengthen Scotland's circular economy. Information can be found on the Zero Waste Scotland website under ‘Circular economy investment fund and service’.</li></ul><p>Information on transport projects funded by the European Commission under the TEN-T programme and the Connecting Europe Facility can be found at the Innovation and Networks Agency website. Scotland is involved in the Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment project led by the Department for Transport (Arc Atlantique) which is listed there.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/03/2016 15:48:03 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

457709

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
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	Minimum Wage: Enforcement
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 2 March 2016 to Question 28094, on minimum wage: enforcement, if he will provide details of the assurance process used to make sure that employers who have been found to be non-compliant with the national minimum wage have fully self-corrected their pay system and paid all workers any national minimum wage arrears that they are owed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	29823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The assurance process involves Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) performing a sample check that arrears have been paid to workers under self-correction. Workers are selected and contacted by telephone and correspondence to confirm that they have received the arrears they are owed, and the amount that the employer has reported. If HMRC do not receive a self-correction report from the employer they will remind the company and then follow up with an unannounced visit, where appropriate. If HMRC has concerns following the above processes then an investigation is re-opened.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/03/2016 15:11:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

457710

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Facebook
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on advertisements using Facebook in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	29838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Cabinet Office did not spend anything in 2013/14 on Facebook advertising. In 2014/15 there was a total of £17,511.16 spent by Cabinet Office on Facebook advertising. Fully auditable figures are not available for the 2015/16. All figures include VAT.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/03/2016 14:07:23 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

457711

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve (a) productivity across the Civil Service and (b) efficient use of office space.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	29859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>Improving the efficiency and productivity of the public sector is central to the work of the Cabinet Office. By 2014/15 the Government had saved £18.6 billion through efficiency and reform, and tackling fraud, error and uncollected debt (against a 2009/10 baseline).</p><p>The Government Hubs programme will reduce the government office estate from around 800 buildings to around 200 by 2023 and generate savings of over £2bn over ten years.</p><p>This is being supported by a smart working revolution to transform how and where civil servants work. In line with what many private sector organisations have achieved, we expect this to increase productivity, reduce costs, improve wellbeing, and contribute to wider objectives such as localism, sustainability, and reducing pressure on the transport system.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/03/2016 15:29:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

457712

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Google
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department spent on advertisements with Google in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	29874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>Cabinet Office spent £107,896.25 on Google advertising in 2013/14. Cabinet Office did not spend anything on Google advertising in 2014/15. Fully auditable figures are not yet available for 2015/16. All figures include VAT.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/03/2016 14:07:44 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

457713

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Occupied Territories
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the oral contribution of Lord Bridges of Headley, of 25 February 2016, Official Report, column 396, on public bodies: Israel, what the Government's policy is on whether the Occupied Palestinian Territories are a territory of Israel under the definition of the World Trade Organisaiton.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	29867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The World Trade Organisation does not define the territory of its members. The UK does not recognise Israeli sovereignty over the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. We therefore do not consider the Occupied Palestinian Territories to be part of Israel.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 09/03/2016 17:32:36 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter

457714

registered interest
date	04/03/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Corporation Tax: Personal Injury
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he made of the potential effect on corporation tax receipts of changes to personal injury law and procedure prior to making his announcement of such changes in the 2015 Autumn Statement; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	29875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>The Ministry of Justice will launch a public consultation in due course on the details of the policy. This will be accompanied by an impact assessment.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 09/03/2016 11:21:00 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter