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223835

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Arms Trade: Ukraine
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 export licences have been issued to UK companies selling military equipment to the Ukrainian armed forces in the last two years.
tabling member constituency	Lagan Valley
tabling member printed	Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson
uin	225523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>Seven licences have been granted to UK companies for military-rated items in the last two years where the end-user was named as the armed forces, national guard or MOD of Ukraine.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further three licences have been granted for supply of components or technology to end users, for the development or production of goods, for ultimate supply to the armed forces/national guard/MOD of Ukraine.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 03/03/2015 11:11:09 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	650 label Biography information for Sir Jeffrey M Donaldson

223836

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Wales working on zero hours contracts in February (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
uin	225532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 225533 225534 225632 question first answered 04/03/2015 15:52:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 225532, 225533, 225534, 225632 ONS 72, 73, 74, 75.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Zero Hour Contracts
tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

223837

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of women in Wales working on zero hours contracts in February (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
uin	225533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 225532 225534 225632 question first answered 04/03/2015 15:52:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 225532, 225533, 225534, 225632 ONS 72, 73, 74, 75.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Zero Hour Contracts
tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

223838

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Clwyd
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of people in Clwyd South constituency working on zero hours contracts in February (a) 2014 and (b) 2015.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
uin	225534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 225532 225533 225632 question first answered 04/03/2015 15:52:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 225532, 225533, 225534, 225632 ONS 72, 73, 74, 75.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Zero Hour Contracts
tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

223839

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	New Businesses: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what support his Department is providing to coalfield communities to help develop new businesses; and what estimate he has made of the number of jobs which will be created as a result of such initiatives.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	225584
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Communities and Local Government has funded the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, Coalfields Enterprise and Growth Funds and the Homes and Communities Agency’s coalfield projects. Based on information provided by these sources, 38 businesses have been developed and over 25,000 jobs have been created or safeguarded.</p><p>The Coalfields Regeneration Trust has a history of supporting communities through the provision of training and health programmes, community assets, and small grants. Going forward, they have been allowed to invest in property assets to generate income and growth. They will also be providing small start-up loans and supporting people to make the most of employment opportunities.</p><p>We have created Enterprise Zones in former a number of former coalfield areas – in Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham, Kent and the Tees Valley – all helping to create growth in former Coalfield communities. For example, the Sheffield City Region Enterprise Zone aims to create 14,000 jobs by 2020 and has sites on former collieries. The Orgreave colliery and coking plant is now transformed into a centre for advanced manufacturing and Markham Vale is benefitting from capital grant funding to develop the successful business park. The Government has invested nearly £12 million into local infrastructure - £1.8 million investment in Sheffield Business Park Phase 2 and £10 million in the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Rotherham.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 03/03/2015 17:03:59 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

223841

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
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 employers were fined for not paying their employees the national minimum wage in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Mr Ian Davidson
uin	225582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes the enforcement of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) very seriously and has increased the financial penalty percentage from 50% to 100% of the unpaid wages owed to workers, and the maximum penalty from £5,000 to £20,000. These new limits are now in force where arrears are identified in pay reference periods on or after 7 March 2014. The Government will also bring in primary legislation as soon as possible so that the maximum £20,000 penalty can apply to each underpaid worker.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I refer the honourable member to the answer provided at UIN 205613 for details of penalties issued.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 04/03/2015 13:37:05 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	611 label Biography information for Mr Ian Davidson

223842

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Higher Education: Bradford
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 students from Bradford were the first to go to university from their family in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	225608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).</p><p>The Table shows the proportion of students from Bradford Local Authority area and the UK overall who started a full-time first degree course at a UK Higher Education Institution in the academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 and who declared that their parents did not hold a higher education qualification. Comparable information is not available for the earlier years.</p><p>Information for the 2014/15 academic year will become available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full-time first degree entrants domiciled in Bradford Local Authority and the UK whose parents do not hold a higher education qualification</strong></p><p>UK Higher Education Institutions</p><p>Academic Years 2008/09 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Bradford</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>UK Overall</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic Year</p></td><td><p>Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification</p></td><td><p>Count of respondents</p></td><td><p>Count of students where information is unknown</p></td><td><p>Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification</p></td><td><p>Count of respondents</p></td><td><p>Count of students where information is unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>2,040</p></td><td><p>550</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>270,345</p></td><td><p>91,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>2,280</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>281,410</p></td><td><p>95,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>2,225</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>280,600</p></td><td><p>90,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>2,445</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>303,690</p></td><td><p>90,895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td><td><p>2,270</p></td><td><p>535</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td><td><p>275,430</p></td><td><p>81,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td><td><p>2,745</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>323,850</p></td><td><p>63,110</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.</p><p> </p><p>(1) Domicile refers to a student’s permanent or home address prior to entering their course.</p><p>(2) More information on how Parental HE is measured is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&amp;task=show_file&amp;mnl=14051&amp;href=a%5e_%5ePARED.html" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&amp;task=show_file&amp;mnl=14051&amp;href=a^_^PARED.html</a></p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 20/03/2015 10:40:29 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

223843

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Zero Hours Contracts: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of women who are on zero hours contracts.
tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
tabling member printed	Susan Elan Jones
uin	225632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson grouped question UIN 225532 225533 225534 question first answered 04/03/2015 15:52:51 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 225532, 225533, 225534, 225632 ONS 72, 73, 74, 75.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Zero Hour Contracts
tabling member	3956 label Biography information for Susan Elan Jones

223844

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Science: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of (a) men and (b) women working in the (i) technology and (ii) engineering sector.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	225669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 03/03/2015 16:35:11 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 225669 ONS 71.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - People in Engineering
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

223845

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Apprentices
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 figure 31 of the Apprenticeship Pay Survey 2014, published in December 2014, what proportion of apprentices aged 25 or older were working for their employer before starting their apprenticeship in each academic year since 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2015 answer text <p>The 2014 Apprenticeship Pay Survey is not directly comparable to earlier Apprenticeship Pay Surveys (in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2012) due to substantial changes in both coverage and questionnaire design.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>However, the 2014 Apprenticeship Evaluation: Learner Survey[1] shows that, of those apprentices aged 25+ who completed or were undertaking a Level 2 or Level 3 apprenticeship between August 2012 and March 2013, 91% worked for their employer before starting their apprenticeship. The proportion is unchanged compared with the previous year[2].</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeships-evaluation-learner-survey-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeships-evaluation-learner-survey-2014</a></p><p>[2] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-survey-learners" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-survey-learners</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/03/2015 14:13:29 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna