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522940

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what (a) representations he has received from and (b) meetings his Department has had with companies based in the British Overseas Territories on the future of the Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	39278
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>A Government consultation seeking views on options to move Land Registry operations to the private sector closed on 26 May. We have received views from a large number of businesses and individuals. My department is analysing these responses and the Government will issue a response in due course. No decision has been taken on the future of Land Registry and, as such, no bids have been received.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2016 14:39:41 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

522941

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 the letter he received from the hon. Member of Tottenham of 2 June 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the privatisation of the Land Registry on the amount of money related to corruption entering the UK property market.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	39280
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>A Government consultation seeking views on options to move Land Registry operations to the private sector closed on 26 May. My department is analysing these responses and the Government will issue a response in due course. Anti-fraud and corruption protections are amongst the factors being considered as the Government is committed to tackling corruption and increasing corporate transparency. No decision has been taken on the future of Land Registry.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2016 14:40:08 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

522942

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 the letter he received from the hon. Member of Tottenham of 2 June 2016, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the privatisation of the Land Registry on transparency in the UK property market (a) in general and (b) with regards to public records of the corporate and beneficial ownership of properties owned by offshore companies.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	39281
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>A Government consultation seeking views on options to move Land Registry operations to the private sector closed on 26 May. My department is analysing these responses and the Government will issue a response in due course. Transparency protections are amongst the factors being considered. No decision has been taken on the future of Land Registry.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2016 14:38:58 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

522943

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 he plans to take to ensure that Land Registry service fees do not increase in the event of the privatisation of the Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	39282
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>A Government consultation seeking views on options to move Land Registry operations to the private sector closed on 26 May. In that consultation, the Government set out its preference for a contract-based privatisation model, under which statutory fees would still be prescribed in fee orders made by the Secretary of State and set before Parliament. My department is analysing the responses to the consultation, including on the issue of fees, and the Government will issue a response in due course. No decision has been taken on the future of Land Registry.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2016 14:38:22 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

522944

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 he plans to take to ensure that information held by the Land Registry that is subject to Freedom of Information requests will continue to be covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the event of the privatisation of the Land Registry.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	39283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>A Government consultation seeking views on options to move Land Registry operations to the private sector closed on 26 May. My department is analysing these responses and the Government will issue a response in due course. Transparency protections are amongst the factors being considered. No decision has been taken on the future of Land Registry.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 09/06/2016 14:37:48 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

522951

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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: Sheffield
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 of his Department's staff based at St Paul's Place, Sheffield, have a length of tenure of (a) under one year, (b) between one and five years, (c) between five and 10 years and (d) over 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39340
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The length of service, within the Civil Service, of employees of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) based at St Paul's Place Sheffield, is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Employees</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Less than 1 year</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1-5 years</p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>5-10 years</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Over 10 Years</p></td><td><p>187</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This data is based on all people based in Sheffield as at 31 May 2016 and includes BIS employees and those currently on loan to BIS from other government departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/06/2016 14:04:34 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

522952

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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: Reorganisation
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 Written Statement of 26 May 2016, on BIS consultation, HCWS30, how much vacant office space there currently is at the 1 Victoria Street offices.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills actively manages occupancy of its office estate to ensure that offices are used effectively, and commensurate with health and safety and other statutory requirements. Given the recent Voluntary Exit Scheme, and our plans to re-organise the building to increase capacity, the Department estimates that additional London staff could be accommodated in 1 Victoria Street over the next year and a half. Our plan to reduce to 1,500 policy posts overall by 2020 will also create some additional capacity.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/06/2016 14:06:51 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

522959

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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: Reorganisation
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 Written Statement of 26 May 2016, on BIS consultation, HCWS30, what proportion of his Department's £350 million projected savings by 2020 he expects to be achieved as a result of the decision to centralise policy functions in London.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	39339
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>Delivering the scale of change required to reduce our operating expenditure by £350m requires the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to fundamentally transform the way it delivers services, works with partners, and makes policy. To help deliver this substantial saving we will be reducing our locations from around 80 sites to 7 business centres, one of which will be the combined policy centre and headquarters in London. The decision to establish this policy centre forms part of this much larger reform programme. The Department estimates that establishing a policy centre will generate savings of at least £7.5m per year by 2019-20, and it will also better enable the Department to operate a more flexible, agile and easily re-deployable policy function which will continue to deliver BIS’ priorities as it reduces in size over the course of the Parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/06/2016 15:00:51 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

522961

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Manufacturing Industries: Employment
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 he is taking to attract more manufacturing jobs to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
tabling member printed	David Simpson
uin	39365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2016 answer text <p>The Government is creating a highly competitive business environment that makes the UK an attractive location for new manufacturing investment and drives strong productivity growth and export success. We have invested £300m over five years in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies that will be crucial to the future of manufacturing in the UK.</p><p>UK Trade and Investment works to attract foreign manufacturing companies to set up and grow in the UK. The recently published EY report (EY’s Attractiveness Survey 2016, UK) put the UK ahead of Germany for a second year running in terms of attracting manufacturing related foreign direct investment.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/06/2016 15:57:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

522974

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	Department for Work and Pensions: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green received a severance package following his resignation from the post of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	39306
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2016 answer text <p>The Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 (Section 4 of Chapter 5) governs Ministerial severance payments. The legislation outlines the criteria upon which severance payments are made and how the amount is calculated.</p><p> </p><p>The relevant section of the legislation can be found at: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/5/section/4" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/5/section/4</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/06/2016 12:32:57 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron