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155715

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Space Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if the Government will support the creation of a UK space agency.
tabling member constituency	Beckenham
tabling member printed	Bob Stewart
uin	214589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The UK Space Agency was created in April 2011 as one of the recommendations of the 2010 Space Innovation and Growth Strategy. The Agency's positive impact on the space sector's growth was welcomed by the House of Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2013.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 24/11/2014 11:07:15 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3919 label Biography information for Bob Stewart

155718

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Business: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps his Department is taking to support businesses in Stafford constituency.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	214629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 22 October 2014 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2014-10-13/210227/" target="_blank">210227</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The primary support for business in Stafford and elsewhere is our long term economic plan which is delivering jobs, growth and low inflation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>16 start up loans have been made available in Stafford and 1,000 Apprenticeships in the past year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Hon. Friend may also wish to note that in the Stafford constituency there is one Round 1 Regional Growth Fund project with a grant of £4 million leveraging £57 million of private sector investment and creating or safeguarding 1,600 jobs. The grant will help the company undertake research and development for the creation of High Voltage Direct Current power transmission products, including the installation of equipment at a new engineering centre of excellence owned and run by the company in Stafford. It will create 200 new jobs and safeguard 1,400 existing jobs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Businesses can access support via two local programmes that cover the Stafford constituency. These are run by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce. In addition to the above there are a number of national Regional Growth Fund programmes which companies in Stafford can apply to.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Stoke and Staffordshire LEP area is one of 15 Wave 2 Cities who are receiving £6.4m Government funding to establish growth hubs in 2014-15, from a £32m Regional Growth Fund programme managed by Lancaster University which also includes local business support. Growth hubs are intended to raise awareness and take up of business support, impact of business support, simplify the local business support landscape, eliminate duplication and improve the impact of business support, helping to increase private sector growth.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 14:46:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155720

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Business: Stafford
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 businesses in Stafford constituency have received export support from UK Trade & Investment in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	214630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/11/2014 answer text <p>UK Trade and Investment supported 47,960 companies in 2013/14 financial year; 31,880 in 2012/13; 26,640 in 2011/12 and 24,550 in 2010/11. However, breakdowns of the data at the constituency level are not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 26/11/2014 14:32:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155721

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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	Business: Stafford
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 businesses the Manufacturing Advisory Service has assisted in Stafford constituency since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	214631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>The Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) has assisted 22 companies in Stafford since 1 January 2012 when the new national MAS service was launched. Businesses have forecast this could help create 65 jobs and over £2.75 million Gross Value Added. Figures are not available for the regional MAS delivered by the former Regional Development Agencies prior to January 2012.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/11/2014 15:06:51 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155724

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
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, how many new apprenticeships have begun in (a) England and (b) Brighton, Kemptown constituency in the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	214750
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on apprenticeship starts by geography is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364255/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364255/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xls</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/11/2014 11:26:31 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

155728

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Self-employed: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people in Stafford constituency are registered self-employed.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	214616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 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 214618 question first answered 20/11/2014 13:14:45 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 214618 & 214616 ONS 402 & 403.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Self-Employed
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155729

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment: Stafford
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the net change in the number of private sector jobs in Stafford constituency was in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stafford
tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
uin	214618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 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 214616 question first answered 20/11/2014 13:14:46 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 214618 & 214616 ONS 402 & 403.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Self-Employed
tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

155731

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Young People
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) 16, (b) 17 and (c) 18 year olds likely to be resident in England in each of the next 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Wentworth and Dearne
tabling member printed	John Healey
uin	214417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 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 24/11/2014 17:33:00 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 214417 ONS 404.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - 17 and 18 year Old Resident
tabling member	400 label Biography information for John Healey

155732

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had on changes to local authority commissioning processes as a consequence of the UK's adoption of the 2014 EU Procurement Directives.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	214453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>During the negotiations on the Directives, and subsequently during the transposition process, we have held discussions with the Local Government Association. Local authorities have also received face-to-face training on the new rules, and have responded to the Government’s recent public consultation on the draft regulations implementing the Directives.</p><p>The new Directives will allow local authorities to procure faster, with less red tape.</p><p>It is up to individual contracting authorities to reflect the 2014 EU Procurement Directives in their own processes and procedures.</p><p>The EU Public Procurement Directive (2014) sets out the exemptions and exclusions that apply. It is up to individual contracting authorities to decide whether or not to avail themselves of the exemptions for any particular procurement.</p><p>The new EU Procurement Directives support UK Government priorities of economic growth and deficit reduction by making the public procurement process faster, less costly, and more effective for business and procurers alike.</p><p>Throughout the negotiations last year, the UK Government was determined to remove outdated and superfluous constraints and introduce many new reforms to streamline and modernise public procurement.</p><p>The Regulations transposing the new Directive will also implement recommendations made by Lord Young of Graffham, which will ensure a simple and consistent approach to procurement across all public sector authorities so that small businesses and voluntary sector businesses can gain better and more direct access to the public sector market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 214454 214455 question first answered 24/11/2014 17:32:37 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

155733

registered interest
date	17/11/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had on public services being granted exemptions from the 2014 EU Procurement Directives.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	214454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>During the negotiations on the Directives, and subsequently during the transposition process, we have held discussions with the Local Government Association. Local authorities have also received face-to-face training on the new rules, and have responded to the Government’s recent public consultation on the draft regulations implementing the Directives.</p><p>The new Directives will allow local authorities to procure faster, with less red tape.</p><p>It is up to individual contracting authorities to reflect the 2014 EU Procurement Directives in their own processes and procedures.</p><p>The EU Public Procurement Directive (2014) sets out the exemptions and exclusions that apply. It is up to individual contracting authorities to decide whether or not to avail themselves of the exemptions for any particular procurement.</p><p>The new EU Procurement Directives support UK Government priorities of economic growth and deficit reduction by making the public procurement process faster, less costly, and more effective for business and procurers alike.</p><p>Throughout the negotiations last year, the UK Government was determined to remove outdated and superfluous constraints and introduce many new reforms to streamline and modernise public procurement.</p><p>The Regulations transposing the new Directive will also implement recommendations made by Lord Young of Graffham, which will ensure a simple and consistent approach to procurement across all public sector authorities so that small businesses and voluntary sector businesses can gain better and more direct access to the public sector market.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 214453 214455 question first answered 24/11/2014 17:32:38 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe