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458386

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date	08/03/2016
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	Research: EU Grants and Loans
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 research funding received by UK universities came from EU funding streams in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	30150
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>EU funding as a proportion of the total volume of research grants and contracts in all UK Higher Education Institutions rose from 8.3% in 2005/06 to 15.5% in 2013/14. The figures for the individual years (based on the Higher Education Institutions’ financial year of 1 August to 31 July) are as follows:</p><p>2005/2006</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £3,120,606,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £259,439,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 8.3%</p><p> </p><p>2006/2007</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £3,376,991,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £303,991,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 9.0%</p><p> </p><p>2007/2008</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £3,721,881,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £331,062,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 8.9%</p><p> </p><p>2008/2009</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £4,144,582,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £391,555,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 9.4%</p><p> </p><p>2009/2010</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £4,345,421,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £452,505,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 10.4%</p><p> </p><p>2010/2011</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £4,432,394,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £513,016,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 11.6%</p><p> </p><p>2011/2012</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £4,509,715,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £599,729,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 13.3%</p><p> </p><p>2012/2013</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £4,768,549,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £690,285,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 14.5%</p><p> </p><p>2013/2014</p><p>Total UK-wide research grants and contracts £5,083,991,000</p><p>EU-sourced UK-wide Grants and Contracts £789,201,000</p><p>Percentage EU-sourced Grants and Contracts 15.5%</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 22/04/2016 13:05:08 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

458388

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the data collected by the Government for use in the LMI for All programme includes the (a) school attended, (b) A-levels studied, (c) subject taken at university, (d) name of the university, (e) apprenticeship taken, where appropriate, (f) employment subject area, (g) salary earned and (h) name of employer for the individuals recorded; and what his policy is on continuing the provision of LMI for All.
tabling member constituency	South East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Lucy Frazer
uin	30154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>LMI for All does not contain information about individual people. It is an online open source data service which brings together public labour market information from organisations such as the Office for National Statistics and the Higher Education Statistics Agency.</p><p>It has been agreed that LMI for All will transfer to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills later this year.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/03/2016 17:22:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer

458389

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Labour Market: Information
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 potential merits of the collection and use of LMI for All data.
tabling member constituency	South East Cambridgeshire
tabling member printed	Lucy Frazer
uin	30155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has consulted the Devolved Administrations and other users of labour market information on future research priorities. This identified the importance of LMI for All data, and it has been agreed that LMI for All will transfer to BIS later this year.</p><p>The UK Commission for Employment and Skills tracks the use of the LMI for All service by such websites and applications. Current users of LMI for All include careers websites such as icould, SACU, RCU and Plotr. In addition, Active Informatics, and National Careers Service contractor Adviza are using LMI for All in their subscription based services offered to schools, colleges and universities. A number of government departments and agencies, including the Department for Work and Pensions, National Careers Service and Skills Development Scotland are also developing resources and tools that draw upon LMI for All. A report containing detailed case studies focusing on specific applications is currently under preparation and will be published this year.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/03/2016 17:21:58 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer

458391

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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 Investment: Treaties
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 the Government has taken to ensure that UK bilateral investment treaties meet the commitment in the Government's document, Good Business: Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, published in September 2013, to ensure that agreements facilitating investment overseas by UK or EU companies incorporate the business responsibility to respect human rights.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	30173
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK is signatory to over 90 bilateral investment treaties (BITs). The objective of the BITs is to provide protection to investors against actions from the host state (whether the UK or the other party) that comprise unfair or discriminatory treatment of investors rather than to facilitate investment. Fair, non-discriminatory and proportionate action taken by a host state, including to protect human rights, would not breach an investment protection and as such, it is unlikely that a BIT could be invoked by an investor in a way that is detrimental to human rights. The Government is not aware of any investor-state dispute settlement claims made by UK investors under existing BITs that have led directly to or contributed towards a negative impact on human rights.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/03/2016 16:44:12 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

458394

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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 Investment: Treaties
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the next review of the UK's bilateral investment treaties will take place.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	30174
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government currently has no plans to review the UK’s bilateral investment treaties.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 14:13:06 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

458395

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	EU Grants and Loans: Wales
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which projects in Wales have received European Commission funding in each of the last five years; and how much each such project received in each year.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Williams
uin	30220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>A list of all projects financed by the European Structural Funds in the 2007-13 period can be found on the Welsh Government website under ‘Funding’, ‘European funds in Wales’, ‘Previous European Structural Funds programmes’, ‘Approved project database 2007-2013’.</p><p>Implementation of the 2014-2020 European Structural Funds programmes is at an early stage. A list of projects to be financed in Wales by the Structural Funds for 2014-2020 can be found on the Welsh Government website under ‘Funding’, ‘European funds in Wales’, ‘European Structural Funds 2014-2020’, ‘Approved projects and ideas under development’.</p><p>The Seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 has provided grants to research and innovation projects across the EU. The European Commission’s figures show that the total value of grants awarded to organisations in Wales under this programme was €145,243,199 (up to and including 11 November 2015). For 2014-2020, the Horizon 2020 programme (the successor to the Seventh Framework Programme) has awarded grants with a total value of €39,932,431 to organisations in Wales (up to and including 23 February 2016).</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/03/2016 16:46:57 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1498 label Biography information for Mr Mark Williams

458396

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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
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 have been (a) charged with and (b) successfully prosecuted for non-payment of the minimum wage in each year from the minimum wage coming into force up to 2010.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	30267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Prosecution is reserved for the most serious cases. In most cases the Government applies civil sanctions, of up to £20,000 per worker, which are appropriate in the great majority of cases, and ensure a worker is paid back the arrears they are owed as quickly as possible. There is no guarantee that prosecution will result in arrears being paid back to the workers.</p><p>With the agreement of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, HMRC started considering prosecution for minimum wage offences from May 2006. The first prosecution for an offence under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 took place in 2007. Table 1 sets out the number of NMW prosecutions in each year since this date, all of which were successful.</p><p><strong>Table 1: Successful NMW prosecutions </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of NMW prosecutions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/04/2016 14:45:40 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

458400

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Sunday Trading: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the effect Sunday trading will have on small enterprises.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>In view of the will of the House, we are no longer proposing to give local authorities the ability to extend the Sunday trading hours of large shops.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/03/2016 15:29:21 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458401

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
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	Students: Disadvantaged
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 ensure that students from low income households are encouraged to study (a) medicine, (b) law and (c) banking.
tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
tabling member printed	Royston Smith
uin	30326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>We are taking significant steps to widen participation in higher education and ensure greater focus by institutions on employability.</p><p>From the 2015/16 academic year, we have removed the cap on student numbers, enabling more people than ever before to benefit from higher education our recent Green Paper <em>Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, CM 9141 </em>sets out additional steps the Government plans to take to increase the proportion of students from disadvantaged background entering higher education. In particular, the new Teaching Excellence Framework will encourage a stronger focus on employability in higher education institutions.</p><p>Since 2010 we have established a stronger framework with increased responsibility placed on higher education institutions to widen participation for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Director of Fair Access has agreed 183 Access Agreements for 2016/17 containing an estimated £745m to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds – up from £404m in 2009/10. In our recent guidance to the Director of Fair Access, published on February 11<sup>th </sup>2016, we said that we wanted the Director to encourage institutions to undertake work to improve access to the professions for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Director has reflected this steer in his own guidance to institutions about their access agreements for 2017/18.</p><p>In the field of medicine, the Medical Schools Council initiated the “Selecting for Excellence” project, supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, to look at widening participation issues. A report was launched in December 2014 which set out a range of recommendations for the sector to take forward aimed at supporting access to medical schools.</p><p>The Key Information Set provides comparable course level information (including information on employment outcomes and student satisfaction ratings) and so helps young people choose the right course for them. As a result of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, information on the labour market outcomes of graduates will be further improved when HMRC employment and earnings data are made available following development and testing.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/03/2016 17:19:42 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4478 label Biography information for Royston Smith

458407

registered interest
date	08/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Civil Servants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of his Department's (a) Senior Civil Servants and (b) core policy civil servants are based in London.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	30305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>At 29 February 2016, the proportion of Senior Civil Servants in my Department that were based in London was 99%. The proportion of core policy civil servants in my Department based in London is not available because this information is not derivable from Cabinet Office systems.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2016 10:17:02 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh