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434210

registered interest
date	04/12/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what criteria she plans to include in the national funding formula for schools; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	18789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The government is committed to delivering our manifesto pledge to make school funding fairer. It was announced at the Spending Review that we intend to introduce a National Funding Formula for schools, high needs and early years in 2017. We will set out our detailed plans for a National Funding Formula, including the criteria to be included in the formula for schools, in the New Year and will consult on our proposals extensively.</p><br /><br /> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 08/12/2015 14:35:37 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

433903

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Students: 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 steps he is taking to assist poorer students with the repayment of their student loans.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	18602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Student loan repayments are income contingent and deductions are taken at 9% of income over the applicable repayment threshold.</p><p>The repayment threshold affords protection to lower earning borrowers. Borrowers make no repayment if their income remains or falls below the threshold.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2015 15:19:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

433909

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	New Businesses: Government Assistance
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) information, (b) financial support and (c) other support his Department provides to employed people looking to set up their own business.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	18751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>We are helping everyone, including employed people, who want to set up and start their own business. The Business Support Helpline and the Business Finance and Support Finder tool on the GOV.UK website help people get simple straight forward advice and start up finance. At a local level we are investing in 39 Growth Hubs around the country which join up local business support to make it easier for people who want to find advice and information on how to start a business. The Start-Up Loans programme has also provided over 33,500 loans worth over £180 million pounds to people who want to start their own business.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/12/2015 14:37:05 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

433910

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Welsh Language
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 the forms on (a) his Department's website and (b) the website of UK Trade and Investment is available in Welsh.
tabling member constituency	Llanelli
tabling member printed	Nia Griffith
uin	18757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government is fully committed to the Welsh language and fully committed to providing Government services in the Welsh language where there is demand.</p><br /><p>The Wales Office works closely with Government Digital Service to ensure that the Welsh language content on GOV.UK is underpinned by high quality user research that provides a simpler, clearer and faster service for users.</p><br /><p>On GOV.UK you can carry out many actions in Welsh that are important to people in their day to day life, such as apply for car tax, register to vote, book driving theory and practical tests, access state pension details online and apply for a Blue Badge.</p><br /><p>It also gives government departments and other organisations which publish material on GOV.UK the ability to publish Welsh-language content in line with the requirements of their individual Welsh Language Schemes.</p><br /><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has published 346 forms on GOV.UK as part of an application process or to respond to consultations. However, not all of these will cover departmental policies and schemes that are applicable to Wales. Approximately 4% of the forms are available in Welsh.</p><br /><p>In the case of UK Trade &amp; Investment (UKTI), as trade and investment is devolved to Wales, Welsh language support for business is available at the Welsh Government’s website at <a href="https://business.wales.gov.uk/cy" target="_blank">https://business.wales.gov.uk/cy</a></p><br /><p>UKTI has aimed to be inclusive by advertising in Welsh as part of its Exporting is GREAT campaign. Though none of UKTI’s forms are in Welsh, contact forms from organisations with a Welsh postcode are directed to Business Wales. Contact forms for investors are not in Welsh but the audience is overseas businesses based outside the UK.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 08/12/2015 16:28:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1541 label Biography information for Dame Nia Griffith

433911

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Long Term Unemployed People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 26 November 2015 to Question 17301, what proportion of (a) males aged 16 to 24, (b) males aged 16 to 18, (c) males aged 19-20, (d) males aged 21-22, (e) males aged 23-24, (f) women aged 16 to 18, (g) women aged 19-20, (h) women aged 21-22 and (i) women aged 23 to 34 had been unemployed for more than 12 months on the latest date for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	18746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 08/12/2015 14:47:48 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name 18746 FINAL.pdf title UKSA Letter to Member - Unemployment
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

433912

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Extended Ministerial Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2015 to Question 8466, whether any further Departments have established or are planning to establish an Extended Ministerial office.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	18656
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>An Extended Ministerial Office has been approved in the Scotland Office.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/12/2015 14:45:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

433913

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many employers applied to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to have their employees' statutory maternity pay paid in advance in each of the last five financial years; what proportion of those applications were (a) accepted and (b) rejected; and what average time was taken by HMRC to make decisions on those applications.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18657
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available as requested. HMRC do not keep records of the number of claims to advanced funding which are rejected and therefore it is not possible to provide proportions of those (a) accepted and (b) rejected.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:44:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

433914

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Welfare Tax Credits: Universal Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to paragraph 1.123 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, when he plans to publish further information on transitional protection for universal credit recipients; whether his policy is to guarantee that such protection entails no loss of income for recipients compared to income from tax credits; and whether he plans for such protection to apply to (a) new applicants and (b) people who experience a change in circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	18654
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>At the summer budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the Government’s commitment to move the UK from a high tax, high welfare, low wage society to a lower tax, lower welfare, higher wage society. This remains the case, and Universal Credit (UC) is delivering this.</p><p>UC is a fundamentally different benefit to the legacy benefit system and provides people with support into, and to progress in work.</p><p>Therefore there is no meaningful way of comparing an unreformed Tax Credit system with Universal Credit. The Government has committed to transitional arrangements as we reform the benefits and Tax Credit system. Those transferred without a change of circumstances by DWP from tax credits to UC will receive Transitional Protection so that their income is not reduced as a result of the transfer.</p><p>We will bring forward regulations for transitional protection in due course.</p><br /> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 17:33:38 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

433915

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
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	Maternity Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what amount of National Insurance contributions (a) FTSE100 companies, (b) businesses qualifying for Small Employer's Relief and (c) other companies claimed from HM Revenue and Customs to pay for statutory maternity pay for their employers for the (i) first six weeks of their employees' leave and (ii) subsequent 33 such weeks.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	18659
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>DWP data on the amount of National Insurance Contributions claimed by employers to pay for Statutory Maternity Pay comes from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><br /><p>The information is not available in the exact breakdowns requested as:</p><ul><li>HMRC do not hold information on the amount of National Insurance contributions claimed for SMP from (a) FTSE100 companies; and</li><li>DWP are unable to provide an estimate of SMP recoveries by employer size <em>and</em> duration of employees’ leave. This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</li></ul> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 08/12/2015 11:39:31 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

433919

registered interest
date	03/12/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Granite
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he took the National Crime Agency investigation into the Project Eagle loan sale by Ireland's National Asset Management Agency to Cerberus into account in decisions on the sale of UK Asset Resolutions' Granite Portfolio to Cerberus.
tabling member constituency	Leeds East
tabling member printed	Richard Burgon
uin	18744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>Cerberus was selected as the successful bidder for UK Asset Resolution (UKAR)’s Granite portfolio following a thorough due diligence process. Cerberus have confirmed to UKAR that their involvement in the Project Eagle loan sale was conducted with the utmost integrity; and have separately provided a detailed submission to the Northern Ireland Committee on Finance and Personnel, which conducted a full enquiry into the sale.</p> answering member constituency West Worcestershire answering member printed Harriett Baldwin question first answered 08/12/2015 14:51:54 answering member 4107 label Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin
tabling member	4493 label Biography information for Richard Burgon