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1687358

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date	05/02/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps her Department is taking to help support the development of new small businesses.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Julian Sturdy
uin	12953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government reaffirmed its commitment to all the UK’s 5.5 million small businesses with the creation of a new Small Business Council. The Council builds on the Department’s existing support for SMEs and will provide a bespoke forum for small businesses to have their voices represented within Government.</p><p> </p><p>The Help to Grow website is a one-stop shop for small businesses to clearly identify what funding they can access, webinars as well as the basics of setting up a business.</p><p> </p><p>Businesses can still access government-backed financial support from the Start Up Loans Company, which provides loans and support to new entrepreneurs.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 12/02/2024 16:55:42 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4079 label Biography information for Julian Sturdy

1331466

registered interest
date	09/06/2021
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Summertime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of making daylight saving time permanent.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	12953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2021 answer text <p>The Government believes that the current daylight-saving arrangements represent the optimal use of the available daylight across the UK. We do not believe there is sufficient evidence to support changing the current system of clock changes, including for travel, tourism and energy usage.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 18/06/2021 08:31:18 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1176322

registered interest
date	05/02/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Probation: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what estimate he has made of the value of all Innovation Partner contracts under the new planned probation model.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	12953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>We are planning to implement the new model for probation services by June 2021. The competition for Probation Delivery Partner contracts is well underway and we have received sufficient bids for a viable and healthy competition. The total potential Probation Delivery Partner contract value, as published in the Official Journal of the European Union, is £1.26 billion over 8 years. We will launch the competition for providers for the Dynamic Framework competition in the coming months.</p><p>All staff that transfer to the National Probation Service will become civil servants upon transfer. It is our intention to harmonise terms and conditions for this group on transfer as this is a key enabler of the forthcoming changes. However, this is subject to ongoing negotiations with Trade Unions.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 12949 12951 12952 question first answered 11/02/2020 16:53:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

423361

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: Applications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of fast-track passport applications made in the last six months have been processed within seven days.
tabling member constituency	Newport East
tabling member printed	Jessica Morden
uin	12953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is shown in the following table. Her Majesty’s Passport Office has met its published target for Fast Track passport applications for each of the last 6 months.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Passport applications: Fast-Track 7 days </strong></p></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Within 7 days</p></td><td><p>Total Fast-Track applications</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>% Within target</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Apr-15</p></td><td><p>28,389</p></td><td><p>28,392</p></td><td><p>99.99%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>May-15</p></td><td><p>34,455</p></td><td><p>34,461</p></td><td><p>99.98%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jun-15</p></td><td><p>40,150</p></td><td><p>40,159</p></td><td><p>99.98%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jul-15</p></td><td><p>50,369</p></td><td><p>50,371</p></td><td><p>100.00%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug-15</p></td><td><p>39,125</p></td><td><p>39,129</p></td><td><p>99.99%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-15</p></td><td><p>23,951</p></td><td><p>23,957</p></td><td><p>99.97%</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 04/11/2015 17:04:42 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire previous answer version 25928 answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1548 label Biography information for Jessica Morden