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170263

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people took the Life in the United Kingdom citizenship test in each month from January 2013 until November 2014 inclusive.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3759
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>Information is not published in this format. However, statistics relating to the number of Life in the UK tests taken are already published quarterly on the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-november-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-november-2014</a></p><p>Table LUK1 refers, which provides data up to and including September 2014. Data relating to October and November 2014 will be published in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/01/2015 14:40:59 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

170264

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many complaints were made about the Life in the United Kingdom citizenship test each month from January 2013 until November 2014.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>This information is not aggregated in national reporting systems and could only be obtained by a disproportionately expensive manual case by case search to collate the data.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 07/01/2015 14:53:53 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

170265

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	British Nationality: Assessments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people have taken the Life in the United Kingdom citizenship test for a second time after passing the test previously because they lost the certificate confirming they had passed.
tabling member printed	Lord Roberts of Llandudno
uin	HL3761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>No statistical information is available showing how many people have re-taken the test for this purpose. It would not be necessary to re-take the test in these circumstances as each test result is transferred to Home Office systems for reference purposes and would therefore be available to the caseworker considering any subsequent application for settlement or citizenship.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 06/01/2015 14:34:22 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	3691 label Biography information for Lord Roberts of Llandudno

170273

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	British Council
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to raise awareness of the work of the British Council, and the Erasmus+ scheme.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The National Agency (a consortium of the British Council and Ecorys UK) deliver the Erasmus+ programme in the UK. The National Agency has a communications team that is dedicated to raising awareness of the Erasmus+ programme. The UK Government does not duplicate this work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 06/01/2015 15:42:38 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

170274

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures are in place to increase the proportion of young people under 25 registered to vote in the 2015 General Election.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government has introduced online registration in Great Britain. Young people are one of the biggest users of on-line registration to date and over 852,595 have applied to register to vote since June.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 9 January Government announced that almost £10 million will be given to local authorities and to national activity to boost the number of people registering to vote around the country. This is in addition to the £4.2 million announced last year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Up to £2.5 million will be used to fund wider activity, including working with national organisations to encourage groups who are not as well represented on the electoral register in general, such as young people including students.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 16/01/2015 13:51:53 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

170292

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	UK Trade and Investment: West Midlands
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 the West Midlands have received support from UK Trade and Investment in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	218798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The figures below detail the number of businesses which have had interactions with UKTI West Midlands in the last 5 financial years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>West Midlands based</strong></p><p><strong>Businesses Assisted*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>2333</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2212</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2784</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2993</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2799 (to Dec 2014)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>*The figures provided are the total number of unique businesses that benefited from a Service Delivery. Service Delivery is participation in either the Passport To Export or Gateway to Global Growth programme, or a ‘Significant Assist’ – which is the provision of in-depth advice and support from an International Trade Advisor.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 06/01/2015 16:38:13 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

170296

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
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	Scottish Power
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on implementing the findings of the original report compiled by the Office of Fair Trading and Department of Trade and Industry regarding the collapse of Scottish Power's Power Plan.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	218594
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>Statutory investigations by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Business, Innovation and Skills) using Companies Act powers are confidential and their findings cannot be disclosed outside strict statutory gateways.</p><p> </p><p>The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) did not directly investigate the collapse of Scottish Power’s Power Plan. In 2003 an investigation was undertaken by the OFT into the terms and conditions used in contracts with consumers purchasing goods under the PowerPlan scheme sold by Scottish Power plc. As a result a series of recommendations regarding those terms and conditions were made to the companies who operated the scheme, and I understand that the recommendations were implemented by the companies before they entered insolvency.</p><p> </p><p>More generally, the OFT investigated the market for extended warranties in the UK in 2002 and, having found that competition in the market did not appear to be working effectively, referred the market to the Competition Commission (CC). Following the CC’s report in 2003, the DTI implemented the Supply of Extended Warranties on Domestic Electrical Goods Order which came into force in April 2005. The OFT undertook a further study of the market for extended warranties in 2012.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 06/01/2015 17:15:43 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

170309

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Written Questions
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 savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office are integral parts of the Cabinet Office.</p><p>The new Q&amp;A system replaces an outdated paper-based process with a digital solution for responding to Written Parliamentary Questions. This has made things considerably more simple for officials, particularly those working in my parliamentary team. In addition, following the introduction of the Q&amp;A system within my Department, a decision was taken to end an existing contract with The Stationery Office that resulted in an annual saving of £6,508 (Ex VAT).</p><p>It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the Q&amp;A system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 218777 218790 question first answered 06/01/2015 17:38:46 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170311

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the savings to his Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems his Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment he has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	218793
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>Treasury ministers are committed to providing timely answers to Parliamentary Questions. The Q&amp;A system, which was introduced in June 2014, has led to greater efficiencies, particularly in relation to the electronic transmission of finalised answers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 07/01/2015 12:12:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

170312

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what mechanisms his Department has put in place to ensure that all its polices are consistent with the UK's commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	218683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2015 answer text <p>HM Treasury considers the impacts of its legislative and wider policy work, including impacts specifically on children. In the course of this work it consults with a number of expert groups and, in particular, works closely with Government Departments with lead responsibilities on policies important for the welfare of children.This approach reflects the government’s commitment to fairness as well as to meeting our wider commitments and legal obligations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/01/2015 11:26:50 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali