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93747

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date	16/10/2014
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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
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 he has made of the number of (a) cases of mediation undertaken between banks and individuals or companies and (b) outcome of mediation following use of the enterprise finance guarantee scheme.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>Operation of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) is devolved by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to the participating lenders. BIS monitors lenders’ administration of EFG but does not intervene in individual disputes between lenders and borrowers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If a borrower has a complaint regarding their loan they should initially follow their lender’s internal complaints process. If that does not provide a satisfactory outcome then in most cases they have the option of approaching the Financial Ombudsman Service.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Use of mediation as a means of resolving any disputes which may have arisen between participating lenders and borrowers who have received an EFG-backed loan is a matter for the lender and borrower.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/10/2014 11:30:48 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93748

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
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 complaints about the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme his Department has received in each year since the inception of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Delivery of EFG is fully devolved to over 40 participating lenders, each of which has their own arrangements for handling customer complaints. The Department does not mediate in disputes between individual borrowers and lenders. Any business complaining to BIS or the British Business Bank is guided in the first instance to follow their lender’s complaints procedure. Upon exhaustion of that process the next step for dealing with an unresolved dispute in most instances will be to refer it to the Financial Ombudsman Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/10/2014 13:08:39 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93749

registered interest
date	16/10/2014
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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
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 applications to the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme have been (a) submitted, (b) approved and (c) terminated following approval by his Department since the inception of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2014 answer text <p>Delivery of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) is fully devolved to over 40 participating lenders. As such the Department for Business Innovation and Skills does not directly receive, approve or terminate any EFG applications.</p><p>Participating lenders do not report to the Department numbers of applications submitted or terminated. Since inception of the scheme in January 2009, participating lenders have made offers of 26,189 EFG-backed loans and other types of debt facilities.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/10/2014 13:09:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93589

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nitrous Oxide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many letters her Department sent to festival organisers regarding supply of nitrous oxide in 2014; and what response she received to those letters.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210813
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not monitor the sale of nitrous oxide in legitimate products. <br><br>Our concerns about the availability and use of nitrous oxide at summer festivals was highlighted in my letter to 30 festivals organisers <br>earlier this year. I asked them to take steps to prevent its sale and use for recreational purposes. The letter was copied to the relevant local authority <br>and police force for each of the festival sites. <br><br>There has been a positive response from festival organisers to this and the efforts of other partners, including reports that some organisers adopted a &quot;no legal high&quot; policy which extended to nitrous oxide.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 21/10/2014 16:02:40 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 22870 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93591

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Nitrous Oxide
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the prevalence of the sale of nitrous oxide in catering products for the purpose of recreational inhalation.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not monitor the sale of nitrous oxide in legitimate products. <br><br>Our concerns about the availability and use of nitrous oxide at summer festivals was highlighted in my letter to 30 festivals organisers <br>earlier this year. I asked them to take steps to prevent its sale and use for recreational purposes. The letter was copied to the relevant local authority and police force for each of the festival sites. <br><br>There has been a positive response from festival organisers to this and the efforts of other partners, including reports that some organisers adopted a &quot;no legal high&quot; policy which extended to nitrous oxide.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker question first answered 21/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker previous answer version 22869 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Norman Baker answering member 28 label Biography information for Norman Baker
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93601

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passengers flew into private airfields and were unchecked by immigration officers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>It is Home Office policy not to release operationally sensitive information at passenger level.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 16:32:55 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93602

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many flights into private airfields were unchecked by immigration officers in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>In each year since 2010, checks have been carried out on all flights into private airfields that were notified to Border Force.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/10/2014 13:28:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93603

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Compass Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have spent a night in a hotel under the Compass contract for asylum seeker accommodation in each month of 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not centrally hold information on the number of asylum seekers who have been accommodated in hotels. This information is held by our accommodation providers. To locate, retrieve and analyse this information and prepare a response would only be possible at a disproportionate cost</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 24/10/2014 16:55:58 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

93607

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Gangmasters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) investigations of and (b) prosecutions for illegal gangmaster activity there have been in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	210778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2014 answer text <p>The data in the following tables is management information collated by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA). The data relates only to investigations involving the GLA and prosecutions initiated by the GLA in relation to the offences in the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004. The investigations data includes GLA-only investigations as well as those in which GLA have worked jointly with partner agencies (including the police forces, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, National Crime Agency and the UK Human Trafficking Centre). <br><br>Over time the GLA has undertaken a reduced number of more complex investigations which focus more effectively on serious and organised crime. This reflects a targeting and risk-based enforcement approach by the GLA. Only one GLA-initiated prosecution has ever failed to return a conviction.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/10/2014 17:16:07 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley attachment 1 file name PQ 210778 - data tables.xls title Management information
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

90513

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people who absconded after apprehension by UK Border Force staff at ports of entry in each of the last three years were subsequently captured.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	208121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2014 answer text <p>Table one below shows how many people were detained at border points of entry in the last 3 years. ‘Detained’ has been taken to mean those issued an IS81 at a border point of entry, which means that the person has been stopped subject to further examination.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 1</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>27,945</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>25,284</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>30,531</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>To establish the reason why the person was detained at the border would incur a disproportionate cost, as this would involve the examination of individual records. <br><br>Since this government split Border Force from the flawed UK Border Agency and introduced a Ministerially approved Operating Mandate, Border Force’s performance has improved across the board. The number of people who have absconded from a port of entry having been stopped by a Border Force officer has significantly decreased since 2012.<br><br>The number of people who absconded from ports of entry after being stopped by Border Force officers in each of the last three years is shown in table two:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 2</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people absconded</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>2</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br><br>This compares with 28 people in 2007/2008, 24 people in 2008/2009 and 11 people in 2009/10. <br><br>The number of people who have been stopped by a Border Force Officer that have been recovered having absconded from a port of entry is shown in table three:</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 3</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of absconders who subsequently recovered</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The number of people detained at border ports of entry in each of the last three years who were granted temporary admission is shown in table four:<br>This is management information, which is subject to internal quality checks, and may be subject to change.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Table 4</strong></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Time period</td><td>Number of people issued an IS81 who were granted temporary admission</td></tr><tr><td>2011/12</td><td>5,702</td></tr><tr><td>2012/13</td><td>4,130</td></tr><tr><td>2013/14</td><td>6,720</td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire grouped question UIN 208119 208120 208122 question first answered 22/10/2014 15:51:22 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire attachment 1 file name 208119 - Table.xls title Table - PQ 208119
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson