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392011

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Tickets: Touting
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with (1) the City of London, (2) the Competition and Markets Authority, and (3) any other relevant authorities, about the enforcement of measures covering the resale of tickets set out in section 90 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
	tabling member printed	Lord Moynihan
	uin	HL1774
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/08/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government is liaising with: (1) the City of London police on measures being taken against fraudulent ticketing activity online (2) the Competition and Markets Authority about their strategy for monitoring compliance with the regulations and the undertakings from secondary platforms they received in March 2015; and (3) business and consumer advice bodies on how best to guide vendors and advise buyers on what the Act requires of sellers and the protections and recourse available to consumers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 03/08/2015 16:16:31 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	924 label Biography information for Lord Moynihan

435741

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Tradeshow Access Programme
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government (1) what was the budget for the Trade Show Access Programme (TAP) from 1 April to 30 March in (a) 2014–15, and (b) 2015–16; (2) what they expect the budget to be for the financial years (a) 2016–17, (b) 2017–18, and (c) 2018–19; and (3) whether the Minister for Trade and Investment plans to meet the Sponsors Alliance to discuss the future of the Trade Show Access Programme, and if so, when the meeting will take place.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
	uin	HL4316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The budget for the Tradeshow Access Programme was £11.05M in 2014/15 and the estimated spend in 2015/16 is £10.25M.</p><p>For 2016/17 and beyond, UKTI will be reviewing how the Tradeshow Access Programme is aligned with other Export Services as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement. It is therefore not possible to confirm the budget at this stage.</p><p>I will respond positively to a request for a meeting with the Sponsors Alliance subject to diary commitments.</p><br /> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 15/12/2015 16:49:11 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

388477

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2015
	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	Unpaid Work
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government (1) whether they will list the categories of employed people who are not remunerated, including Ministers, who are exempted from the provisions of the minimum wage legislation, and (2) whether unpaid Ministers will qualify for the proposed living wage.
	tabling member printed	Lord Jopling
	uin	HL1252
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2015 answer text <p>Certain exemptions to qualification to the National Minimum Wage apply through Part 6 (Exclusions) of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015[1]. The noble Lord will find a list of those exempted from the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 on the Gov.uk webpage <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/who-gets-the-minimum-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage/who-gets-the-minimum-wage</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers are generally classified as ‘office holders’ who are neither workers nor employees, except where the individual also holds an employment contract with the same company or organisation that meets the criteria for <a href="https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/employee" target="_blank">employees</a>. Where a Minister meets this criteria and is classed as a worker under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker</a>), they will be entitled to the National Minimum Wage and the new National Living Wage once implemented in April 2016.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127964/pdfs/ukdsi_9780111127964_en.pdf</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name National minimum wage.PDF.docx title National Minimum Wage 2 file name Employment status.pdf.docx title Employment Status question first answered 22/07/2015 16:35:41 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	883 label Biography information for Lord Jopling

445778

	registered interest
	date	19/01/2016
	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	Trade Union Bill
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for how many officials working on the impact assessment for the Trade Union Bill is it taking up 75 per cent or more of their working time.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL5188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government has published detailed Impact Assessments for the Bill - on the Trade Union Bill, on the Reporting of Facility Time in the Public Sector, and on the Prohibition on Deduction of Union Subscriptions from Wages in the Public Sector. At a meeting with Peers in December, Ministers committed to publishing prior to the Lords Committee stage of the Bill, and they were published in good time on 21 January.</p><p> </p><p>The Trade Union Bill's impact assessment has been subject to scrutiny by the independent Regulatory Policy Committee, and its opinion has been published alongside the impact assessment.</p><p> </p><p>They were reviewed and approved by the relevant Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office. The Permanent Secretary has been kept informed of progress on all stages of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p>Policy officials and analysts in both Departments have worked together to produce the impact assessments as quickly as possible while ensuring that the analysis was thorough.</p><p> </p><p>We have not asked civil servants working on the Bill in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office to fill out time sheets.</p><p> </p><p>We do not record which particular documents each special adviser reads. Special advisers have access to departmental papers in line with the Special Advisers' Code of Conduct and provide advice to Ministers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am placing copies of the relevant documentation in the Library.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 04/02/2016 14:19:45 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

226867

	registered interest
	date	11/03/2015
	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	Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for the year 2013–14 how many young people aged 18, 19, 20 and 21 started apprenticeships; and for each age cohort how many did so at level 2, level 3, level 4 and above.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Clifton
	uin	HL5659
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of apprenticeships starts for those aged 18, 19, 20 and 21 for each Level and in total in 2013/14.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Apprenticeship Starts by Age and Level, 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p>Intermediate Level Apprenticeship (Level 2)</p></td><td><p>Advanced Level Apprenticeship (Level 3)</p></td><td><p>Higher Apprenticeship (Level 4+)</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>34,100</p></td><td><p>20,200</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>55,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>24,400</p></td><td><p>15,300</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>40,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>20,000</p></td><td><p>12,600</p></td><td><p>600</p></td><td><p>33,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>16,800</p></td><td><p>10,000</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>27,200</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) The source is the Individualised Learner Record.</p><p> </p><p>2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 23/03/2015 13:04:29 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3144 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Clifton

439111

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	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	Trade Union Bill
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government for what reasons they have decided not to follow the guidance set out in Chapter 14 of the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation in respect of the Trade Union Bill, and in particular the requirement in paragraph 14.10 to publish the final impact assessment "at the final proposal stage".
	tabling member printed	Lord Lea of Crondall
	uin	HL4655
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>In line with the Cabinet Office guidance, we will publish a final impact assessment before enactment. The Government has already published consultation Impacts Assessments alongside the public consultations that support the overall package of reforms, as well as an equality impact assessment and will publish a further Impact Assessment on the Bill before Lords Committee.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/01/2016 11:55:32 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2482 label Biography information for Lord Lea of Crondall

388072

	registered interest
	date	07/07/2015
	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	Apprentices: Engineering
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how decisions about allocating funding to engineering apprenticeships for those aged (1) 16–18, and (2) 19 and over, are made.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Sharp of Guildford
	uin	HL1198
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2015 answer text <p>Apprenticeships are paid jobs with high quality training. The locations and sectors where apprenticeships are available are determined by employers offering opportunities and recruiting apprentices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are committed to 3 million apprenticeship starts during the next 5 years and we will work with employers, including in the engineering sector, to provide more apprenticeship opportunities, particularly for young people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the Skills Funding Agency, the Government provides funding for training where employers hire an apprentice and currently fully funds apprenticeship training for 16 – 18 year olds and up to 50% of apprenticeship training for over 19s.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 21/07/2015 13:07:08 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2113 label Biography information for Baroness Sharp of Guildford

419396

	registered interest
	date	17/09/2015
	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	Overseas Students
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how frequently, and in what way, they monitor and compare their performance in attracting overseas students to study and work in the United Kingdom with that of other countries; and following such analysis, whether they plan to make adjustments to their current policies.
	tabling member printed	The Earl of Dundee
	uin	HL2327
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2015 answer text <p>Overseas students are welcome in the UK and there is no cap on the number of such students. The OECD’s Education at a Glance, published annually, compares our performance with that of other countries. In 2012, the UK was estimated to have a 13% share of the international student market (OECD, 2014), second only to the US. The Government is committed to increasing education exports from £18bn in 2012 to £30bn by 2020and our International Education strategy is helping to achieve that.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 30/09/2015 13:41:51 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
	tabling member	2735 label Biography information for The Earl of Dundee

434140

	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	Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) 16 year olds, (2) 17 year olds, and (3) 18 year olds, started an apprenticeship in (a) England, and (b) each region in England in the latest period for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Sharp of Guildford
	uin	HL4259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows Apprenticeship starts in 2014/15 by learners aged 16-18 by region and age.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="9"><p><strong>Table 1: 16-18 Apprenticeship starts by age and region, 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Age</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>16</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>18</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North East</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,850</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,910</p></td><td><p>3,820</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>North West</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,710</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>6,660</p></td><td><p>8,620</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Yorkshire and the Humber</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,670</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,500</p></td><td><p>7,200</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East Midlands</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,970</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,410</p></td><td><p>5,450</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>West Midlands</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,960</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,960</p></td><td><p>6,490</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>East of England</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>2,970</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,070</p></td><td><p>5,580</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>London</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>1,820</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,350</p></td><td><p>4,810</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South East</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,560</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>5,360</p></td><td><p>7,270</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>South West</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>3,110</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>4,310</p></td><td><p>5,740</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>England Total</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>27,600</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>41,500</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>55,000</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Other</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>400</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>530</p></td><td><p>620</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>28,000</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>42,100</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>55,600</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 except totals which are rounded to the nearest hundred.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>2) Age is calculated based on age at start of the programme.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>3) Age is based upon self-declaration by the learner.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>4) Region is based upon the home postcode of the learner. Where the postcode is outside of England, learners are included in the 'Other' category. Where postcode is not known this is also included in the 'Other' category.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9"><p>5) These figures are based on the geographic boundaries of regions as of May 2010.</p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2015 11:36:37 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	2113 label Biography information for Baroness Sharp of Guildford

100604

	registered interest
	date	23/10/2014
	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	Apprentices
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) 16 year-olds, (2) 17 year-olds, and (3) 18 year-olds started apprenticeships in the academic years 2012–13 and 2013–14 in England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Smith of Clifton
	uin	HL2335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2014 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of apprenticeship starts for 16, 17 and 18 year olds in 2012/13 and provisional full year apprenticeship starts for the same ages in 2013/14. Provisional data are subject to change and should not be directly compared with data from earlier academic years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship starts by age (2012/13 and 2013/14 provisional full year)</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Age</p></td><td><p>Full year</p></td><td><p>(provisional)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>25,080</p></td><td><p>25,170</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>35,810</p></td><td><p>38,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>53,430</p></td><td><p>54,140</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p> </p><p>1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>2) Age is calculated based on age at start of the programme rather than based on 31 August.</p><p> </p><p>3) Provisional data are subject to change and should not be directly compared with data from earlier academic years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 29/10/2014 17:05:23 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	3144 label Biography information for Lord Smith of Clifton