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156914

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Defence: Kuwait
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Kuwaiti defence companies in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	215411
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for April – June 2014 is due to be published soon.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 11:17:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

156915

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Bayer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had with Bayer plc in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	215405
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for April – June 2014 is due to be published soon.</p><p> </p><p>Details of meetings with officials are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 25/11/2014 13:46:31 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

156916

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the effect of the changes to insolvency litigation in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on the Government's ability to tackle director misconduct.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	215435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Ministers are regularly in touch about matters in which they have a common interest.</p><p> </p><p>The changes in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are not expected to have any impact on the c.1, 200 directors we disqualify every year as a result of actions brought by officials in The Insolvency Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 25/11/2014 13:33:49 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

156918

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Defence: Qatar
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Qatari defence companies in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	215409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Details of Ministers’ meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for April – June 2014 is due to be published soon.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 25/11/2014 11:23:25 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay

156919

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Postal Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received form private sector mail delivery companies on delivering mail in urban areas of the UK; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such proposals on the Royal Mail's ability to deliver Universal Service Provision in rural areas.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
	tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
	uin	215390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Ministers and officials meet intermittently with representatives of UK postal companies, though there have not been any recent representations from such operators specifically on the issue of delivering mail in urban areas of the country.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Under the Postal Services Act 2011, Parliament gave Ofcom as an experienced and independent regulator the primary statutory duty to secure the provision of the universal service to all addresses – urban and rural – in the UK. Ofcom maintains an ongoing monitoring regime which tracks Royal Mail’s performance and any actual or potential market impacts on the provision of the universal service. Ofcom has said that their own evidence clearly shows that the service is not currently under threat.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ofcom has been reviewing the case which Royal Mail has been making about the potential impact of competition on their ability to provide that service and is expected to make a statement very shortly. More information about Ofcom’s regulatory regime can be found on its website (<a href="http://www.ofcom.org.uk/" target="_blank">www.ofcom.org.uk/</a>).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The BIS Select Committee is currently carrying out an inquiry into postal competition in the UK and postal operators have recently submitted their evidence on market competition to inform the inquiry. Copies of written submissions can be found on Parliament’s website (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/inquiries/parliament-2010/competition-in-the-uk-postal-sector-/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/inquiries/parliament-2010/competition-in-the-uk-postal-sector-/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter</a>).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 25/11/2014 13:43:59 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

156920

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Higher Education: Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Statement of 7 April 2014 on higher education student support: changes to Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA), what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes announced in that statement on (a) the level of non-medical support given to students in higher education and (b) decision by disabled students to enter or remain in higher education.
	tabling member constituency	Newport West
	tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
	uin	215511
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government’s Disabled Students’ Allowances Equality Analysis considered the impact of all the changes on students with protected characteristics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not believe that these proposals will discourage disabled students from entering or remaining in higher education</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 25/11/2014 11:32:22 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

156924

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Motor Vehicles: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much and what proportion of the total annual expenditure of the Competition and Markets Authority was spent on activities relating to the motor insurance market in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	215383
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>The Competition and Markets Authority became the UK’s lead competition and consumer body in April 2014, combining the Competition Commission (CC) with many of the functions of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). It does not keep records of its expenditure by market. However, based on approximate time allocations and all-inclusive staff costs, and taking into account some external costs such as the cost of commissioning surveys, the total cost of the CC/CMA market inquiry into private motor insurance (which ran from 28 September 2012 to 24 September 2014) was approximately £2million. On the assumption that this cost was spread evenly over time, this would have represented approximately 4% of the CC’s costs in 2013/14.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 25/11/2014 13:26:38 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

156926

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Motor Vehicles: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much and what proportion of the total annual expenditure of the Financial Reporting Council was spent on activities relating to the motor insurance market in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
	tabling member printed	Richard Burden
	uin	215385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>I understand that the Hon Member has already been in correspondence with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on this issue.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The FRC publishes annual reports on its activity and in addition reports to parliament on the exercise of its statutory functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 25/11/2014 13:22:12 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

157051

	registered interest
	date	20/11/2014
	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	Low Pay
	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 encourage employers to implement the living wage; and what estimate he has made of the number of employees who earn less than the living wage.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	215412
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2014 answer text <p>We have encouraged employers by publicly expressing our support for paying the Living Wage when it is affordable and not at the expense of jobs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To encourage higher living standards we have: raised the personal allowance providing an additional £700 in employee’s pay packets, increased the National Minimum Wage year-on-year despite the worst recession in living memory and on October 1<sup>st</sup> 2014 increased the minimum wage in real terms for the first time since 2007. The Low Pay Commission has reported that real increases are set to continue each year providing the economy continues to grow.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Finally, recent employment growth means that there are now more people in work than ever before providing welcome opportunities for those seeking work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>According to the 2014 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings there are around 5.7 million paid below the Living Wage or 22.7 per cent of workers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 25/11/2014 13:29:42 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

156634

	registered interest
	date	19/11/2014
	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	Exports: Qatar
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all open individual export licences with Qatar in force in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	North East Cambridgeshire
	tabling member printed	Stephen Barclay
	uin	215272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Information on arms exports is published in the Annual and Quarterly Reports on Strategic Export Controls. These reports contain detailed information on export licences issued, refused or revoked, by destination, including the overall value, type (e.g. Military, Other) and a summary of the items covered by these licences. They are available to view at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME" target="_blank">https://www.exportcontroldb.bis.gov.uk/sdb/fox/sdb/SDBHOME</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Bespoke reports can also be produced on specific countries and goods types, but you will need to register to download the data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently the database includes information up to 30 June 2014. Information covering</p><p> </p><p>1 July to 30 September 2014 will be published in January 2015 and information covering</p><p> </p><p>1 October to 312014 will be December will be published in April 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 215273 215274 215275 question first answered 24/11/2014 15:39:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay