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156912

	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	EU External Trade: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what occasions have (a) EU companies seeking to trade in the US and (b) US companies seeking to trade in the EU claimed to have been discriminated against by the courts of the host nation in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	215459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>Claims made by EU investors in third countries or vice versa may be made in a wide range of situations in which the UK government is not involved and about which it does not have access to relevant information.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 05/12/2014 14:57:50 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

166518

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	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	EU External Trade: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in which countries in the proposed TTIP trading bloc domestic courts have failed to provide compensation to foreign corporations whose property has been unfairly confiscated or whose contracts have been unfairly terminated; and what the reasons were for compensation not having been given.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Zac Goldsmith
	uin	216258
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not routinely hold information on, or assess the fairness or otherwise of, the compensation decisions of courts in other countries except for individual cases that are brought to our attention by British companies.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/12/2014 16:30:38 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4062 label Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park

164311

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	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	Regeneration
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what investment in regeneration projects the Regeneration Investment Organisation has secured in the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	Caerphilly
	tabling member printed	Wayne David
	uin	215654
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>Having built up a ‘shovel ready’ pipeline of 41 projects within 12 months, UK Trade and Investment’s Regeneration Investment Organisation (RIO) will shortly announce its first win for this financial year. RIO hopes to deliver two more project wins this financial year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond this, RIO’s £112bn long-term pipeline has the potential to create 640,000 jobs. 41 out of a total 180 projects have undergone technical investment evaluation and this number will soon rise to 100 verified projects. RIO has prioritised its overseas investors from 7 key markets and continues to support investment and supply chain development into ongoing projects such as Manchester Airport City and Battersea Power Station.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/12/2014 16:16:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 30716 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1398 label Biography information for Wayne David

171959

	registered interest
	date	05/01/2015
	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	Wind
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate she has made of the mean wind speed in each constituent part of the UK in each month of 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
	uin	219685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Based on data from its network of wind observing stations, the Met Office’s estimate of mean wind speed in each of the constituent parts of the UK in each month of 2014 is shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="5"><p><strong><em>Mean wind speed (knots)</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong><em>Month (2014)</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>UK</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>England</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Wales</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Scotland</em></strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>Northern Ireland</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January</p></td><td><p>11.0</p></td><td><p>10.2</p></td><td><p>12.2</p></td><td><p>12.2</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February</p></td><td><p>13.7</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td><td><p>16.4</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td><td><p>13.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>10.5</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>10.3</p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>7.9</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td><td><p>8.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>8.0</p></td><td><p>7.7</p></td><td><p>8.5</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>6.1</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>6.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>7.4</p></td><td><p>7.0</p></td><td><p>7.3</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>9.2</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td><td><p>9.6</p></td><td><p>10.4</p></td><td><p>8.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>6.2</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td><td><p>5.8</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td><td><p>5.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>10.6</p></td><td><p>9.1</p></td><td><p>11.9</p></td><td><p>12.6</p></td><td><p>9.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>8.2</p></td><td><p>7.5</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>9.3</p></td><td><p>7.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>11.3</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td><td><p>12.5</p></td><td><p>13.3</p></td><td><p>10.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/01/2015 16:14:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 37629 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

228478

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2015
	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	New Businesses: Government Assistance
	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 start-up loans have been awarded since the introduction of that scheme in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency, (b) South Lanarkshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK; and what the total value is of those loans.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Tom Greatrex
	uin	228490
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Set out below are the number and value of Start Up Loans awarded for the UK, Scotland, South Lanarkshire and the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency (up to the 28<sup>th</sup> February 2015).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Loans awarded</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Value</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>£96,365.09</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>£208,891.41</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>1,193</p></td><td><p>£4,408,809</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK</p></td><td><p>27,034</p></td><td><p>£140,814,749</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 24/03/2015 15:33:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4047 label Biography information for Tom Greatrex

167964

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2014
	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	Mentorsme
	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 performance of the Mentors Me website.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	217143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2015 answer text <p>Last year the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funded the creation of a network of 27,000 accredited business mentors and partnered with the British Bankers Association (BBA) and Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) to create the mentorsme website. BBA and SFEDI now lead this initiative and have established a sector-led Enterprise Mentoring Advisory Council with responsibility for assessing the performance of the mentorsme website and the initiative overall.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Advisory Council also have responsibility for upholding the standards for enterprise mentoring, promoting awareness of the benefits of and access to enterprise mentoring and acting as a central policy advisory group.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>BIS has a seat on the Advisory Council and continues to support mentorsme by driving awareness and take up of mentoring as part of the national Business is GREAT campaign and by sharing research evidence and insight.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/01/2015 11:29:15 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

174986

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	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	Property Searches
	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 potential effect on small and micro businesses of centralising local land charges registers.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	221555
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>A Regulatory Impact Assessment relating to the provision of Local Land Charges has been produced by Land Registry. The Impact Assessment is a living document and continues to be revised in the light of greater stakeholder engagement. This takes into account the potential benefits of a fully digitised service to mitigate the effects of degrading paper and other records, with improved turnaround times, greater efficiencies and a lower fee for the customer. The Impact Assessment states that creating a single, digital Local Land Charges register would enable small and micro businesses to streamline their access arrangements.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:45:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

174987

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	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	Property Searches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what secondary legislation would be required, in addition to the Infrastructure Bill, in order to extend centralisation of local land charges register data to CON29 searches.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	221556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>The CON 29 service is a non-statutory service provided by local authorities. The measures in the Infrastructure Bill will only transfer responsibility for the statutory local land charges service from local authorities to Land Registry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 17:07:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

175020

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	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	Property Searches
	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 local authorities were involved in trials of the new local land charges register scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	221557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>7 local authorities took part in the prototype exercise in 2013. They were;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Liverpool</p><p> </p><p>Sefton</p><p> </p><p>Denbighshire</p><p> </p><p>Newark and Sherwood</p><p> </p><p>Swindon</p><p> </p><p>Watford</p><p> </p><p>Havant</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:39:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

175021

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2015
	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	Property Searches
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what safeguards are in place to ensure that prospective home-ownership deals do not collapse as a result of centralising local land charges registers.
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	uin	221558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>To safeguard home-ownership Land Registry already rigorously tests all IT solutions it builds and it will do the same for any new Local Land Charges system that it introduces.</p><p> </p><p>Implementation will also require a range of secondary legislation to support the changes, so ensuring that Parliament has the opportunity to monitor progress and to comment where it is deemed necessary.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:33:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins