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517069

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	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	Financial 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 steps he has taken to support (a) peer-to-peer lending and (b) challenger banks.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	36256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Access to finance on flexible, competitive terms is essential for growing businesses. Challenger banks and alternative finance providers have an important role to play in widening choice and promoting competition.</p><p>Government is bringing into effect provisions in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 which will require the largest banks - where they decline lending requests from small business customers - to offer those customers the opportunity for their details to be referred to a government-designated funding platform. These platforms will be brought into operation later this year and will allow SMEs to match their requirements with offers from peer-to-peer platforms and challenger banks.</p><p>During the last 12 months, the British Business Bank has supported 3,301 businesses through the peer-to-peer platforms Funding Circle, RateSetter and Zopa. The British Business Bank also supports the growth of challenger banks by providing wholesale funds alongside private sector investors.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/05/2016 11:20:52 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

517148

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Further Education: Vocational Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to promote career colleges; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	36242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Career Colleges will have their own branding and identity and are independent of Government policy, so it is not for Government to promote them directly. However, we do support any organisation which is focused on providing high quality technical education to young people.</p><p>In particular, we hope Career Colleges can benefit from the protection of funding and the range of flexibilities in the system. This includes protecting the 16-19 base rate, substantial investment in apprenticeships and study programmes, which provide an opportunity to tailor provision around the needs and aspirations of each young person.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/05/2016 13:35:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

516890

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32963, how many people have been allocated personal independence payments with enhanced mobility payments; and how many of those people have been classed as having muscle degenerative diseases or conditions.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	36150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Information on the number of claimants receiving PIP, by a range of breakdowns, including award combinations in payment and main disabling condition, is published and available using Stat-Xplore: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a>. Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/05/2016 15:52:18 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

516892

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32963, how many personal independence payment awards were made without a face-to-face assessment in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland and (c) Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency in 2015-16; and what the total number of personal independence payment assessments was in each of those areas.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	36148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The information requested on how many Personal Independence Payment (PIP) awards were made without a face-to-face assessment is not readily available, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Information on PIP clearances by type (e.g. awarded, disallowed or withdrawn) for both new claims and reassessed claims (for those previously in receipt of Disability Living Allowance (DLA)) is available at Great Britain, Regional, Parliamentary Constituency and Local Authority level, and is published on Gov.UK: <a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>By adding together the number of claims ‘awarded’ and the number of claims ‘disallowed post referral to the Assessment Provider’, it is possible to calculate the total number of assessments in each area (whether carried out face to face or through a paper based review).</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to use Stat-Xplore can be found here: <a href="https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html" target="_blank">https://sw.stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/index.html</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/05/2016 15:46:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

516889

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Personal Independence Payment: Motability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 13 April 2016 to Question 32963, how many people who have personal independence payments with enhanced mobility payments have initial awards of (a) three years or less and (b) greater than three years before further re-assessment is required.
	tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	tabling member printed	Alan Brown
	uin	36149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The review date is set at 12 months before the end of the award so there are no changes to the benefit paid before the re-assessment takes place.</p><p> </p><p>As at 31<sup>st</sup> January 2016, there were 218,270 claims in payment with enhanced mobility payments, of which;</p><p>(a) 112,340 had an initial award that had a review date of three years or less</p><p>(b) 105,960 had an initial award that had a review date of greater than three years.</p><p> </p><p>This is unpublished data and, as such, it does not meet the quality standard required for official statistics publication. It should be used with caution and it may be subject to future revision.</p><p> </p><p>Notes;</p><p>1) The source of the data is the PIP computer system.</p><p>2) Figures are correct as at 31<sup>st</sup> January 2016 and have been rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p>3) Figures include both new claims and reassessment claims, and normal rules and special rules for the terminally ill claims.</p><p>4) Figures are for Great Britain.</p><p>5) We have provided data based on when the initial award’s review date was set to be, as this is the point at which the claimant would be invited to undertake an award review (i.e. further reassessment of their claim). The award review date occurs exactly 12 months before the initial claim end date.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/05/2016 16:33:23 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
	tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

517811

	registered interest
	date	05/05/2016
	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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
	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 his Department is taking to ensure that the decision-making process followed by local enterprise partnerships is transparent.
	tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
	tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
	uin	36665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>We’ve set out clear standards on transparent decision making, which Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) must comply with through their local assurance frameworks. These are verified by their accountable section 151 officers. We commissioned the Government Internal Audit Agency to review the quality of these frameworks, and keep the system under review through annual performance conversations with each LEP.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 10/05/2016 11:16:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

517167

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	British Overseas Territories: Shipping
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, under what circumstances the Government can take ships up from trade which are registered with flags of British Overseas Territories.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	36361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Any vessel registered in the UK, an Overseas Territory or a Crown Dependency, is a ‘British ship’ and is entitled to fly the British Merchant Shipping flag (the 'Red Ensign'). The UK remains the flag State for all ships flying the Red Ensign and is ultimately responsible under international law for these ships. The UK has general superintendence over the ship registers in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. This general superintendence derives from the UK’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea regarding ships flying its flag; these obligations have been implemented in domestic legislation.</p><p>Under prerogative powers all British flagged vessels (including those on UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependency registers) can be requisitioned where there is deemed to be a threat to the realm. Conscription of all British flagged vessels is done by Government Order. Such Order is enacted only during national crisis, such as war. The decision to use such Order is decided on a case by case basis by the Government of the day. For example, this Order was enacted during the Falklands War.</p> answering member constituency Rochford and Southend East answering member printed James Duddridge question first answered 10/05/2016 13:08:16 answering member 1559 label Biography information for Sir James Duddridge
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

517195

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Obesity: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether data other than the most recent National Diet and Nutrition Survey data is being used in the development of the childhood obesity strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	36356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Childhood Obesity Strategy will draw from a range of the latest data and evidence, including from Public Health England and other partners.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 36357 question first answered 10/05/2016 16:23:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

517196

	registered interest
	date	03/05/2016
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Obesity: Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the most recent National Diet and Nutrition Survey data is being used in the development of the Childhood Obesity Strategy.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	36357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>The Childhood Obesity Strategy will draw from a range of the latest data and evidence, including from Public Health England and other partners.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 36356 question first answered 10/05/2016 16:23:17 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

517440

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2016
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what provisions are in place to ensure that the jurisdiction of Investor State Dispute Settlement tribunal hearings remains restricted to its current mandate under the terms of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	36540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2016 answer text <p>Investment protection provisions in trade and investment treaties such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) aim to protect international investors from discriminatory or unfair treatment by a state. Their investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) provisions allow international investors to bring claims if they think the obligations set out in the treaty have been breached by the host state. As such, Governments cannot initiate claims against investors. Under the European Commission’s proposals for TTIP, in line with normal investment treaty practice, UK investors would be able to bring ISDS claims against the US Government.</p><p>The jurisdiction of any ISDS tribunal established in TTIP will be set out in the investment protection and ISDS provisions of the agreement. The aim of the European Commission’s proposals for investment protection provisions in TTIP is to clearly define the scope for ISDS claims and tribunal jurisdiction, including protecting the right of governments to regulate lawfully in the public interest. If an ISDS tribunal did exceed its jurisdiction in making an award, typically those elements of the resulting award would not be enforceable.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 36501 question first answered 10/05/2016 11:17:15 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell