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428748

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship starts there have been in each year since 1997.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	16673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of Apprenticeship starts in England from the 1997/98 academic year to 2014/15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship Starts, England, 1997/98 to 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Apprenticeship Starts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997/98</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>75,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998/99</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>118,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999/00</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>165,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000/01</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>177,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001/02</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>162,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>167,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>193,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>189,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>175,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>184,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>224,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>239,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>279,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>457,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>520,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>510,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>440,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>499,900</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1) Data source for 2002/03 onwards is the Individualised Learner Record. Data source from 1997/98 to 2001/02 was the Individualised Student Record, managed by the Further Education Funding Council. Therefore data prior to 2002/03 is not directly comparable to later years.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Data for 2002/03 onwards is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>3) Data prior to 2002/03 are rounded to the nearest thousand.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>4) Data from 2002/03 onwards are rounded to the nearest hundred.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 25/11/2015 11:54:42 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

437335

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2015
	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	Pyramid Selling
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department acts as the enforcement authority for the criminal offences defined in Part XI of the Fair Trading Act 1973 and in consequent trading schemes regulations and exemptions; and if he will make statement.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	19725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/12/2015 answer text <p>Breaches of the Trading Schemes legislation (i.e. the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the regulations made under it) would be referred to the lawyers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Criminal Enforcement to determine whether or not a criminal investigation should be undertaken. The matter may also be referred to the Insolvency Service, to investigate and ascertain whether the offending company should be wound up in the public interest. The 1973 Act does not confer an express enforcement duty on any particular body, however this Department would look to bring a case in appropriate circumstances. Otherwise, enforcement could fall to Trading Standards or possibly the Competition Markets Authority should widespread malpractice be suspected.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/12/2015 14:42:19 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

446722

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2016
	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	Business: Franchises
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 28 December 2015 to Question 19725, if, when considering complaints on breaches of the Trading Schemes Act 1996, his Department will take into account the contents of franchisees' contracts on the terms of trade and the relationship between the franchisee, master franchisor in the UK and overseas franchisor in order to determine (a) the number of master franchisors in the UK of an overseas based franchisor and (b) if the trading scheme was subject to the Trading Schemes Regulations, whether its contracts complied with those regulations; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	23663
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further to the answer given on 28 December to question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-12-11/19725/" target="_blank">19725</a>, the Department, or any authority investigating, would take into account all the relevant circumstances and the applicability of relevant legislation, before deciding whether to pursue a case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/02/2016 17:37:51 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

479497

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2016
	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	Zika Virus: Research
	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 help support research into the Zika virus.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	31598
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>In February we allocated £1 million from the Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund to help urgently tackle the Zika virus; the Medical Research Council (MRC) received over 100 applications for support through its Rapid Response Initiative. To meet this demand, in March we committed up to an additional £2 million, with a further £1 million from the Wellcome Trust, bringing the total that was available up to a maximum of £4 million of funding.</p><p>Today, the MRC has announced that it has allocated c. £3.2 million of this funding to tackle the emerging and unknown threats of this virus. Our commitment to protect the science budget in real terms to the end of the Parliament means we can react quickly to help tackle these life-threatening global challenges.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 11:26:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

532873

	registered interest
	date	05/07/2016
	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	Minimum Wage: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if his Department will undertake an assessment of the potential effect on business of introducing a minimum wage of £17.50 per hour.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	41917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2016 answer text <p>Increasing the National Living Wage (NLW) for workers aged 25 and over to £17.50 in 2020 would represent an increase of 143% on the current NLW (£7.20) and of 94% on the current forecasted NLW of £9.00 by 2020.</p><p>Based on an underlying assumption that the wage distribution from April 2015 grows in line with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) average earnings forecast made in March 2016, we estimate that in 2020, a NLW of £17.50 would be equivalent to around 116% of the projected median wage. Around 15 million employees would be covered by such an NLW, and labour costs would be around £150 billion higher in 2020 compared to a counterfactual of forecast average earnings growth (in nominal terms) due to the direct effects of the NLW. This is equivalent to an increase in total compensation of employees of almost 15%.</p><p>We also estimate that there would be somewhere close to 1.75 million job losses and somewhere between 65,000 and 119,000 business deaths. There would also most likely be a substantial reduction in hours worked, increased labour costs and increased prices, and obvious disincentives to starting new businesses.</p><p>This assessment is based on BIS analysis of provisional data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2015 and is subject to significant uncertainty given that a National Living Wage of £17.50 is considerably higher than any previous NMW increase or any minimum wage internationally. Our cost estimates do not include estimates of any ripple effects higher up the wage distribution if employers were to restore wage differentials above the NLW.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 14/07/2016 10:04:52 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

1136984

	registered interest
	date	04/07/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Trading Schemes Act 1996
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which Government Department is responsible for enforcing The Trading Schemes Act 1996.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	273472
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2019 answer text <p>The Trading Schemes Act 1996 amended Part XI (pyramid selling and similar trading schemes) of the Fair Trading Act 1973. The 1973 Act, as it now stands, does not confer an express enforcement duty on any particular body. The Department for Trade and Industry has previously led on enforcement of the 1973 Act, and its functions have now transferred to the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 11/07/2019 13:03:41 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

623469

	registered interest
	date	28/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Meters
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the proportion of installed smart meters that cannot work because they do not have adequate mobile signal.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	50930
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>During the current Foundation Stage of the roll-out of smart metering, energy suppliers are installing smart meters using their own communications systems, which typically use mobile phone network services. The Government does not hold information on the adequacy of the coverage of these communications systems.</p><p>For the main installation stage beginning later this year, the Data and Communications Company (DCC) is putting in place a shared communications network across GB to send and receive information from smart meters to energy suppliers, energy network operators and energy service companies via a Wide Area Network (WAN) using both cellular and long range radio technologies.</p><p>The DCC has contracted services to provide coverage of at least 99.25% of GB premises by the end of 2020 and has already achieved coverage of more than 80% of GB premises.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/11/2016 16:17:39 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

626139

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the relative efficiency of combined cycle gas turbines and reciprocating gas and diesel engines.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	51205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The Department last published estimates of the efficiency of different technologies in 2013 [1]. As the design of many of these technologies is rapidly changing, we expect to publish an update of the evidence in due course.</p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-generation-cost-projections" target="_blank"><em>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/energy-generation-cost-projections</em></a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/11/2016 14:56:35 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

626140

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) number of gas or diesel reciprocating engines and (b) generating capacity likely to qualify in the T4 Capacity Market auction.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	51204
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2016 answer text <p>The prequalification results for the 2016 four-year ahead Capacity Market auction have been published on the Electricity Market Reform Delivery Body’s website[1]. Around a quarter of the pre-qualified capacity is new-build, and nearly half of this is from combined cycle gas turbines (CCGTs). Approximately 6.1GW of reciprocating engines (existing and new) have also prequalified.</p><p> </p><p>The competitive nature of the auction means it is difficult to predict accurately the specific technologies and projects that will win agreements. CCGTs and gas reciprocating engines differ with respect to their cost and revenue profiles, with both technologies able to play a valuable role in the electricity market – CCGTs are highly efficient at providing baseload generation, whereas gas reciprocating engines are highly flexible and useful for helping balance the electricity system. Both will also compete against new interconnection, storage and demand-side response bids.</p><p> </p><p>My department has been working – as have Ofgem and Defra – to address potential distortions in the wider market and so ensure all projects compete on a level playing field.</p><p>A mix of new build technologies, in addition to existing capacity, could win, with competition bearing down on the auction cost to deliver value for money for the consumer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/CM/prequalification.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.emrdeliverybody.com/CM/prequalification.aspx</a></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 51203 question first answered 08/11/2016 17:59:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

626142

	registered interest
	date	31/10/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Electricity Generation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many sub-1000MW reciprocating engines have prequalified for the Third T4 Capacity Market auction; and whether his Department has made an assessment of the effect of such pre-qualifications on the UK's ability to meet its carbon emission targets.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	51207
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/11/2016 answer text <p>Approximately 6.1GW of reciprocating engines have prequalified for the 2016 four-year ahead Capacity Market auction.</p><p>Reciprocating engines emit less carbon per unit of generation than coal-fired power stations. They can also emit less carbon than larger gas-fired generation plants under certain conditions [1].</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em> National Physical Laboratory (2015): Carbon savings of demand side response of a UK energy</em></p><p><em>aggregator <a href="http://www.npl.co.uk/content/ConPublication/6739" target="_blank">http://www.npl.co.uk/content/ConPublication/6739</a></em></p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 07/11/2016 12:00:26 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey