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479496

	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	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which companies have failed to pay the national minimum wage since the introduction of the new naming and shaming regulations on 1 October 2013.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31589
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>Since the introduction of the revised naming and shaming scheme, details of employers who have failed to pay the National Minimum Wage have been published on gov.uk. Details can be found via the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed-february-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed-february-2016</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed-october-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed-october-2015</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed</a> (July 2015)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-minimum-wage-offenders-named-and-shamed</a> (March 2015)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-and-shames-largest-ever-number-of-national-minimum-wage-offenders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-and-shames-largest-ever-number-of-national-minimum-wage-offenders</a> (February 2015)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-and-shames-37-national-minimum-wage-offenders" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-and-shames-37-national-minimum-wage-offenders</a> (January 2015)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-employers-who-fail-to-pay-the-national-minimum-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-employers-who-fail-to-pay-the-national-minimum-wage</a> (November 2014)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-employers-who-fail-to-pay-minimum-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-employers-who-fail-to-pay-minimum-wage</a> (June 2014)</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-gets-tough-with-employers-failing-to-pay-minimum-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-gets-tough-with-employers-failing-to-pay-minimum-wage</a> (February 2014)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 23/03/2016 16:38:17 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 52916 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

485501

	registered interest
	date	23/03/2016
	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	Agency Workers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on the number of agency workers in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	32389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>Table 1 shows numbers of agency workers for the last 10 years. The figures, obtained from a survey of UK Recruitment firms, represent a snapshot of the volume of workers undertaking a temporary assignment on a given day and are our best estimate of agency worker numbers.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Average Daily Volume of agency workers, 2005/06 – 2014/15</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p>1,270,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>1,380,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>1,220,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>1,070,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>880,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1,050,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,110,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,130,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,160,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,200,000</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>Source: Recruitment Industry Trends Survey 2014/15, Recruitment &amp; Employment Confederation Rounded to nearest 1000.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/04/2016 16:19:06 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 54591 answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479485

	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	Materials: Patents
	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 he has made of the proportion of global patents for graphene that is held in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31662
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2016 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) estimates that 5% of global graphene patent documents published between 2005 and 2014 have coverage in the UK (in that they are applications to the IPO or the European Patent Office (EPO) with effect in the UK, but were not necessarily filed by UK applicants).</p><p> </p><p>In the same period, UK applicants were responsible for filing 1% of published global graphene patent applications worldwide.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 05/04/2016 10:43:10 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot previous answer version 52914 answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479039

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	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	Exports: 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, with reference to Best in Class, published by the CBI in December 2015, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of Swedish four box grid approach to analysing the attractiveness of international markets.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31385
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>In CBI’s Best in Class report, the reference to the Swedish four box grid approach was part of a wider recommendation on allocating overseas resources for business support.</p><p>The UK Government recognises that it has a crucial role to play in supporting businesses that export and invest in international markets.</p><p>The Government is committed to focusing UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) overseas resources for business support in those markets that can deliver greatest benefit for the UK. UKTI uses similar publicly-available market data to Sweden (including GDP growth, political risk and the ease of doing business) in its assessment of export markets, but importantly this is just one input into the opportunity-focused, five-year rolling business planning process being developed to guide resource decisions.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/03/2016 16:26:14 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479043

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	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	Foreign Investment in UK: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was of direct investment from China in each (a) sector and (b) industry sector in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31408
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2016 answer text <p>Information about the financial value of inward FDI stock by sector and source country is available from the ONS FDI Report (MA4, December 2015) and the value of direct investment from China by sector from 2011-2014 can be found in the attached table.</p><p>Please see tab 3.3 in the dataset: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessinnovation/datasets/foreigndirectinvestmentinvolvingukcompanies2013inwardtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessinnovation/datasets/foreigndirectinvestmentinvolvingukcompanies2013inwardtables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/04/2016 09:36:26 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name PQ-31408-table.xls title Direct investment from China 2011 - 2014
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479048

	registered interest
	date	16/03/2016
	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	Environment Protection: Investment
	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 4 February 2016 to Question 24571, what other government policy mechanisms are in place aimed at promoting high-risk green investment.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>As set out in my answer of 4 February 2016 to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-01-27/24571/" target="_blank">24571</a>, this information can be found in paragraphs 31 – 36 of our November 2015 policy statement on the future of the UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) which can be found on the GIB pages of the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/03/2016 16:27:01 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479478

	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	Science: Capital Investment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the running costs were for the 56 capital based science projects which his Department has funded for each year since 2007, referred to in the NAO Report entitled BIS's capital investment in science projects, HC 885, published on 10 March 2016; and what the projected running costs for those projects are for each year to 2020-21.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31687
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>Running costs for 2014-15 for the 56 projects are given in Appendix 3 of the NAO Science Capital report where facilities are operational. These figures come from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and its Partner Organisations and provide an indication of annual running costs of these projects.</p><p>Project level management and allocation of funding for the majority of ongoing science projects is done at Partner Organisation level, in accordance with the delivery responsibilities of the Partner Organisations BIS funds. BIS does not hold this level of information centrally and it would not be possible to collect this information for each of the years since 2007, and estimates for future years, without disproportionate cost. However, the Government has protected the science and research budget in real terms in the 2015 spending review to ensure science spending remains on a sustainable footing and continues to deliver world-class research.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/03/2016 14:52:05 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479494

	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	Companies: Registration
	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 companies have cited in their registration at Companies House their registered office, the address of another business or private individual which they are not authorised to use in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31546
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>Companies House has received the following number of complaints that companies have cited as their registered office, the address of another business or private individual that they allegedly are not authorised to use.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Cases</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,270</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,385</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16 (to date)</p></td><td><p>1,517</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Provisions contained in the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 will be commenced on 6 April. These will allow the Registrar of Companies to act in the event of a complaint of this nature about a registered office.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/03/2016 10:00:15 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479495

	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	Research: Finance
	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 assessment has he made of the potential impact on innovation in the UK of his Department's change to government research and development funding from a grant-based to a loan-based system.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31572
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>Like many of our competitor economies, we are looking to provide a wider range of financial products to support, innovation in UK industry. In the coming months, we will, be conducting market research to better understand the needs of innovative businesses in the UK.</p><p>This will be followed by a pilot to test specific financial support mechanisms, with an evaluation in late 2016, leading to a roll-out of a range of new products in 2017. We will continue to provide grant funding to support research and development where appropriate - including, for example, aerospace research supported by the Aerospace Technology Institute and automotive research supported by the Advanced Propulsion Centre.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/03/2016 14:51:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

480611

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2016
	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	Business: Billing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of UK firms was owed money for late payments in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information required to make an estimate of proportion of UK firms owed money for late payments in each of the last ten years. As late payment affects so many different types of business in different ways, no single survey gives a full picture of the impact of late payment on businesses. The three sources that we look to as an indicator of late payment are the SME finance monitor, the regular BACs survey and Experian’s late payment index. BACS data shows that small and medium businesses were owed a total of £26.8 billion as at June 2015, and the average small business is waiting for £31,900 in overdue payments.</p><p>The Government recognises that late payment remains an important issue for small businesses in the UK and is taking significant steps to assist small businesses to recover late payment debts. This is part of a package of measures to tackle late payment. We have also legislated for new transparency measures in the public and private sectors. Through the Enterprise Bill, currently before Parliament, we will legislate to establish a Small Business Commissioner to give general advice and to help small businesses resolve disputes relating to payment matters with larger businesses.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/03/2016 16:29:37 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan