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475567

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2016
	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	National Graphene Institute: Intellectual Property and 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 protect intellectual property rights and research being conducted at Manchester University's National Graphene Institute.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	31170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The UK has one of the most innovative economies and the best IP environment in the world. The Intellectual Property Office offers guidance to all Universities on how to manage and protect their IP assets. In addition, the Government provides a framework and guidance on information security for organisations including universities. Universities are independent and autonomous institutions and it is a matter for individual institutions to determine how they apply guidance.</p><p> </p><p>Government wants to increase university income from collaboration and commercialisation to £5bn by 2025. The University of Manchester is one of the world’s most successful universities in this respect, working with over 40 partners at the forefront of the graphene revolution.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 17:52:46 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 52568 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

173037

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2015
	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	Teachers: Surveys
	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 average response rate of initial teacher training students trained in universities to the National Student Survey was in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220372
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2015 answer text <p>The average National Student Survey response rates from students on initial teacher training courses in English higher education institutions are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>National Student Survey Response Rate (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>68.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>71.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>72.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>73.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>78.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Note: The data includes only those students that are fundable by the National College of Teaching and Learning.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 19/01/2015 15:06:41 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 38729 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

172740

	registered interest
	date	08/01/2015
	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	Teachers: Training
	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 from universities about the future viability of Initial Teacher Training courses and university education departments.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	220155
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>I have been contacted recently by three universities regarding the provision of initial Teacher Training.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 26/01/2015 10:41:37 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 38271 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470338

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	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: 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 businesses in each (a) parliamentary constituency, (b) local authority area and (c) Government Office region received funding under the (i) Enterprise Finance Guarantee, (ii) Working Capital and (iii) British Business Bank in each year during which those schemes have been in existence.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	30981
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Since the launch on 14 January 2009 of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, 29,092 loans have been offered with a value of over £3 billion. With regard to Working Capital support, 47 companies have also received support through UK Export Finance’s Export Working Capital product, enabling over £250 million of export contracts to take place</p><p> </p><p>The British Business Bank was formally created in November 2014. Its programmes are currently supporting £2.5 billion of finance to over 44,000 smaller businesses, and participating in a further £3.6 billion of finance to small mid-cap businesses.</p><p> </p><p>Where it has been possible to provide the data in the format requested this has been included in the attached tables.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:30:36 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name Attachment to 30981 - Regional totals.docx title Regional Totals previous answer version 52036 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470340

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	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	Export Credit Guarantees: Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions the Export Credits Guarantee Department has reported allegations of bribery and corruption to (a) the Serious Fraud Office and (b) other agencies in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	30982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>During this period no allegations of bribery and corruption have been disclosed to UK Export Finance (the operating name of the Export Credits Guarantee Department) that were not already in the public domain. Accordingly, the Department has not referred any allegations of bribery or corruption to the Serious Fraud Office, or other similar agencies, over that period.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:42:28 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 52037 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

470341

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2016
	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: EU Countries
	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 inward investment projects originating from other EU member states have been established in each region and constituent part of the UK for each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	30983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown of all successful inward investment projects recorded from EU countries in each region and constituent part of the UK during the 2010/11 - 2014/15 period. These are based on estimates made by UK Trade and Investment.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Region</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Foreign Direct Investment Projects originating from the EU</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>117</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>132</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>89</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>153</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>281</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>129</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UK Wide</p></td><td><p>24</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>228</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire &amp; The Humber</p></td><td><p>157</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>96</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland</p></td><td><p>86</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2,612</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: UKTI internal database. Note: Based on UKTI’s estimates of successful inward investment projects originating from </em><em>27 EU member countries into</em><em> the UK </em><em>regions </em><em>at the time of announcement of investment projects during each of the reporting period between 2010/11 to 2014/15. </em></p><p><em> </em></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 21/03/2016 15:39:49 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 52038 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

446979

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2016
	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	Green Investment Bank: Privatisation
	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 place in the Library any document which provide an evidential basis for the Government's decision to privatise the Green Investment Bank.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	23730
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2016 answer text The background to the Government’s decision to introduce private capital into the Green Investment Bank (GIB) can be found in the policy document entitled “Future of the Green Investment Bank plc” that was published on 18 November on GOV.UK. In addition to this, the Government has also introduced provisions to the Enterprise Bill which require a report to be laid before Parliament once a decision to undertake a sale has been made. The report must set out the type of sale, the expected timescale, and the Government’s objectives for the sale. answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 27/01/2016 17:09:08 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

422522

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	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	Caparo Industries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he was first made aware of the fact that Caparo Industries was facing significant difficulties and was likely to enter administration.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	12689
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2015 answer text <p>We received confirmation of these developments when PwC announced on 19<sup>th</sup> October 2015 that a team of Administrators, partners and directors from PwC had been appointed Joint Administrators over certain companies within the Caparo Industries group.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/10/2015 12:11:46 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

422521

	registered interest
	date	20/10/2015
	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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
	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 cost of (a) fully mothballing the SSI Steel site in Redcar and (b) safely cleaning up the site to prepare it for redevelopment.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	12688
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>We know the SSI Redcar plant lost over £600 million in over three years. When the company went into liquidation, the Official Receiver bought supplies to keep certain operations, such as the coke ovens, going in the hope of finding a commercial buyer.</p><br /><p>Unfortunately, no commercial buyer could be found to maintain operations at the plant. While this was deeply disappointing, with such large losses and debts, and the price of steel produced at SSI expected to stay depressed for some considerable time, it was perhaps not surprising.</p><br /><p>It is too early to say what the costs of preparing the site for redevelopment will be. This will depend on the state the site is left in following liquidation, the future use of the site and any private sector interest in it, which could generate value to offset redevelopment costs.</p><br /><p>The Government is providing the Official Receiver with the funds and support necessary to deliver a safe liquidation of SSI.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 26/10/2015 17:28:27 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

438120

	registered interest
	date	14/12/2015
	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	Business: Advisory Services
	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 make an assessment of the potential effect on the Northern powerhouse of the closure of the Business Growth Service.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
	tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
	uin	20050
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2015 answer text <p>We do not expect closure of the Business Growth Service to have an impact on the growth of Small and Medium sized Enterprises or the Northern Powerhouse.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 20051 question first answered 17/12/2015 11:53:45 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan