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174649

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	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	Insolvency
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what factors the Insolvency Service takes into account when reviewing the fees it charges.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221389
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service sets its fees in accordance with HM Treasury’s ‘Managing Public Money’ principles which require that the standard approach is to set charges to recover the full costs of dealing with the cases it administers. The costs which must be taken into account are set out in the Managing Public Money Guidance published by HM Treasury.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The intention with insolvency fees is to ensure that those who benefit from the insolvency regime should be the ones to fund it, so that an efficient and fair insolvency regime can be provided. When reviewing fees, Ministers consider the impact of any changes on the different interests that might be affected through an Impact Assessment.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 26/01/2015 10:38:48 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

174651

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	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	Employment: Huddersfield
	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 create jobs in Huddersfield.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>Huddersfield benefits from the significant investment Government is making across Leeds City Region through their £573m Growth Deal, which will deliver at least 8,000 jobs and allow 1,000 new homes to be built by 2021. In particular, Huddersfield will benefit from an Advanced (Process) Manufacturing and Research Hub at Kirklees College which will be delivered as part of the Local Enterprise Partnership’s Skills Capital programme. The Government has committed a further £1bn to Growth Deals and will announce an extension to Leeds City Region Growth Deal shortly.</p><p><br>Huddersfield businesses have attracted £5.9m of Regional Growth Funding for 4 projects which are expected to create or safeguard 297 jobs and bring £21.4m of private investment to the area. Huddersfield and Kirklees businesses are also creating new jobs with the help of the Regional Growth Fund-supported Leeds City Region Business Grant programme. This programme is being boosted by the Growth Deal which will enable companies to access these grants for a further 3 years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 26/01/2015 12:04:21 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

174652

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2015
	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	Insolvency
	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 basis the Insolvency Service calculates the fees charged in cases of liquidation.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221371
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Official Receiver’s fees charged in compulsory liquidation cases are calculated in accordance with principles outlined in HM Treasury’s ‘Managing Public Money’ guidance which provides that the standard approach is to set charges to recover full costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Fees are set to reflect the average cost of the Official Receiver administering a case and are set out in secondary legislation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 26/01/2015 10:39:47 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

175210

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2015
	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	Insolvency
	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 direct the Insolvency Service to reduce its fees in cases of insolvency.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	221676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service is required to set its fees in line with the principles laid out in HM Treasury’s “Managing Public Money” guidance, which specify that charges should be set to recover full costs. This approach is intended to make sure that the government neither profits at the expense of consumers nor makes a loss for taxpayers to subside. Fees charged are set out in secondary legislation and are reviewed annually.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 26/01/2015 16:03:23 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176680

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens' Advice Bureaux
	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 people advised by Citizens Advice Bureaux in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) London, (d) Yorkshire, (e) Kirklees local authority area and (f) Huddersfield constituency in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222635
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Citizens Advice, the umbrella organisation for the bureaux service across England and Wales has not been able to provide reliable data on the number of unique clients advised over the past 10 years. Accurate electronic recording of data across the bureaux network has only been possible in the last 4 years, prior to which statistics were collected across the network either manually or in a variety of different data systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Citizens Advice has been able to provide data over the past 5 years on the number of issues clients have been advised on and these are set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England &amp; Wales</p></td><td><p>7,097,923</p></td><td><p>6,921,722</p></td><td><p>6,712,365</p></td><td><p>6,610,072</p></td><td><p>5,571,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>6,752,437</p></td><td><p>6,705,436</p></td><td><p>6,416,577</p></td><td><p>6,114,356</p></td><td><p>5,234,340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>662,289</p></td><td><p>657,195</p></td><td><p>601,964</p></td><td><p>610,452</p></td><td><p>537,960</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>621,175</p></td><td><p>581,913</p></td><td><p>568,618</p></td><td><p>644,455</p></td><td><p>488,998</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees LA</p></td><td><p>61,540</p></td><td><p>52,781</p></td><td><p>52,335</p></td><td><p>45,006</p></td><td><p>40,931</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huddersfield constituency</p></td><td><p>16,429</p></td><td><p>14,515</p></td><td><p>14,922</p></td><td><p>14,382</p></td><td><p>13,125</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/02/2015 14:33:25 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176682

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens Advice
	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 Citizens Advice Bureaux field offices which have (a) opened and (b) closed in (i) the UK, (ii) England, (iii) London, (iv) Yorkshire, (v) Kirklees local authority area and (vi) Huddersfield constituency in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222636
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold this information as central Government funds the umbrella organisation, Citizens Advice, but not individual bureaux.</p><p> </p><p>We have obtained the following information from Citizens Advice:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>a) Citizens Advice currently has 316 member bureaux (legal entities). This number fluctuates as bureaux merge to create more sustainable and efficient organisations, resulting in less being spent on back office functions and more on delivery. When bureaux close, every effort is made to expand resources within neighbouring bureaux to ensure services continue for local residents. Citizens Advice do not have details of new locations opened by year</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>b) Citizens Advice is only able to provide information on bureaux closures for 7 of the past 10 years. Details are set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2005-06</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2006-07</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England &amp; Wales</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p><strong>17</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees LA</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huddersfield constituency</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information for years 2007-08 and 2008-09 is not recorded. This is either because there were no bureau closures during that period, or because data has not been recorded in a way that can be deemed accurate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/02/2015 16:49:29 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176684

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens Advice
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding the Government has allocated to Citizens Advice in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222637
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) provides core Grant-in-Aid funding to Citizen Advice (CitA), the umbrella body for the bureaux service across England and Wales. Central Government <strong>does not</strong> provide funding directly to individual bureaux, core funding for these are usually provided by the local authority in which they are located.</p><p><br>In previous years BIS has also provided funding to Citizen Advice (CitA) under the Financial Inclusion Fund (for Face to Face Debt Advice project) – now delivered by Citizens Advice through bureaux under contract with the Money Advice Service; and under the additional Hours of Advice (AHA) Project - a one-off programme of funding to enable bureaux to extend their opening hours following the recession in Autumn 2008, funding for which ended March 2011.</p><p>Funding data can be found in the attached table.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/02/2015 16:57:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson attachment 1 file name bis-citizens-advice-funding.doc title BIS funding data for Citizens Advice
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176685

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens' Advice Bureaux
	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 people who have used Citizens Advice Bureaux in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) London, (d) Yorkshire, (e) Kirklees local authority area and (f) Huddersfield constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222638
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not hold this information. Citizens Advice has provided the information set out in the table below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Location</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2009-10</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England &amp; Wales</p></td><td><p>2,000,000</p></td><td><p>2,147,550</p></td><td><p>2,107,759</p></td><td><p>2,108,333</p></td><td><p>2,086,472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td rowspan="5"><p>No accurate</p><p>further</p><p>breakdown</p><p>of data</p><p>available</p></td><td><p>2,012,412</p></td><td><p>1,967,167</p></td><td><p>1,954,908</p></td><td><p>1,947,940</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>225,089</p></td><td><p>214,364</p></td><td><p>207,087</p></td><td><p>225,651</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>143,916</p></td><td><p>144,775</p></td><td><p>170,937</p></td><td><p>152,984</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kirklees LA</p></td><td><p>11,657</p></td><td><p>11,697</p></td><td><p>11,339</p></td><td><p>12,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Huddersfield constituency</p></td><td><p>3,185</p></td><td><p>3,353</p></td><td><p>3,225</p></td><td><p>3,688</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Overall the number of unique clients is declining due to the work undertaken to expand delivery through alternative channels; by phone and via the Adviceguide website.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Clients are demanding more access to the service via these alternative channels and Kirklees bureau is reacting to this change in demand patterns. Accurate electronic recording of data across the bureaux network has only been possible in the last 4 years, prior to which statistics were collected across the network either manually or in a variety of different data systems.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/02/2015 16:48:10 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176687

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens' Advice Bureaux
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received from the management, staff and volunteers of Citizens Advice Bureaux on the effectiveness of Citizens Advice.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Department has received a number of letters, mainly from MPs in response to issues raised by their constituents, but also from bureaux volunteers, staff and one trustee. Only on two occasions has that correspondence been about the effectiveness of the service in so far as that relates to a complaint about how an individual’s case was handled. The remaining correspondence has related to funding issues, both local authority funding, which provides core funding to bureaux, or centrally-government funded programmes such as the provision of debt advice and legal aid.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Set out in the table below is the total number of correspondence received to date:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. cases</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Subject</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Correspondence originator</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-2011</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>12</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p> </p><p>11 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1x CAB involvement in Big Society</p></td><td><p>5 x constituent</p><p>4 x bureaux manager</p><p>2 x bureaux trustee</p><p>1 x MP</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x local funding/funding of debt advice/Legal Aid</p><p>1 x Consumer Landscape reforms and effect on bureaux</p></td><td><p>3 x constituent</p><p>1 x volunteer</p><p> </p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>9</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>7 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x local funding/funding of debt advice/Legal Aid</p><p>1 x complaint about bureaux service</p></td><td><p>2 x volunteer</p><p>7 x constituent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013-14</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>4</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x local bureaux funding</p><p>1 x funding CAB, Shelter &amp; Age Concern</p><p>1 x complaint about bureaux service</p></td><td><p>4 x constituent</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014-15</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><p>2 x support for continued provision of free advice (supporting the “Advice for the Future” campaign)</p></td><td><p>2 x constituent</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 09/02/2015 09:20:33 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman

176689

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2015
	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	Citizens' Advice Bureaux
	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 effect of Citizens Advice Bureaux on their users' capability to repay debts.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	222640
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is not responsible for funding debt advice. Bureaux deliver face to face debt advice under a contract held between Citizens Advice and the Money Advice Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/02/2015 16:53:45 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman