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416828

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	Hitachi: Newton Aycliffe
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when the new Hitachi Trains factory at Newton Aycliffe will be (a) officially opened and (b) working at full capacity.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8716
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The Hitachi Train manufacturing facility at Newton Aycliffe was officially opened by the Prime Minister on 3rd September 2015. The facility has already employed over 100 staff, increasing to 400 by Easter 2016.　 The facility is ramping up for a November 2015 start and will go into full production next year on IEP trains.　 Production of the Abellio ScotRail trains will also commence at the facility in line with plans to enter service from late 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 16:22:51 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416829

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	First Great Western: Rolling Stock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where the new Inter City Express train sets for First Great Western will be (a) manufactured and (b) assembled.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8717
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The first IEP trains will be manufactured by Hitachi at their Kasado factory in Japan until production at Newton Aycliffe commences in autumn 2016. The remaining trains will be assembled at the Newton Aycliffe site.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 15:15:42 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416830

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	First Great Western: Rolling Stock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the timetable for the delivery of the first train for First Great Western of 25 May 2017 will be met.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The first IEPs will be delivered as planned from May 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 14:21:33 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416831

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	East Coast Main Line: Rolling Stock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, where the modification to include a buffet car in standard class of the IEP train sets for the East Coast line will be (a) manufactured and (b) assembled.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8719
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>Parts for the Virgin Trains East Coast line standard class buffet facilities will be manufactured in Germany and then installed at Newton Aycliffe. 72% of the parts, systems and operations sourced by Hitachi Rail Europe for the IEP have been purchased from UK-based businesses.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 15:12:17 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416832

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	East Coast Main Line: Rolling Stock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment has been made of the effect to the delivery timetable for IEP trains for the East Coast line of the modifications to include a buffet car in standard class.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2015 answer text <p>The inclusion of a standard class buffet facilities will be accommodated within the existing delivery schedule. Trains will enter passenger service on the East Coast Main Line as planned from 2018.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 09/09/2015 15:21:12 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

417191

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	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	Pregnancy: Discrimination
	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 potential tribunal claims for pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal were notified to Acas under the early conciliation scheme in 2014-15; and how many of those claims (i) were settled by conciliation by Acas, (ii) progressed to a tribunal claim and (iii) were not settled by conciliation by Acas but did not progress to a tribunal case.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	9119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">This information is not available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The total number of potential tribunal claims for pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal notified to Acas under the early conciliation scheme by individuals in 2014-15 was 1,851. Of these:</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 308 were settled by Acas at early conciliation stage and recorded on a COT3 settlement document;</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 545 progressed to a tribunal claim being taken, 264 of which were subsequently settled on an Acas COT3 following further conciliation;</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">· 998 were not settled through Acas, but did not progress to a tribunal case.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">An additional 18 notifications were made by employers. Seventeen of these were settled by Acas and the other was neither settled nor progressed to a tribunal.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government does not have data on the number of private settlements which settled claims before reaching a tribunal. The independently commissioned survey of early conciliation (a sample across all jurisdictions) found that 61 per cent of claimants (and their representatives) who did not settle but decided not to submit a tribunal claim reported that Acas was a factor in their decision.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Please note: (i) The jurisdictional provided to Acas is only indicative based on the information given by the prospective claimant; (ii) Counted individually there were a total of 1,882 notifications which means that a small number of claimants notified against more than one respondent.</ins></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 10/09/2015 16:40:49 question first ministerially corrected 14/09/2015 09:48:13 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles previous answer version 20420 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

417343

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service: Fees and Charges
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the introduction of employment tribunal fees on access to justice for women subjected to pregnancy-related detriment or dismissal by an employer; and what steps he plans to take to improve access to justice for such women.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	9118
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2015 answer text <p>On 11 June we announced the start of the post-implementation review of the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals. The review will seek to assess the effect fees have had including, so far as possible, any differential impact on people with protected characteristics and the types of case they bring.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 10/09/2015 16:58:05 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416833

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	East Coast Main Line: Rolling Stock
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the time taken for Hitachi to modify IEP trains for East Coast to include a buffet car in standard class.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2015 answer text <p>The IEP trains for Virgin East Coast Trains will be delivered with standard class buffet facilities within the existing delivery schedule. Trains will enter passenger service as planned from 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 11/09/2015 13:35:23 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416825

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	Minimum Wage: Underpayments
	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 employers have been issued with a Notice of Underpayment of the national minimum wage by HM Revenue and Customs in cases where the investigation began on or after 1 October 2013; how many of those employers have successfully appealed against being named and shamed; and how many such employers have been named and shamed to date.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has named 285 employers to date, and there have been 16 successful appeals. HMRC has issued 791 Notices of Underpayment (NoU) since 1 October 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The criteria on which appeals against naming are considered are that it would not be in the public interest, it would be a national security issue, or that the employer or their family would suffer personal harm.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Not all employers who are issued an NoU since 1 October 2013 will be named. Employers must have owed arrears of over £100. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) also only names employers who have paid back all of the arrears owed – if, following the issue of an NoU, the employer has yet to complete a schedule of payment of arrears to their workers, has challenged the NoU, or is being taken to court to recover arrears that remain unpaid, their details will not be passed to BIS for naming.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/09/2015 14:57:49 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

416826

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2015
	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	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, how many employers have taken advantage of the national minimum wage campaign announced on 30 July to self-report their non-compliance with the national minimum wage; how many workers have been identified as having been underpaid by these employers; and what the total sum is of underpayments involved.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	8859
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>The National Minimum Wage campaign launched on 29 July 2015. Information on the number of employers, workers covered and total arrears identified through the campaign will be made available when details for each voluntary disclosure have been finalised.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/09/2015 14:45:25 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens