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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Shailesh Vara"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions under legislation prohibiting alcohol sales to intoxicated persons there have been in each year since 2010.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4036", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Luciana Berger"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Liverpool, Wavertree"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Luciana Berger"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156912", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156912/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Claims made by EU investors in third countries or vice versa may be made in a wide range of situations in which the UK government is not involved and about which it does not have access to relevant information.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4070", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Matt Hancock"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Matthew Hancock"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "EU External Trade: USA"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on what occasions have (a) EU companies seeking to trade in the US and (b) US companies seeking to trade in the EU claimed to have been discriminated against by the courts of the host nation in the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4062", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park"}
      }
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      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Zac Goldsmith"}
      ], "uin" : "215459"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156913", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156913/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Insolvency trade body, R3, commissioned research to try to measure the impact of the civil justice reforms on insolvency litigation. This research estimates that contingency fee arrangement backed insolvency litigation realises £150m-160m per annum.<\/p><p>When the exemption for insolvency proceedings was introduced in 2013 the impact assessment made the assumption that by April 2015 alternative funding arrangements would have been developed for insolvency cases. On that basis it was assumed there would be no major impact on the volume of insolvency cases which were pursued, or on the value of assets recovered in the long-run, although the risk of recoveries falling was acknowledged.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1513", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Swinson"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "East Dunbartonshire"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Swinson"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-27", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Insolvency"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect on financial redress for creditors from April 2015 of changes to funding of insolvency litigation in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3952", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Chesterfield"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Toby Perkins"}
      ], "uin" : "215424"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156914", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156914/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Details of Ministers\u2019 meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Information for April \u2013 June 2014 is due to be published soon.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4070", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Matt Hancock"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "West Suffolk"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Matthew Hancock"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-25T11:17:35.267Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Defence: Kuwait"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Kuwaiti defence companies in each of the last four years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4095", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Barclay"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North East Cambridgeshire"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Stephen Barclay"}
      ], "uin" : "215411"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156915", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156915/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Details of Ministers\u2019 meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Information for April \u2013 June 2014 is due to be published soon.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Details of meetings with officials are not held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4020", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for George Freeman"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Mid Norfolk"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "George Freeman"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-11-25T13:46:31.563Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Bayer"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what meetings (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have had with Bayer plc in the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3924", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Bolton South East"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Yasmin Qureshi"}
      ], "uin" : "215405"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156916", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156916/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Ministers are regularly in touch about matters in which they have a common interest.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The changes in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are not expected to have any impact on the c.1, 200 directors we disqualify every year as a result of actions brought by officials in The Insolvency Service.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1513", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Swinson"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Swinson"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Justice on the effect of the changes to insolvency litigation in the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 on the Government's ability to tackle director misconduct.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3952", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Chesterfield"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Toby Perkins"}
      ], "uin" : "215435"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156917", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156917/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The Post Office card account is a matter for the Department for Work and Pensions. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not have a role in commercial negotiations between other Departments and Post Office Ltd.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Post Office Ltd and the Department for Work and Pensions are currently discussing the future of the Post Office card account and an announcement will be made when these discussions are concluded.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1513", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jo Swinson"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jo Swinson"}
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      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Post Office Card Account"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the future of the Post Office card account after March 2015.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3953", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jason McCartney"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Colne Valley"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jason McCartney"}
      ], "uin" : "215421"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156918", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156918/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Details of Ministers\u2019 meetings with external organisations are published quarterly on the Gov.uk website:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p><a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_type=transparency-data<\/a><\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Information for April \u2013 June 2014 is due to be published soon.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4070", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Matt Hancock"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "West Suffolk"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Matthew Hancock"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-11-25", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-11-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Defence: Qatar"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will list all meetings between Ministers in his Department and representatives of Qatari defence companies in each of the last four years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4095", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Steve Barclay"}
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      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North East Cambridgeshire"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Stephen Barclay"}
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    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156919", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/156919/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Ministers and officials meet intermittently with representatives of UK postal companies, though there have not been any recent representations from such operators specifically on the issue of delivering mail in urban areas of the country.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Under the Postal Services Act 2011, Parliament gave Ofcom as an experienced and independent regulator the primary statutory duty to secure the provision of the universal service to all addresses \u2013 urban and rural \u2013 in the UK. Ofcom maintains an ongoing monitoring regime which tracks Royal Mail\u2019s performance and any actual or potential market impacts on the provision of the universal service. Ofcom has said that their own evidence clearly shows that the service is not currently under threat.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Ofcom has been reviewing the case which Royal Mail has been making about the potential impact of competition on their ability to provide that service and is expected to make a statement very shortly. More information about Ofcom\u2019s regulatory regime can be found on its website (<a href=\"http://www.ofcom.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ofcom.org.uk/<\/a>).<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The BIS Select Committee is currently carrying out an inquiry into postal competition in the UK and postal operators have recently submitted their evidence on market competition to inform the inquiry. Copies of written submissions can be found on Parliament\u2019s website (<a href=\"http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/inquiries/parliament-2010/competition-in-the-uk-postal-sector-/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/business-innovation-and-skills/inquiries/parliament-2010/competition-in-the-uk-postal-sector-/?type=Written#pnlPublicationFilter<\/a>).<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received form private sector mail delivery companies on delivering mail in urban areas of the UK; and what assessment he has made of the effect of such proposals on the Royal Mail's ability to deliver Universal Service Provision in rural areas.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Statement of 7 April 2014 on higher education student support: changes to Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA), what assessment he has made of the effect of the changes announced in that statement on (a) the level of non-medical support given to students in higher education and (b) decision by disabled students to enter or remain in higher education.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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