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166674

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
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	Annual Reports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support he is giving to UK-registered businesses to encourage reporting on an integrated reporting basis; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	216427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>I consulted extensively on changes to the reporting framework in 2013 and impact assessments, showing the costs and benefits, were published.</p><p> </p><p>Initial indications are that the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 regulations, which are one form of integrated reporting, have made a positive impact and will help shareholders in their role as stewards of the companies they own.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, good reporting should prevail regardless of the approach but there is nothing in regulation that prevents a company taking a different integrated approach to its reporting should it choose to.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 216430 question first answered 05/12/2014 14:18:09 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

166675

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
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	Warships: Export Controls
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 export licences his Department has issued for the supply of military equipment for incorporation into the Vladivostok Mistral-class amphibious assault ship.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	216432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2014 answer text <p>Eleven licences were granted for the supply of military equipment for incorporation into a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship. The goods licences were granted for as follows:</p><p> </p><p>components for military communications equipment, military communications equipment, software for military communications equipment, technology for military communications equipment, components for military auxiliary/support vessels, technology for military auxiliary/support vessels, components for military guidance/navigation equipment, equipment for the use of military guidance/navigation equipment, components for combat naval vessels, components for military radars, general naval vessel components.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is not clear whether the components were for the Vladivostok, or the second Mistral-class amphibious assault ship being built in France on behalf of the Russian Navy.</p><p> </p><p>Granting of licenses has been suspended.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/12/2014 15:32:16 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

166676

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
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: Annual Reports
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 potential benefits to shareholders of integrated reporting; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Mid Sussex
tabling member printed	Sir Nicholas Soames
uin	216430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>I consulted extensively on changes to the reporting framework in 2013 and impact assessments, showing the costs and benefits, were published.</p><p> </p><p>Initial indications are that the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013 regulations, which are one form of integrated reporting, have made a positive impact and will help shareholders in their role as stewards of the companies they own.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ultimately, good reporting should prevail regardless of the approach but there is nothing in regulation that prevents a company taking a different integrated approach to its reporting should it choose to.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson grouped question UIN 216427 question first answered 05/12/2014 14:18:09 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	116 label Biography information for Lord Soames of Fletching

166677

registered interest
date	28/11/2014
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	Post Offices: East of England
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 sub-post office branches have closed in each local authority area in the East of England in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
uin	216452
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2014 answer text <p>The Post Office is managed by Post Office Ltd, which operates independently of Government. As the information requested is an operational matter for Post Office Ltd, I have asked Paula Vennells, Chief Executive Officer of Post Office Ltd, to reply to the hon. Member directly, and a copy will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It is, however, worth noting that in November 2010 published its policy statement, “Securing the Post Office network in the digital age”, which made clear commitments to end the programmes of branch closure of the previous administration, and to instead invest in maintaining and modernising a network of at least 11,500 branches that meets strict access criteria that see, for example, 99.7% of the population nationally living within three miles of a post office outlet.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 05/12/2014 13:16:17 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

166221

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
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 Grocery Code Adjudicator has (a) launched an investigation, (b) recommended enforcement measures and (c) made a recommendation to the Office of Fair Trading that the Code should be changed since publication of the Adjudicator's 2013-14 annual report.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216177
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is an independent regulator established under the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am not aware that the Adjudicator has exercised any of these regulatory functions since the publication of her Annual Report for 2013 – 2014 on 22 July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:51:30 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166222

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
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 he holds on the average time taken by the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to deal with correspondence received from stakeholders.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Correspondence from stakeholders is an operation matter for the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, which is an independent statutory regulator established by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not therefore hold the requested information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:52:53 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166223

registered interest
date	26/11/2014
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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
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 staff are employed by the Grocery Code Adjudicator.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	216179
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is a corporation sole created by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013. Consequently, the Adjudicator does not directly employ any staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The office of the Adjudicator is staffed by public sector employees as provided for by Schedule 1 to the 2013 Act. There are currently four staff seconded to the office of the Adjudicator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:54:08 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

156476

registered interest
date	18/11/2014
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	Apprentices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures they are putting in place to increase the proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises which take on apprentices.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL2918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2014 answer text <p>The Apprenticeship Grant for Employers provides £1,500 to help smaller employers recruit a new apprentice aged 16 to 24. We have made £170m additional funding available over 2014-16 financial years to fund over 100,000 additional incentive payments. Provisional figures show that between Feb 2012 and July 2014 there were 95,200 apprenticeship starts for which a payment was made through the AGE Grant. A further 8,200 were in the pipeline (started but not yet paid).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeship reforms are putting employers in the lead of designing apprenticeships, making it easier and more attractive for them to offer more in the future. Funding reforms will also provide a financial incentive to support smaller businesses taking on an apprentice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 01/12/2014 12:03:03 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey