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169064

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date	09/12/2014
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	Private Equity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements for companies owned or substantially owned by private equity funds.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3554
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>Measures to create a central, public register of people with significant control over UK companies are contained within the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. Where a private equity fund owns more than 25% of a UK company’s shares or voting rights – or otherwise exercises significant control over that company - the company will need to disclose information on the control of the fund in line with the requirements in Schedule 3 of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements on such companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169065

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Private Equity
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have received any representations from investors in private equity funds on the increase in fees paid by portfolio companies to the operators of the funds and not to the funds where investors would benefit.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3555
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Treasury Ministers and officials receive regular correspondence on a wide range of issues. We cannot disclose details of specific representations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 19/12/2014 12:51:19 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169066

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
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	Counterfeit Manufacturing
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the performance of Trading Standards in the United Kingdom in securing convictions for (1) the production, (2) the sale, (3) the distribution, and (4) the importation of counterfeit goods.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3556
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2014 answer text <p>Trading Standards services, including tackling counterfeit goods, are provided by local authorities. Local authorities operate independently from central government and are accountable to their own electorate, allocating resources according to local priorities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local authorities do not report regulatory outputs to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Therefore, the Department does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 19/12/2014 13:13:17 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

169067

registered interest
date	09/12/2014
answering body	Department for International Development
answering dept id	20
answering dept short name	International Development
answering dept sort name	International Development
hansard heading	Jordan
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any additional plans to provide further support to the government of Jordan to assist with displaced Syrian refugees.
tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
uin	HL3557
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>By the end of March 2015, the UK will have provided almost £220 million of assistance to Jordan since the start of the Syria crisis. In 2014/15, UKAid spending in Jordan is forecast to be around £66 million. Since the onset of the Syria crisis the UK has committed £700 million for humanitarian activities in Syria and neighbouring states. This includes £82 million to date in support of UNICEF’s ‘No Lost Generation’ initiative, which provides protection, trauma care and education for children affected by the crisis.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Northover question first answered 18/12/2014 12:46:31 answering member 2539 label Biography information for Baroness Northover
tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn