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174647

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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if his Department will undertake a review of the use of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme in response to the review announced by the Royal Bank of Scotland of its own practices relating to that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Delyn
tabling member printed	Mr David Hanson
uin	221411
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 20 January 2015 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-01-15/220931/" target="_blank">220931</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:13:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	533 label Biography information for David Hanson

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

174650

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, how regularly the Insolvency Service reviews its fees.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	221391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2015 answer text <p>The Insolvency Service reviews its fees and charges annually. The Insolvency Service is required to set fees to ensure full cost recovery. The last fee increases were made in April 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 26/01/2015 10:37:48 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

174653

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	Land: Wales
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 and what proportion of land was registered in Wales in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	221369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is provided in the table below. Data for Wales has only been collected since September 2005. In addition, total area figures shown for 2006 and 2007 are lower than the rest and this is due to an issue encountered with the Powys Administrative Area where the data was not being stored. The remaining years are correctly shown and include Powys.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total area, ha</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Registered freehold, ha</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Registered</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Not registered</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - Sep 2005</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>879,153</p></td><td><p>41.42%</p></td><td><p>58.58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2006*</strong></p></td><td><p>1,602,838</p></td><td><p>789,231</p></td><td><p>49.24%</p></td><td><p>50.76%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2007*</strong></p></td><td><p>1,602,838</p></td><td><p>874,775</p></td><td><p>54.58%</p></td><td><p>45.42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2008</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,229,649</p></td><td><p>57.94%</p></td><td><p>42.06%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2009</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,329,394</p></td><td><p>62.63%</p></td><td><p>37.37%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2010</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,418,316</p></td><td><p>66.82%</p></td><td><p>33.18%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2011</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,494,752</p></td><td><p>70.43%</p></td><td><p>29.57%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2012</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,541,732</p></td><td><p>72.64%</p></td><td><p>27.36%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2013</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,591,521</p></td><td><p>74.99%</p></td><td><p>25.01%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total - 31 March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>2,122,453</p></td><td><p>1,653,802</p></td><td><p>77.92%</p></td><td><p>22.08%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>*Figures do not include Powys</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 15:03:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

174655

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	Fossil Fuels: Research
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 research and development funding has been directed towards the oil and gas sector since 2010; and what proportion that is of all UK research and development funding in that period.
tabling member constituency	Angus
tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
uin	221347
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2015 answer text <p>The latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics for expenditure on research and development performed in business enterprises (BERD) can be found here: <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_385959.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_385959.pdf</a>.</p><p>Relevant data extracted from this report on expenditure on R&amp;D performed in the extractive industries product group over 2010 - 2013 is given in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BERD expenditure on R&amp;D in extractive industries</p><p>product group (£m)</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>194</p></td><td><p>215</p></td><td><p>225</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>% of total BERD expenditure on R&amp;D in extractive industries</p><p>product group</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>1.1</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 27/01/2015 14:53:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

174657

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	Higher Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding for (a) University Centre Shrewsbury and (b) other new universities.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	221294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>Ministershave discussed projects that Local Enterprise Partnerships have submitted for the £1 billion expansion of Growth Deals announced at Autumn Statement, including the proposal for the Marches LEP for the University Centre Shrewsbury.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I was pleased to have the opportunity to meet with my hon. Friend and the Leader of Shropshire Council, when I visited Harper Adams University, Shropshire, earlier this month.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/02/2015 11:50:11 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

174658

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	Higher Education
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 his Department has made of the economic benefit of universities to the region in which they are located.
tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
uin	221295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2015 answer text <p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England published data on their website in October last year which explores the link between economic growth and higher education provision. This includes information on employment levels, higher education qualifications and graduate mobility. Universities UK have also produced a series of reports which examine the higher education sector’s contribution to the UK economy (“The impact of universities on the UK economy), with the most recent publication in 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/02/2015 11:17:15 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

174666

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	Business: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress the Government has made on supporting businesses.
tabling member constituency	Congleton
tabling member printed	Fiona Bruce
uin	221326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills provides support to businesses across a wide variety of policy areas, and progress continues to be made across each of these.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through industrial strategy, the whole of government is taking a long-term strategic approach to working in partnership with businesses to increase global competitiveness, support innovation and maximise export potential.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>99.9% of UK businesses are small and medium sized businesses so we are taking specific steps to help them, and they are reaping the benefits.</p><p> </p><p>The right tax environment is vital to help businesses flourish so we have cut the main rate of Corporation Tax from 28% to 21% and announced further cuts to 20% by 2015 – the joint lowest rate in the G20 major economies. We have also helped businesses with the cost of hiring staff by introducing a new Employer Allowance which cuts £2,000 from the National Insurance bills of small firms.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>More businesses are getting access to the finance they need to start up and grow with Start-Up Loans offered to over 25,000 businesses; so far lending over £129 million. The British Business Bank has facilitated £890m of new lending and investment to over 21,000 small businesses in the year to the end of September 2014. And we have facilitated over £1.67 billion of lending to over 16,000 small businesses since May 2010, through our Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have brought together all Government advice and support in one place at GREATbusiness.gov.uk, where the ‘My Business Support Tool’ helps businesses find the support they need quickly, and businesses can speak to or webchat with a helpline adviser direct using the Business Support helpline. Businesses can also access our new Business Growth Service on the website, which brings together expert advice to improve and grow in one place, including GrowthAccelerator, the Manufacturing Advisory Service, and export advice and finance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Small businesses have less regulation to follow with a £10 billion cumulative net saving to businesses as a result of our deregulation work. Through the Red Tape Challenge, we have reviewed over 5,600 regulations and identified 3,000 to scrap or improve. We are on track to surpass our target of saving business £850 million per year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, around 48,000 businesses have been helped by our UK Trade and Investment support – of which 90% were small businesses. This support helped generate additional sales of over £49 billion and created or safeguarded over 220,000 jobs over the last year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 28/01/2015 15:20:49 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3958 label Biography information for Fiona Bruce