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427434

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Crown Prosecution Service: Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 22 October 2015 to Question 12365, what savings have resulted from the police-led prosecution initiative in each year since 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	15710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>The police-led prosecution initiative has led to a significant reduction in motoring offences prosecuted by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in magistrate courts, as the following figures indicate:</p><p>Motoring offence cases finalised in the Magistrates Court</p><p>2012-13: 229,875</p><p>2013-14: 171,517</p><p>2014-15: 112,955</p><br /><p>While the reduction has led to a fall in expenditure on these low-level cases, the overall effect on CPS budgets has been cost-neutral. A high proportion of these cases are dealt with as summary first-time guilty pleas, in which the Court requires the defendant to pay the prosecution costs as part of any financial penalty. Therefore, whilst the CPS has benefitted from a reduction in expenditure, it has foregone the receipt of cost awards that are routinely made in motoring offence cases, as these awards are now payable to the police.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 19/11/2015 10:58:40 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

427436

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Further Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to maintain the current level of skills funding for 16 to 18 year olds up to May 2020.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	15729
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>Decisions about how 16-19 institutions will be funded in the academic year 2016/17 and beyond will be subject to the outcome of the spending review, which will set the budget for education and other public spending for the coming years.</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 18/11/2015 17:05:54 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

427438

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Overseas Students
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 contribution international students studying in the UK make to British soft power overseas; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
uin	15732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>The presence of international students in the UK, and UK students going overseas, helps build relationships and understanding which have life-long effects. There is no limit on the number of bona fide overseas students able to study in the UK, and the UK is the second most popular destination for international students after the USA.</p><p>The wider benefit to the UK of international students was considered in a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills research paper which highlighted the value of alumni becoming informal ambassadors for the UK, with the benefits increasing as they become more influential in their home country. Research by the British Council suggests that the average level of trust in the UK is 16% higher amongst those who had participated in cultural relations activities such as education.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/11/2015 12:05:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

427458

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what level of spending will be required from (a) the Government, (b) other public sector bodies and (c) private employers to create three million quality apprenticeships by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	15786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The budget for apprenticeships in England is demand-led and the level of spending responds to local employer and learner demand. Apprenticeships are jobs with training – availability is determined by employers offering opportunities.</p><br /><p>The Government is introducing a UK-wide levy for all larger employers in the public and private sector to help fund the increase in quantity and quality of apprenticeship training. This levy will put employers in charge of how apprenticeship budgets are spent by creating a fund which they can use to pay for the cost of external training for their apprentices.</p><br /><p>Further details on the rate and scope of the levy will be set out by my Rt hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the autumn Spending Review.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/11/2015 11:32:13 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

427460

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Infrastructure: Easington
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much the Government spent on each infrastructure project in Easington constituency in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	15769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. More than 100 infrastructure schemes have been delivered in the North East since 2010. There are 27 projects and programmes in the National Infrastructure Pipeline (published July 2015) with a total capital value of £5 billion, as well as cross-regional and UK-wide projects and programmes.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 16/11/2015 16:01:36 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

427462

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Further 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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing three-year funding plans for further education colleges.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Joan Ryan
uin	15809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>Any changes to funding of colleges will need to be seen in the wider context of other reforms. Fixing the foundations: creating a more prosperous nation set out our plans to increase local influence over further education (FE) and skill funding. We shall announce further reform to FE and skills funding systems following the spending review.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/11/2015 15:56:57 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	166 label Biography information for Joan Ryan

427464

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to publish the report of the Cutting Red Tape programme.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	15840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Cutting Red Tape programme has completed the evidence gathering stage for the six reviews launched earlier this year. The programme is now working with the responsible departments and regulators to understand the scale of potential savings, and to support them in developing next steps which respond to the findings of the reviews. The Government’s next steps will be to publish the review findings and associated responses in the New Year.</p><p>The programme is also running an open call for evidence for future reviews via its Twitter account @CutRedTapeUK and #CutRedTape, and its website <a href="https://cutting-red-tape.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://cutting-red-tape.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/</a></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 16/11/2015 11:27:52 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

427466

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Health Services: Trade Union Officials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what account was taken of the results of the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Survey on workplace union representatives in the healthcare sector in bringing forward proposals to cap union facility time in the Trade Union Bill.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	15794
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2015 answer text <p>There are no current proposals to cap facility time. The reserve powers in the Trade Union Bill, which allow Ministers to set a cap on the time and money spent on facility time, would be used only as a last resort.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 19/11/2015 12:04:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

427468

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	ICT: Skilled Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of whether the UK has enough qualified IT specialists to meet the IT requirements of businesses in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent North
tabling member printed	Ruth Smeeth
uin	15945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to addressing the rising demand for IT specialists and creating a strong digital skills talent pool. Action is being taken across education and training, from the introduction of the new school computing curriculum, to a range of new employer designed apprenticeship standards for digital roles, and the innovative digital degree apprenticeships that started in September.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/11/2015 14:36:24 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4508 label Biography information for Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent

427471

registered interest
date	10/11/2015
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	Overseas Companies: Ethics
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department plans to include measures as part of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights to promote ethical practices of UK businesses operating abroad.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	15924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The National Action Plan, to implement the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs) on Business and Human Rights, was published on GOV.UK on 4<sup>th</sup> September 2013. This sets out the Government’s expectation of UK businesses to respect human rights wherever they operate.</p><p>We continue to update our action plan, reflecting the progress we have made as well as covering other related action taking place across Government such as the Modern Slavery Act.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/12/2015 09:46:18 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins