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451154

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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: Closures
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 post offices are earmarked for closure in the next three years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26372
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Government’s funding arrangements for Post Office Limited require them to maintain a network that meets nationwide access criteria.</p><p>Within that framework, the provision of post offices is the operational responsibility of Post Office Limited. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the Chief Executive of Post Office Limited, to write to you on this matter. A copy of her reply will be placed in the libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 24/02/2016 17:08:52 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451155

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Game
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was to the UK economy of the game meat market in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	26373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Official statistics are not broken down in sufficient detail in order to separate the value added and employment attached to the processing and sale of game-meat from that of other meat or poultry products.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 23/02/2016 15:53:10 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451156

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24265, how much transitional funding has been allocated to meet costs deemed essential to the successful implementation of his Department's area reviews but which cannot be met locally.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Further details of the purpose and availability of the transitional funding facility will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 26264 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:02:58 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451157

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24265, what criteria colleges and post-16 educational institutions will have to meet in order to access the transitional funding facility allocated by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26264
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>Further details of the purpose and availability of the transitional funding facility will be available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 26270 question first answered 24/02/2016 15:02:58 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451158

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2016 to Question 24265, when he plans to (a) assess how many further education institutions are likely to incur financial penalties as a result of triggering break clauses in loan agreements they hold with banks resulting from his Department's area reviews and (b) publish such data.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26265
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-01-26/24265/" target="_blank">24265</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/02/2016 15:26:23 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

451160

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Minimum Wage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the amount of financial penalties was for non-compliance with national minimum wage (a) imposed on and (b) paid by each of the 92 employers who were named and shamed by his Department for such non-compliance on 5 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	26318
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>We do not publish details of penalties in individual cases. The employers named in the February 5th round were issued with a combined total of over £629,000 in penalties. To date, 84 of the 92 employers have paid penalties. The remaining 8 are being pursued by HM Revenue and Customs compliance officers.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 08/03/2016 14:54:28 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

451166

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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, what steps he is taking to reduce the burden of regulation on businesses.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	26212
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government is committed to cutting £10bn worth of red tape, as set out in the 2015 Conservative Manifesto, and will report on progress by June this year. We are putting forward proposals in the Enterprise Bill to systematically track for the first time the impact of regulators’ actions. This will drive savings through, for instance, simpler guidance, less paperwork and coordinated inspections. Through my department’s Cutting Red Tape programme, businesses are encouraged to report burdens and recommend sectors that Government may wish to review. There are currently seven reviews in progress: Energy; Care; Agriculture; Mineral Extraction; Waste; Anti-Money Laundering; and House Building.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/02/2016 17:33:01 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

451167

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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	Trade Promotion
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 he is taking to promote trade opportunities for UK businesses in high-growth markets.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	26214
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>Increasing exports, to all overseas markets, is a key factor in the Government’s long-term economic plan. Government departments are working together to support UK businesses looking to take advantage of overseas opportunities and to create a strong business environment that allows them to flourish both at home and overseas. A key part of this work is to identify export opportunities, many of which are based around the needs of high-growth and emerging markets.</p><p>This effort to drive economic growth is supported in part by the Prime Minister’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/trade-envoys" target="_blank">Trade Envoy Programme</a>, a group of appointed parliamentarians drawn from across the political spectrum. Envoys are carefully selected for their experience, skills and knowledge of particular sectors or markets, or their knowledge of business in an effort to identify substantial trade and investment opportunities. There are now 24 Trade Envoys covering 50 high-growth and emerging markets.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/02/2016 17:31:16 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

451168

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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: Floods
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what funds the Government is providing for businesses affected by flooding which did not have insurance.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	26199
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>I have made it clear to local councils and Local Enterprise Partnerships who are administering the Business Recovery Grant that they should look to provide funding to un-insured businesses so long as it is clear that this is not rewarding deliberate bad business practice. So where a flooded business has made a reasonable effort to secure insurance and not been successful they can be funded. We have provided £11m in total to provide support to businesses, allocated to local areas based on the number of flooded businesses.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/02/2016 17:32:26 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

451169

registered interest
date	08/02/2016
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: Mergers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2016 to Question 24499, what discussions his Department plans to have with banks on minimising the cost of loan and other penalties incurred by colleges which merge as part of area reviews.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	26224
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-01-26/24367/" target="_blank">24367</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/02/2016 14:49:28 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham