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100092

registered interest
date	21/10/2014
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	Zero Hours Contracts
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 help workers on zero hours contracts who desire regular, contracted employment.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	211362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>Under the Flexible Working Regulations, brought in on 30 June, all employees with 26 continuous weeks of service have the right to request flexible working from their employer. Individuals on zero hours contracts, who are employees, can request a change in their contracts, which could also include a request to move to a fixed hours contract.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 27/10/2014 14:48:39 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

79521

registered interest
date	22/07/2014
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	Statutory Instruments
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.
tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
uin	HL1420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has laid 71 statutory instruments<strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong>(SI’s) in this year to date. The table below shows those that have been identified as</p><p> </p><p>correcting errors in previous SI’s and the SI’s corrected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The legal advisers in the Department for Business have this year reviewed and refreshed</p><p> </p><p>both the processes for the checking of SI’s and the training given to lawyers on drafting</p><p> </p><p>SI’s. This should reduce the incidence of drafting errors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Copyright and Duration of Rights in Performances (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/434]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2013/1782</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2014 [2014/578]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2007/3291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) (No 3) 2014 [2014/787]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2014/271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2014 [2014/891]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2003/1592</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Copyright (Regulation of Relevant Licensing Bodies) Regulations 2014[2014/898]</p></td><td><p>Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 5 February and published on 10 February</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/1771]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2013/3113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Convention on Internal Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on matters specific to Aircraft Equipment) Order 2014 [2014/1885]</p></td><td><p>Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 11 March and published on 13 March</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table does not include drafts of affirmative instruments which were superseded by a further draft in identical form by reason of affirmative resolutions not having been obtained before the end of the 2013-2014 Parliamentary session and the identical draft being laid in the 2014-2015 session.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/08/2014 12:46:50 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

60882

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
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	Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consideration his Department gives to the diversity policies and records of businesses or other organisations when considering their bid for commercial contracts or grants.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) on 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 434W.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 17/06/2014 16:48:56 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

60883

registered interest
date	10/06/2014
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	Equality
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what targets his Department has for increasing diversity; and what progress has been made on meeting those targets in the last year.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	199918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Francis Maude) on 16 June 2014, Official Report, column 434W.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 17/06/2014 16:51:18 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

57860

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
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	Zero Hours Contracts
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 his Department holds on the number of zero-hours contracts in the UK which bar any additional employment.
tabling member constituency	Esher and Walton
tabling member printed	Mr Dominic Raab
uin	198782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has not collected any quantitative information on the number of zero-hours contracts in the UK which bar any additional employment. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggested, in its report <em>Zero Hours Contracts: Myth and reality</em> that 9% of workers on zero hours contracts reported that they were never allowed to work for another employer when their primary employer had no work for them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/06/2014 15:53:07 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab