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99773

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date	20/10/2014
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	Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's latest internal guidance for officials on the drafting of answers to parliamentary questions.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	211071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>A copy of the Department’s internal guidance will be placed in the Libraries of the House.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Office of the Leader of the House also provides guidance to all Departments on the practice of answering Parliamentary Questions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full Guide is available on the gov.uk website at: http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-parliamentary-work.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A copy of this guidance has already been placed in the libraries of the House. The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons intends to review the Guide to Parliamentary Work in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 27/10/2014 14:36:52 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson attachment 1 file name mpst-WrittenPQs - 211071 attachment.doc title Parliamentary Unit Process and Guidance
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

76240

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Money Lenders
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 investigations of illegal money lenders have been carried out by illegal lending units in England, Scotland and Wales in each of the last five years; and how many such investigations have resulted in criminal convictions.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204420
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Below is a breakdown of the number of investigations conducted and convictions obtained by the Illegal Money Lending Teams in Scotland and Wales in each of the last five years, and in England for the last three years.</p><p>The England Illegal Money Lending Team was created in April 2011. Equivalent information is not available relating to the regional teams which existed prior to this.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Investigations</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Convictions</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p>399</p></td><td><p>39</p></td><td><p>28</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p>522</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>34</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p>460</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>17</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>46</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009/10</strong></p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>Data not available</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Illegal Money Lending Teams conduct complex and sensitive investigations. The length of each investigation will be influenced by the circumstances of the specific case. In some instances convictions can only be delivered through months of proactive intelligence gathering and community engagement. Because of this, some cases span multiple years and so there is not necessarily a direct link between the numbers of investigations and the numbers of convictions in any one year.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 14:27:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

76447

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish the names of people who have taken multiple cases against different employers to an employment tribunal.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	204454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>Government has no plans to change legislation to bring in a register of employees that take their employer to a tribunal, or of private settlements.</p><p>Employment tribunals are independent judicial bodies and, in line with the principle of judicial independence, Government cannot comment on, or intervene in, the tribunal's handling of individual cases or any decisions made.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 15/07/2014 15:49:50 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

64403

registered interest
date	26/06/2014
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	Prisons: 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, how many prisoners have completed university degrees inside prison in each of the last 10 years; and what the cost to the public purse was of that education.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	202785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Most prisoners who study higher education (HE) in custody do so through the Open University (OU). The table below shows the number of prisoners in England who have completed OU degrees whilst in prison from academic year 2003/04. Prior to September 2012, the costs of prisoners' tuition were met from public funds in an arrangement that broadly mirrored the grant arrangements for other part-time HE students. The OU's additional costs for delivering in custody are met through a grant from the Department. We do not have information on the public funding for these specific learners. From September 2012, prisoners have been required to take out, and then repay, tuition fee loans in the same way as other learners.</p><p><strong>Number of prisoners completing Open University degrees in prisons from 2003/04</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Award Year (academic year)</p></td><td><p>Total number of prisoners</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td><p><em>4</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td><p><em>10</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td><p><em>14</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p><em>10</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p><em>11</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p><em>22</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p><em>19</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p><em>23</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p><em>26</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p><em>16</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong><em>155</em></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England only</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Information supplied by the Open University</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 07/07/2014 15:35:08 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies