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515202

registered interest
date	25/04/2016
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	Helicopters
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on safeguarding the future of the UK helicopter industry.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	35235
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>We are working with the UK aerospace industry to sustain and grow helicopter capability through the Aerospace Growth Partnership and the Defence Growth Partnership, both of which bring Government and industry together to tackle barriers to growth, boost exports and grow high value jobs.</p><p>Through this work we are supporting the industry’s private investment in technology, competitiveness, productivity, manufacturing capability and skills. For example, we have supported Finmeccanica Helicopters’ investment in new civil helicopter capability at Yeovil, safeguarding employment through diversification into the growing civil aerospace market. In addition, we are co-investing with industry in collaborative R&amp;D projects led by Finmeccanica Helicopters and Airbus Helicopters on new technologies including advanced rotor blades and lightweight structures.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 28/04/2016 14:14:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

514928

registered interest
date	22/04/2016
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	Defence: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Defence on ensuring that Ministry of Defence contracts with suppliers and manufacturers benefit the UK economy.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	35183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has regular discussions with my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Defence on a wide variety of issues. My department supports the Government’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), published last November, which set out the Government’s commitment to get the best value for money for the taxpayer in a way that strengthens our economy and bolsters the long-term prosperity of people across the UK. The SDSR committed the Government to refreshing its defence industrial policy and taking further action to help the UK’s defence industry grow and compete successfully and my department is engaging MOD on taking this work forward.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 27/04/2016 15:27:49 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

514929

registered interest
date	22/04/2016
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	Aerospace Industry: South West
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 sustain aerospace engineering capability and capacity in the South West region.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	35185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2016 answer text <p>We work closely with aerospace companies and their representative organisations, in particular the West of England Aerospace Forum (WEAF), in the South West through the Aerospace Growth Partnership (AGP) to tackle barriers to growth, boost exports and grow high value jobs. As part of this work we are investing heavily in the sector to support the industry’s private investment in technology, competitiveness and productivity, manufacturing capability and skills.</p><p> </p><p>The work of the AGP includes businesses of all sizes in the South West region including large players such as Airbus, Finmeccanica Helicopters, GE Aviation, GKN, Rolls-Royce, Safran Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, UTC Aerospace Systems, as well as their many medium and small sized suppliers, and other specialist aerospace businesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 27/04/2016 15:52:08 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

454749

registered interest
date	24/02/2016
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	Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to bring forward legislative proposals to amend the Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2014.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	28229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There are no plans to make any amendments to the Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 29/02/2016 13:57:33 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

448174

registered interest
date	27/01/2016
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	Sheffield Forgemasters: Trident Submarines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions his Department has had with the Ministry of Defence on the future of Sheffield Forgemasters and the successor programme.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	24486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>My Department is in regular contact with MoD on a wide range of supply chain issues including in the steel sector. These discussions include individual steel plants such as Sheffield Forgemasters.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 02/02/2016 17:15:53 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

422903

registered interest
date	21/10/2015
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	Shipping: Iron and Steel
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 UK-produced steel has been used in the manufacturing of the new icebreaking vessel being procured by his Department.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	12747
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>We announced on 12 October that UK shipyard Cammell Laird was the preferred bidder for the new polar research vessel. The vessel has not yet been built and negotiations between Cammell Laird and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 27/10/2015 15:01:49 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176326

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Communication
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's communications budget has been for each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2015 answer text <p>Admin Budget</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 £5,588,000</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 £5,657,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 £5,538,223</p><p> </p><p>2011/12 £6,047,000m (this includes the internal Communications budget of £703k, in later years this was moved outside of the communications budget area)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Programme Budget</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 £12,888,000</p><p> </p><p>2013/14 £6,046,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13 £2,700,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures for earlier years are no longer held centrally and will require access to the Department’s previous financial system. I will write to the hon Member with this information once it has been extracted and place a copy of this letter in the libraries of both Houses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/02/2015 14:48:00 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

176327

registered interest
date	28/01/2015
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	Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's advertising budget was in each financial year from 2010-11 to 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	222566
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) publishes the core departmental advertising and publicity costs in the BIS Annual Report and Accounts. The costs recorded in each of the last four annual reports are as follows:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2013/14: £8,774,000</p><p> </p><p>2012/13: £1,449,000</p><p> </p><p>2011/12: £2,402,000</p><p> </p><p>2010/11: £587,000</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The annual report for 2014/15 is due to be published later this year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The spend in 2013/14 was principally due to the launch of the first wave of advertising for the Business is GREAT campaign, which has successfully highlighted Government support available to businesses, assisting many to find the help they need to grow.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 04/02/2015 14:04:52 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

100776

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Performance Appraisal
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 staff in his Department (a) are currently on a personal improvement plan, (b) have been on a persoanl improvement plan for over one year and (c) have been on a personal improvement plan for more than two consecutive years; and what the grades are or were of such staff.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	211820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>At present the Department does not hold any central data on the number of staff on personal improvement plans, as these are handled within the line management chain.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/10/2014 14:59:54 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

100777

registered interest
date	23/10/2014
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	Performance Appraisal
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 staff in his Department are responsible for mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.
tabling member constituency	North Durham
tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
uin	211821
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>At present the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) does not hold any central data on the number of staff on personal improvement plans, as these are handled within the line management chain.</p><p>BIS currently has over 200 internal mentors; however, mentor relationships are confidential and therefore no data is held on how many of these are involved in mentoring staff on personal improvement plans.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 30/10/2014 14:55:26 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones