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484352

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	SMART Awards: Cambridge
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 SMART awards have been made to companies in Cambridge in each year since the introduction of that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	32058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>Innovate UK started delivering the Smart scheme in April 2011. The number of Smart awards made to companies in Cambridge in each year is:</p><p>2011-12 37 awards</p><p>2012-13 22 awards</p><p>2013-14 25 awards</p><p>2014-15 29 awards</p><p>2015-16 20 awards</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:35:10 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

484353

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Science: Finance
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 make an assessment of the effect of ring fencing funding from his Department for the Global Challenges Fund on other scientific research for which his Department provides funding.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	32059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2016 answer text <p>Funding for the Global Challenges Research Fund is provided in addition to the existing science and research budget, and is received as a budget transfer from the Department for International Development. The fund will help to keep the UK at the forefront of research into some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including the environment, hunger, poverty and diseases.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 05/04/2016 13:05:31 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

484354

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Small Businesses: Research
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 effect on small and medium-sized enterprises of the decision to replace research grants for companies with loans.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	32060
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>Like many of our competitor economies, we are looking to provide a range of innovation finance products to meet the needs of businesses; this will still include grant funding. Some countries (like France, Finland, or the Netherlands) make use of a variety of financial instruments to support innovative businesses. We have been working to understand how we can apply these established approaches to support, drive and encourage innovation in the UK. In the coming months we will be conducting market research to engage with, and fully understand the needs of, innovative businesses of all sizes in the UK. As part of the first phase of implementation the Government will announce the details of a pilot and accompanying evaluation in late 2016. The pilot will test specific financial products ahead of progressing to full roll-out.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:34:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

484355

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	SMART Awards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons applicants for the fifth round of the SMART scheme will not be able to apply for a sixth round as initially advised.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	32061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>Innovate UK is currently in the process of simplifying its support to innovative businesses to make its funding programmes more visible and easier to access. Innovate UK expects to publish its Delivery Plan for 2016/17 in the spring.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:33:50 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

484367

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Universities: Conditions of Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent representations he has received on commissioning an inquiry into casualised employment practices in UK universities; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Northfield
tabling member printed	Richard Burden
uin	32172
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government engages with stakeholders regularly on a wide range of issues. Universities are autonomous institutions and are responsible for taking decisions on issues such as their staffing and contracting arrangements. In our recent grant letter, we asked the Higher Education Funding Council for England to look into the contractual status of academic staff.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/04/2016 12:46:21 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	301 label Biography information for Richard Burden

484381

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	EU Grants and Loans
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 (a) European Regional Development and (b) European Structural funding (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) Northern Ireland and (iv) each region of England will receive in each year between 2014 and 2020.
tabling member constituency	Arundel and South Downs
tabling member printed	Nick Herbert
uin	32053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>The amount allocated by year to each operational programme for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and European Social Fund (ESF) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for the 2014-2020 period is set out in table 1.6 of the United Kingdom’s Partnership Agreement with the European Commission which can be found on GOV.UK at ‘European Structural and Investment Funds: UK Partnership Agreement’ and is attached.</p><p>Within England, notional allocations for ERDF and ESF were made on the basis of Local Enterprise Partnership areas. The total allocations to each Local Enterprise Partnership area for the 2014-2020 period can be found on the GOV.UK website at ‘EU Structural Funds: UK allocations 2014 to 2020’ and is attached.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry attachment 1 file name LEP-allocations-32053.pdf title Local Enterprise Partnership allocation figures 2 file name Information-from-table-1-6-32053.pdf title ERDF & ESF allocation figures question first answered 30/03/2016 09:59:21 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1479 label Biography information for Lord Herbert of South Downs

484392

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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 Agreements: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government has conducted an (a) impact and (b) risk assessment of the potential effect of the investor protection clause of the (i) Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and (ii) EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement on the services and regulations devolved to the Scottish Government; and if he will place copies of any such assessment in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Ochil and South Perthshire
tabling member printed	Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
uin	32062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills commissioned research into the costs and benefits for the UK of the inclusion of investment protection provisions in the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This was published on 22 November 2013 and copies placed in the House libraries.</p><p>The investment protection provisions in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and any such provisions included in TTIP will not prevent Governments from regulating responsibly in the public interest, nor from delivering public services, including such services and regulations that are devolved to the Scottish Government. A claim can only be made under the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions where an investor believes it has suffered from discriminatory or unfair treatment. ISDS tribunals can typically only award compensation and cannot force governments to change laws or public service delivery models. The UK currently has over 90 investment protection agreements with other countries. There has been no successful action against the UK in respect of any of these agreements.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 06/04/2016 12:37:09 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4427 label Biography information for Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

484429

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Green Investment Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimates his Department has made of the range for the value of liabilities arising from the sale of the Green Investment Bank.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	32151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Government policy is to move the Green Investment Bank (GIB) in to the private sector. Following a sale, GIB’s contractual liabilities will be funded by its new shareholders. To the extent that HM Government retains a minority stake, the Government will contribute funds towards those contractual commitments on a pro rata basis for UK based investments.</p><p>Separately, as part of the sale process, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has entered into an agreement with Poyry (provider of electricity market reports and price forecasting) (electricity market report and associated price forecast provider) (electricity market report and associated price forecast provider)(electricity market report and associated price forecast provider)to share information with potential bidders to help them to undertake due diligence. This agreement requires BIS to provide an indemnity to Poyry in relation to any resulting liability Poyry might incur. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills set out details of the indemnity in his written ministerial statement of 21 March (HCWS633) including his view that the likelihood of it being called upon is low. A Departmental minute explaining the procedure followed and describing the liabilities undertaken has also been placed in the Libraries of the House.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 24/03/2016 16:28:20 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

484447

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Education: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of people between 18 and 24 from each social background defined by their father's occupation are participating in full or part-time education or training activity.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	32127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>A BIS performance indicator showing the proportion of people aged 18-24 participating in full or part-time education or training broken down by social background defined by their father’s occupation is published online.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-performance-indicators-skills" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bis-performance-indicators-skills</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/04/2016 14:54:36 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

484523

registered interest
date	22/03/2016
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	Zero Hours Contracts
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the proportion of people on zero-hours contracts who are seeking full-time employment with guaranteed pay and hours of work.
tabling member printed	Baroness Quin
uin	HL7300
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has not made an assessment.</p><p> </p><p>ONS statistics published on 9 March 2016, for the fourth quarter of 2015, show that for those individuals on a zero hours contract in their main job, 63 per cent were not looking for more hours or a different job.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 04/04/2016 13:27:09 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	518 label Biography information for Baroness Quin