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49715

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
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 and what proportion of adults in (a) the UK and (b) the smallest geographical areas in the UK for which information is held are functionally illiterate.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	197792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>The 2011 Skills for Life survey provides an estimate of adult literacy levels for people aged between 16 and 65 years-old in England, based on fieldwork conducted between May 2010 and February 2011. The headline findings of the survey were published in December 2011.[1] The survey results show that 14.9 per cent (5.1 million) of people had a literacy level below Level 1. Level 1 is viewed as the Level required to be ‘functionally literate', the level needed to get by in life and at work,[2] and so people below this level could be defined as having a low level of literacy. Level 1 is equivalent to GCSE grades D-G. Adults with skills below Level 1 can read or write, but their skills may be limited, for example, they may not be able to read bus or train timetables.</p><p> </p><p>The 2011 Skills for Life survey also provided Small Area modelled estimates[3] for sub-regional geographies. This analysis provides estimates of the proportions and numbers of people above and below the ‘functional literacy' threshold (i.e. National Qualification Framework Level 1) for sub-regional geographies in England. The smallest geographical area reported in this analysis are middle-layer super output areas – these are small areas of consistent size (of about 7,200 people) used for the collection and reporting of small area statistics by the Office of National Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>The recent OECD Survey of Adult Skills, published in 2013, based on fieldwork August 2011 and March 2012, included estimates of UK literacy levels, based on England and Northern Ireland (Scotland and Wales did not participate in the survey). National reports for England and Northern Ireland[4] based on the OECD survey note that 17 per cent of adults in England had low proficiency in literacy (i.e. at or below the OECD Level 1 in literacy, roughly equivalent to below NQF Level 1 literacy), compared to 18 per cent in Northern Ireland.</p><br /><p>[1] TNS-BMRB and AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd. (2011) <em>2011 Skills for Life survey: headline findings,</em> Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, BIS research paper 57. Available online at: <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/further-education-skills/docs/0-9/11-1367-2011-skills-for-life-survey-findings.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/further-education-skills/docs/0-9/11-1367-2011-skills-for-life-survey-findings.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/2014.</p><p>[2] As defined in the Leitch review of skills. See Leitch, S. (2006) <em>Prosperity for All in the Global Economy – world class skills</em>, available online at: <a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/4/leitch_finalreport051206.pdf" target="_blank">http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/6/4/leitch_finalreport051206.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/2014: page 61-62.</p><p>[3] Available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/2011-skills-for-life-survey-small-area-estimation-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/2011-skills-for-life-survey-small-area-estimation-data</a>, accessed on 6/2/14.</p><p>[4] NFER (2013) The International Survey of Adult Skills: adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills in England, BIS research report 139. Available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246534/bis-13-1221-international-survey-of-adult-skills-2012.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/246534/bis-13-1221-international-survey-of-adult-skills-2012.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/14.; NFER (2013) The International Survey of Adult Skills: adult literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills in Northern Ireland, Department for Employment and Learning. Available online at: <a href="http://www.delni.gov.uk/international-survey-adult-skills-2012.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.delni.gov.uk/international-survey-adult-skills-2012.pdf</a>, accessed on 07/05/14.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

49744

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which organisations have received how much funding from his Department aimed at supporting access to short breaks and respite provision for children, young people and their families experiencing all types of disadvantage in each of the last five financial years.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool North and Cleveleys
tabling member printed	Paul Maynard
uin	197818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>Departmental records show that in each of the last five financial years, no funding was made in respect of supporting access to short breaks and respite provision for children, young people and their families.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard

49783

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
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 protect consumers from fraud and other doorstep crimes.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Mr Frank Field
uin	197891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>The Government takes doorstep crime very seriously and the issue has been identified as a top priority by the Consumer Protection Partnership (CPP) which brings together enforcement, consumer education, and advocacy partners to identify, prioritise and coordinate collective action to tackle the issues causing greatest harm to consumers.</p><p> </p><p>Both the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS), which are funded by BIS, are putting resources into tackling doorstep crime and Trading Standards Officers across the country are cracking down on these fraudsters. In Lincolnshire for example, Trading Standards has teamed up with the Police and Community Lincs to raise awareness of doorstep crime amongst professionals caring for the elderly, including awareness of bogus callers, rogue traders, distraction burglary, and scam mail. To date 330 health and social care professionals who work regularly with 4,300 elderly and vulnerable people have been trained in how to spot potential victims and how to intervene at an early stage of a scam.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Doorstep Crime will also be the focus on this year's National Consumer Week in November 2014, when CPP Partners and the Government will work together to in raise consumer awareness of how to spot a bogus salesperson and where to report it.</p><p> </p><p>We are also hitting the perpetrators of fraud hard. A recent operation involving Trading Standards companies across the country and 20 police forces brought down a trio of fraudsters targeting vulnerable caravan park residents across the country. This resulted in 6 years of custodial sentences being handed down and the recovery of £20,000 in cash.</p><p> </p><p>We encourage anyone who believes that they have been the victim of doorstep crime or fraud to contact the Citizens Advice Consumer helpline on 08454 040506.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

50010

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
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 people registered a business (a) online and (b) offline in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	197731
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>There is no register containing every business in the UK. The Companies House register provides information on a subset of businesses required to file information with the registrar of companies; for example, those businesses that incorporate as companies or limited liability partnerships or register as limited partnerships. Not all of the companies that register with Companies House are businesses or go on to becomeactively tradingbusinesses.</p><p> </p><p>Companies House statistics show that in the years in question the following numbers of companies were registered (a) online and (b) offline:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Online </strong></p></td><td><p>366,051</p></td><td><p>437,441</p></td><td><p>470,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Offline</strong></p></td><td><p>34,504</p></td><td><p>18,208</p></td><td><p>11,995</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p>400,555</p></td><td><p>455,649</p></td><td><p>482,795</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

50035

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
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 commission research into whether the rate of pay for apprentices under 18 years is a disincentive.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Mike Crockart
uin	197748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/05/2014 answer text <p>The last Apprentice Pay Survey was published in 2012. The Government has recently commissioned a new Apprentice Pay Survey. This will provide a complete overview of Apprentice pay in Great Britain by autumn 2014. In addition it is now possible to specifically identify information relating to apprentices within the large Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.</p><p> </p><p>Apprentice pay is reviewed annually by the independent Low Pay Commission (LPC) as part of their review of the Apprentice National Minimum Wage. Since its introduction in 2010 the LPC has not found any evidence that the Apprentice rate damaged employment levels.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has recently accepted the LPC's recommendation to increase the Apprentice rate by 2% to £2.73 per hour. In the judgment of the LPC a higher rate would risk damaging employment of Apprentices. Research shows that in reality the majority of employers pay more – the average pay for apprentices in 2012 is £200 per week (England only).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Apprentice minimum wage recognises that employers invest significantly in apprenticeships and may be put off recruiting apprentices due to their lack of experience in the workplace and the additional training costs involved. Young people who complete an Apprenticeship derive significant long-term advantages and their investment in training has clear benefits.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 13/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	3967 label Biography information for Mike Crockart

50036

registered interest
date	06/05/2014
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
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 has on the number of apprentices under 18 years who live at home.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh West
tabling member printed	Mike Crockart
uin	197749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Information collected centrally does not distinguish between apprentices living at home with parents and those who have moved away for the purpose of study.</p><p> </p><p>We annually ask apprentices for their views and 88% say they are satisfied with their apprenticeship.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3967 label Biography information for Mike Crockart

49594

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of levels of imports of wood for biomass combustion within the UK in the last three years for which figures are available; and from what countries that wood was imported.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	197674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Data on the value of imports of fuel wood are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following table for Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) 245.01 - Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms (excluding wood waste).</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>UK</strong><strong> imports of fuel wood (SITC 245.01) by partner country, £s</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>(sorted by total value of fuel wood imports over the three years, high to low)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2013</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total (all countries)</p></td><td><p>2,164,613</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,515,611</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,668,665</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Latvia</p></td><td><p>855,773</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>573,022</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,508,111</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Netherlands</p></td><td><p>592,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>892,166</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>576,180</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Poland</p></td><td><p>208,031</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>200,393</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>771,578</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ukraine</p></td><td><p>72,122</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>117,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,861</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Indonesia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>118,859</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>201,681</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Irish Republic</p></td><td><p>18,387</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,802</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>151,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ghana</p></td><td><p>52,855</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>49,662</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>47,408</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Germany</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>140,172</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>7,398</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Africa</p></td><td><p>108,207</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>9,337</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Estonia</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>112,771</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thailand</p></td><td><p>50,750</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>53,545</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>5,680</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>United States</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>41,614</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>64,413</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Malaysia</p></td><td><p>18,455</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>42,920</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>40,101</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sweden</p></td><td><p>52</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>62,245</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>10,451</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Australia</p></td><td><p>65,785</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Namibia</p></td><td><p>47,732</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,528</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,430</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hong Kong</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>46,680</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Belarus</p></td><td><p>27,958</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Egypt</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>8,807</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>15,494</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lithuania</p></td><td><p>1,369</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,144</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,669</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bosnia &amp; Herz.</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>20,053</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Vietnam</p></td><td><p>13,877</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>3,946</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Canada</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>16,303</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Denmark</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>14,536</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>China</p></td><td><p>6,165</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>6,251</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>610</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Honduras</p></td><td><p>12,853</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Pakistan</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,409</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>4,915</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jamaica</p></td><td><p>8,318</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Guyana</p></td><td><p>3,524</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>India</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>1,822</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>UAE</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Spain</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>459</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

49609

registered interest
date	02/05/2014
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
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 Regional Growth Fund bids were submitted by each local enterprise partnership area in the most recent bidding round; and how many of these were successful.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne East
tabling member printed	Mr Nicholas Brown
uin	197628
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>133 bids were submitted to Round 5 of the Regional Growth Fund. Three of these bids withdrew and one was for less than the £1 million bidding threshold.</p><p> </p><p>129 bids were therefore appraised, of which 98 were projects and 31 were programmes. Of these, 13 programmes and 37 projects were selected. Programmes may cover a number of Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas and some are national in scope so are not represented in the following table.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the number of Round 5 project bids by LEP area with the number of bids that were selected for funding. Project bids originating from an area covered by more than one LEP are shown at the bottom of the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>LEP Round 5 Projects</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Applications</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Selected</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black Country</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cheshire and Warrington</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coast to Capital</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry and Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enterprise M3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Birmingham and Solihull</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Cambridge &amp; Greater Peterborough</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Lincolnshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heart of the South West</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Hertfordshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leeds City Region</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Leicester and Leicestershire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Liverpool City Region</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>New Anglia</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Eastern</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sheffield City Region</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East Midlands</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Swindon and Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Thames Valley Berkshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West of England</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>York and North Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Project bids from an area covered by more than one LEP: </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, &amp; Sheffield City Region</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Birmingham and Solihull &amp; Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Birmingham and Solihull &amp; Worcestershire</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Cambridge &amp; Greater Peterborough &amp; New Anglia</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northamptonshire &amp; South East Midlands</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>98</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>37</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	523 label Biography information for Mr Nicholas Brown

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registered interest
date	01/05/2014
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
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 introduce legislative proposals to clarify the obligations that fairground attractions meet when publishing the price of rides.
tabling member constituency	Bournemouth East
tabling member printed	Mr Tobias Ellwood
uin	197485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>There is already legislation, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (CPRs) which requires traders to provide consumers with the information they need to make informed decisions. The Regulations prohibit commercial practices which omit or hide material information which the average consumer needs, according to the context, to decide how they meet these obligations in relation to the prices they charge, but having a clearly visible price list would be a relatively easy way of ensuring that consumers have access to relevant information. The CPRs also make it a criminal offence to give misleading price information.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood

49407

registered interest
date	01/05/2014
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he intends to reply to the letter to the Minister for Skills and Enterprise dated 27 February 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr John Mannion.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Sir Gerald Kaufman
uin	197511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/05/2014 answer text <p>Although the Department has received and responded to earlier correspondence from the Rt. Hon. Member on behalf of this constituent, we have no record of having received the letter referred to. If he could send a copy of this latest correspondence we will deal with it as a matter of urgency.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	451 label Biography information for Sir Gerald Kaufman