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226555

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Intellectual Property
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made on giving intellectual property rights holders an opportunity to discuss with search engine providers how to maximise the prioritisation of sites with legitimate content.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	227249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Since October 2014, my noble Friend the Minister for Intellectual Property Baroness Neville-Rolfe has chaired 4 roundtable meetings between representatives of the creative industries and leading UK search engines.</p><p> </p><p>The meetings have been focused on discussing steps that can be taken to reduce the number of consumers led to copyright infringing websites through search results.</p><p> </p><p>Work continues, but during this period the group has seen a substantial improvement in the way some of the most infringing sites are dealt with in search rankings.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/03/2015 15:57:19 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

226556

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Intellectual Property
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 take steps to increase co-ordination and accountability for intellectual property policy by establishing a cross-industry partnership between the Intellectual Property Office and the Creative Industries Council.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	227252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Creative Industry Council is co-chaired by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Nicola Mendelsohn (Vice President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Facebook). As an agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Intellectual Property Office develops intellectual property policy to support innovation and growth, and is already fully engaged in the work of the Creative Industries Council, including the intellectual property workstream.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/03/2015 16:01:43 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

226559

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Intellectual Property: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the discussion paper, Follow the Money: financial options to assist in the battle against online IP piracy, published by the hon. Member for Hove in June 2014, what steps the Government has taken to (a) ensure that initiatives to tackle intellectual property offences by cutting advertising revenue streams have an international focus and (b) promote further collaboration between the Intellectual Property Office and equivalent bodies in other countries.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	227254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Government has formed an Advertising Working Group, chaired by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), which includes representation from international brand holders, online advertisers and law enforcement. Its remit encompasses advertising revenue streams that originate from all territories. The Police IP Crime Unit’s Infringing Website List contains websites owned and hosted internationally and ensures that advertisers adopt a global approach to reduce advertising on websites accused of hosting and facilitating the use of copyright infringing material.</p><p> </p><p>The IPO works closely with equivalent bodies such as the EU Observatory, the Commission and national IP Offices, as well as international law enforcers such as Europol and Interpol, to share our experiences and highlight best practice to help counter the international threat from online IP piracy.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/03/2015 16:04:05 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

226561

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	Training
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 his Department spent on the traineeships programme in each month from August 2013 to October 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	227263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The amount spent on traineeships for those aged 19 and over in the 2013/14 academic year was not recorded separately to the Adult Skills Budget. Information on spend for the 2014/15 academic year is not yet available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The estimated amount of funding provided for these traineeships in 2013/14 is £6.4m. This is based on the number of traineeships delivered by providers and is not necessarily what has been paid.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2015 15:02:43 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

226563

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	LighterLife
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received on LighterLife UK's business practices; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	227127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has received no representations on LighterLife UK's business practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/03/2015 10:51:18 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

226564

registered interest
date	11/03/2015
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	LighterLife
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received from LighterLife UK franchisees on that company's business practices.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Nick de Bois
uin	227128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills has received no representations from LighterLife UK franchise on that company’s business practices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 16/03/2015 10:52:35 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4002 label Biography information for Nick de Bois

226196

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Adult Education: Hyndburn
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the 2015-16 adult social skills budget for Hyndburn is; and what the percentage change from last year's budget is.
tabling member constituency	Hyndburn
tabling member printed	Graham Jones
uin	227015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The funding available for Adult Skills in 2015/16 is outlined in the Skills Funding Letter. The letter sets out the Government’s priorities for the budget and it is for providers to decide how they use their adult skills funding to reflect those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in their local area.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-letter-april-2015-to-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-letter-april-2015-to-march-2016</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 16/03/2015 11:16:35 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3999 label Biography information for Graham P Jones

226212

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme
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 most recent assessment is of default rates under the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme; and with what frequency his Department makes such an assessment.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	227105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Enterprise Finance Guarantee (EFG) scheme is administered by the British Business Bank (BBB), which was set up by the Secretary of State to manage such programmes professionally. The BBB closely monitors the performance of the scheme on a quarterly basis. The scheme default rate, which was 11.5% as at 31st December 2014 on the original drawn loan balance, does not reflect the overall cost to Government as not all defaults lead to a claim being made against the guarantee.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The EFG is a valuable programme that, since launch, has supported additional lending to small and medium sized businesses by enabling over 23,000 loans with a total value of some £2.4bn (as at 31 December 2014) and has a significant wider economic benefit.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 15:01:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

226213

registered interest
date	10/03/2015
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	Business: Advisory Services
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 business that have applied for Growth Vouchers have not been successful in that application to date.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	227103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>As at 8 March, there were 26,903 applications to the Growth Vouchers programme. Of the 16,903 businesses who have gone on to complete the assessment of their needs, 12,687 have been allocated a voucher and 4,216 have not.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 15:04:09 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

225859

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions rights have been registered on the Land Register through adverse possession in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	226640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Land Registry does not hold the information on the number of occasions where applications for adverse possession have been registered in the last 3 years. ‘Adverse Possessions’ fall within the general category ‘First Registrations’ which, as the name suggests, are applications for title to unregistered land.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/03/2015 16:40:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering