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486977

registered interest
date	24/03/2016
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	Fossil Fuels: Import Duties
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 potential costs and benefits of introducing an import tax on coal and gas imported from outside the EU; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	32468
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>The UK is part of the EU Single market which has a common EU tariff policy which applies to all imports. Import tariffs are set by the EU. The UK has no legal ability to set its own import tariffs.</p><p>EU tariffs rates form part of our World Trade Organisation (WTO) commitments and apply to all WTO member countries. Under WTO rules increases to EU tariffs above the level committed to, or ‘bound’ rate, require us to give compensation to affected countries (in the form of lower tariffs on other products). Any potential benefit of an import tariff increase may therefore harm another UK sector.</p><p>The latest version of the EU tariff was published in Official Journal to the EU L285 on 30 October 2015 (Council implementing Regulation EU No 1101/2014 amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC|) No 2658/87 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff). Chapter 27 covers the import of fuel including coal and gas. The import of coal has a 0% import duty and the import of gas ranges from 0% to 8% depending on the type and usage.</p><p>WTO rules, do however allow countries to impose import tariffs when goods are being “dumped” e.g. sold on our market at below manufacturing cost price. If there is evidence that imports of coal and gas are being dumped the European Commission could propose imposing anti-dumping duties.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 14/04/2016 15:57:33 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

457420

registered interest
date	03/03/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Fringe Benefits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 26 February 2016 to Question 26810, what the job titles are of those people in receipt of travel expenses, paid car allowances or subsidised health insurance.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	29732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>Individual job titles are not held centrally by the BIS HR database. Roles tend to be grouped under work areas e.g. ‘policy delivery’ or ‘human resources’ instead of job titles.</p><p>Where we are able to identify job titles, they are very specific roles carried out by individual employees, and therefore it would be possible to identify personal information of these employees. This information has therefore not been released.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 15:59:50 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

451867

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Fringe Benefits
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 and non-departmental public bodies receive (a) home to work travel allowance, (b) a car allowance and (c) subsidised health insurance.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	26810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>If staff are on a detached duty or overseas postings they can claim for certain travel expenses. Out of 2514 employees in BIS HQ, fewer than 20 employees are paid reasonable extra travel costs. These are paid for a limited period.</p><p> </p><p>There are no BIS policies that allow the payments of car allowances or subsidised health insurance to employees. However BIS has a legal obligation to honour contractual arrangements when staff join through a TUPE transfer including car allowances and subsidised health cover. Due to TUPE transfers, there are fewer than 20 employees paid car allowances or subsidised health cover. These benefits would not be renewed for new employees.</p><p> </p><p>As the number of payments are so low, exact numbers have not been provided to ensure that individual employees are not identifiable.</p><p> </p><p>The requested information is not held by BIS in respect of non-Departmental Public Bodies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/02/2016 14:42:03 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

428327

registered interest
date	16/11/2015
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
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 effectiveness of adult education courses in helping people into work.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	16320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department commissioned econometric research to estimate the labour market impact of Further Education (FE), which found that FE generates significant economic effects, resulting in sustained higher earnings and increased employment chances. This report was published in December 2014 and is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-comparing-labour-market-economic-benefits-from-qualifications-gained" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-comparing-labour-market-economic-benefits-from-qualifications-gained</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/11/2015 11:41:27 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

427211

registered interest
date	09/11/2015
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: Mental Illness
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 his Department has made of the potential benefits of adult education courses for people with mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	15357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2015 answer text <p>There is evidence that adult education courses can have positive benefits for people with mental health problems:</p><ul><li>A 2012 LSE study<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> reported health and wellbeing benefits associated with adult learning, with reductions in self-reported depression, improvements in life satisfaction, enhanced perceptions of self-worth, improvements in self-reported overall health and increased desire to find a better job.</li><li>An Institute of Education study<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> found that interest-related learning had the effect of increasing women’s life satisfaction and decreasing female depression, as well as having a positive effect on self-efficacy.</li><li>In 2010, Northamptonshire County Council Adult Learning Service and the local Teaching Primary Care Trust developed community adult education courses for people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety. The project was evaluated over a three year period by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF)<strong><sup><strong><sup>[3]</sup></strong></sup></strong>. The evaluation found that the adult education courses offered a simple, low-cost way of helping to reduce the symptoms of mild to moderate depression and anxiety.</li></ul><p>To test this evidence more rigorously, the 2014 Autumn Statement announced new funding to pilot adult education courses targeted at adults with mild to moderate mental health problems. Adult education providers are developing courses in partnership with local mental health organisations. The project is being advised by a cross-government steering group which includes senior officials from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England and the Department for Work and Pensions.</p><p>A consortium led by Ipsos-MORI is undertaking an external evaluation and gathering anonymised evidence about participants’ progress in relation to anxiety, depression and wellbeing. Pilots are using the same standardised and validated assessment scores as used by the NHS Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. For more information, including a map of the projects, go to: <a href="http://mhfe.org.uk/clmh-pilots/" target="_blank">http://mhfe.org.uk/clmh-pilots/</a>.</p><br /><p>[1] <em>Review and update of research into the wider benefits of adult learning (</em>LSE) 2012</p><p>[2] <em>The relationship between adult learning and wellbeing: Evidence from the 1958 National Child Development Study </em>(Institute of Education), 2012</p><p>[3] Robotham : <strong><em>Learning for Life: adult learning, mental health and wellbeing (Mental Health Foundation), 2011</em></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 18/11/2015 12:47:37 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

426448

registered interest
date	05/11/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which regulations his Department introduced as a result of EU legislation in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date; which regulations his Department expects to implement as a result of EU legislation in (i) 2016 and (ii) 2017; and what estimate he has made of the cost of each such regulation to the (A) public purse and (B) private sector.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	15037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>All regulations implementing EU legislation that have been introduced since 2013 and their associated impacts can be found on <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.legislation.gov.uk</a>. The impact of future regulations that implement EU legislation will also be available on this site in due course.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/11/2015 14:51:57 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

417195

registered interest
date	07/09/2015
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Carbon Emissions
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 carbon offsetting in each of the last three years; and to which companies payments in respect of carbon offsetting were made in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	9161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The core Department for Business Innovation and Skills spent the following on carbon offsetting in the last 3 years:</p><p>F/Y 09-10 EDF Trading Ltd - £90063</p><p>F/Y 10-11 RWE Supply &amp; Trade in Switzerland SA - £31496.33</p><p>F/Y 11-12 South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd - £2902.72</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/09/2015 09:29:17 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

384630

registered interest
date	22/06/2015
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	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 much has been (a) given to and (b) recovered from prisoners in tuition fee loans taken out since September 2012.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	3494
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2015 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers and collects information on student support for each of the UK Government Administrations.</p><p> </p><p>In February 2015, the SLC responded to the Freedom of Information (FOI) request: <em>How many prisoners have received student finance in the UK in the past three years, and how much has been paid? </em>The response provided can be found at the following link: <a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/886467/foi_response_199-14.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/media/886467/foi_response_199-14.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on the tuition fee loans recovered from these prisoners could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 29/06/2015 13:08:54 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227695

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Staff are not prevented from downloading any news applications for use on their work-provided phones and tablets.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/03/2015 10:29:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

177763

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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	Tobacco: Packaging
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 the Intellectual Property Office has made of the potential effect of the introduction of standardised tobacco products on intellectual property rights.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	223412
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government believes that standardised packaging is a proportionate and justified response to the considerable public health harm from smoking tobacco. We continue to consider carefully all issues relevant to the policy, including the impact on intellectual property rights.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 10/02/2015 14:28:33 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies