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693673

registered interest
date	23/02/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Enterprises
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of people employed by social enterprises in each year since 2010.
tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
uin	HL5577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2017 answer text <p>The attached “Social Enterprise: Market Trends 2014” report found that the social enterprise sector employed roughly 2.27 million people in 2014. Estimated employment had increased by approximately 300,000 since 2012, when data were last collected. Data for 2016 are being collated and reviewed and will be published later this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 09/03/2017 15:50:57 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe attachment 1 file name SOCIAL_ENTERPRISE-_MARKET_TRENDS_2015.pdf title Social Enterprise: Market Trends 2014 report
tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon

692186

registered interest
date	20/02/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Enterprises
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they (1) currently support, and (2) plan to support, the social enterprise and social investment sectors across the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL5480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government continues to deliver a number of initiatives to support social enterprises. Specifically we have strengthened the social investment market by building the infrastructure, for example by setting up Big Society Capital, the world’s first wholesale social investment institution, which has already made over £587m worth of investments. We have also set up Access, a £60m foundation for social investment, which supports social enterprises to take on investment.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government has increased opportunities for social enterprises to win public sector contracts by developing 32 operational Social Impact Bonds, which are a type of outcomes based contracts to deliver public services.</p><p> </p><p>We have also encouraged individuals to invest in social enterprises through the world’s first Social Investment Tax Relief that allows people to offset 30% of the cost of their investment from their income tax liability. UK charities and social enterprises have raised £3.4m in two years thanks to the relief. Access to procurement opportunities for social enterprises has been facilitated through the Social Value Act, which encourages commissioners to consider the social value of their suppliers.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to support the growth of public service mutuals to promote greater employee input within organisations. 115 public service mutuals have been created since 2010.</p><p> </p><p>The recent Industrial Strategy Green Paper reaffirmed the government's commitment to social enterprise, and the government is currently consulting on this.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 02/03/2017 15:18:03 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

673663

registered interest
date	16/01/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Enterprises
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the publication of <i>Scotland's</i><i>Social Enterprise Strategy</i> 2016–2026 on 14 December 2016, what plans they have to (1) grow the social enterprise sector over the next 10 years, and (2) develop the UK’s position as a world leader in social enterprise.
tabling member printed	Lord Bird
uin	HL4655
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>Charities and social enterprises play an important role in the government’s mission of building an economy that works for everyone. The government is building on its role as a world leader in social enterprise by championing procurement for social value, supporting social enterprise awareness campaigns, building the social investment market, using social enterprises to address issues at scale and expanding the social investment tax relief.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 24/01/2017 16:45:33 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	4564 label Biography information for Lord Bird

671917

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Social Enterprises
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Lord Ashton of Hyde on 10 January (HL Deb, col 1856), what is their definition of a social enterprise.
tabling member printed	Lord Tebbit
uin	HL4586
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2017 answer text <p>Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social/environmental objectives, whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or community rather than mainly being paid to shareholders or owners. We are currently refreshing our own government estimates of the nature and size of the social enterprise market in the UK, and we will publish our research early in 2017.</p> answering member printed Lord Ashton of Hyde question first answered 24/01/2017 12:31:01 answering member 4247 label Biography information for Lord Ashton of Hyde
tabling member	952 label Biography information for Lord Tebbit