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178787

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Contempt of Court
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what recent steps he has taken to promote awareness of the laws on contempt of court among social media users.
tabling member constituency	Exeter
tabling member printed	Mr Ben Bradshaw
uin	224010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Where appropriate the Attorney General and I publish online the warnings about potentially prejudicial reporting that Attorneys General had previously only given to the mainstream media. My office also sends tweets warning social media users of the risks of being in contempt of court.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Attorney General has recently issued advice to social media users and others that identifying a victim in a sexual offence case is a criminal offence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We continue to look at whether there is anything more that can be done to raise awareness in this area.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 23/02/2015 12:49:20 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	230 label Biography information for Mr Ben Bradshaw

178788

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	HSBC
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions he has had with the Crown Prosecution Service in respect of the possibility of prosecuting HSBC Bank for conspiracy to assist some of its customers to evade paying tax.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	224063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Attorney General and I frequently meet representatives of the Crown Prosecution Service to discuss a variety of issues. However, as was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s policy to provide details of all such meetings.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 23/02/2015 12:47:10 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

178789

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Genetics: Human Rights
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, Article 3, Part 2 and the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine to interventions aimed at modifying the genome of the recipient's descendants.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>By convention whether or not I have given advice or conducted legal assessments, is not disclosed outside of Government.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 23/02/2015 12:56:39 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

178790

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Standard Individual Export Licences: Middle East
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 9 February 2015 to Question 222938, regarding the standard individual export licence for equipment employing cryptography and software for equipment employing cryptography to the value of £7.7 billion approved by his Department for export to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, what the reasons were for the surrender of that licence by the exporter in August 2014; what role was played by his Department in the surrender of that licence; and what the reasons were for his Department's approval of that licence in the first quarter of 2013 when it was then surrendered unused by the exporter 18 months later.
tabling member constituency	Tonbridge and Malling
tabling member printed	Sir John Stanley
uin	224113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>Exporters are not obliged to give reasons for surrendering licences. This was a purely commercial decision by the company and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills played no part in the decision to surrender the licence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As is the case with all applications, this application was assessed against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria in the usual way, taking into account the nature of the goods and the intended end-use. The application was for electronic components and circuit boards, which are specifically designed for building mobile phone networks for public use. The proposed export did not breach any of the Criteria and therefore the licence was granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:04:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	91 label Biography information for Sir John Stanley

178791

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Small Businesses: Billing
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 his Department has taken to enforce prompt payments to small and medium-sized enterprises by large companies.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government is taking forward a suite of measures to tackle prompt payment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, currently before Parliament, we will introduce measures to improve transparency on payment practices and policies. Increased transparency, through a tough and transparent new reporting requirement on the UK’s largest companies, will help take significant steps to addressing the current imbalance in economic power between small and large contracting parties. Our consultation on draft secondary regulations to underpin these measures closed on 2 February. We will publish a summary of responses shortly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently seeking views on how to best give representative bodies wider powers to be able to challenge grossly unfair payment practices on behalf of members. The discussion paper is available online and is open until 9 March.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government is also working to strengthen the impact of the Prompt Payment Code. We are currently considering proposals, including introducing a maximum payment term for Code signatories, more rigorous monitoring of signatory behaviour, and the enforcement of tougher sanctions on bad payers. We will announce our proposals in Spring.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>These measures will drive forward a shift in payment culture that will make it unacceptable for large companies in positions of extreme bargaining imbalances to exploit smaller suppliers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 13:55:31 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

178792

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Savings: Pensioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what advice his Department provides to pensioners on how to invest their money.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	224108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>At Budget 2014, the Chancellor announced a number of measures to give people more choice about how they use and manage their money in retirement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Chancellor announced that from April 2015, anyone 55 and over will be able to access their defined contribution pension savings and use the savings as they choose.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A new service, Pension Wise, will provide guidance online, face-to-face and on the phone, and will be up and running in time for April 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The website, in pilot form, is already available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 25/02/2015 16:51:39 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

178793

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
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 page 10 of the Government's publication entitled UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what revisions have been (a) made or (b) planned to the UK's Supply Chain Code of Practice in the offshore oil and gas industry since July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>There have been no revisions nor are there planned revisions to the UK's Supply Chain Code of Practice for the offshore oil and gas industry since July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 12:58:41 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178794

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
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 page 11 of the UK Government's publication entitled, Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy, what funding has been allocated to date to companies in the offshore industry supply chain through the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative during the current period of low oil prices.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The time period in question is covered by current round of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI). AMSCI 2014 has yet to announce any successful bids as the assessment phase is still on-going. Decisions are made by an Independent Investment Board.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:27:32 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178798

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
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 9 February 2015 to Question 223458, what the current (a) employment protections and (b) collective bargaining rights are for contractors working in the offshore oil and gas sector.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2015 answer text <p>A contractor’s employment protections will depend on the facts of the working relationship and the contract under which they are working. This is irrespective of whether the individual is being contracted for offshore work or not. Contractors who are actually workers or employees would be entitled to the same basic employment protections as other offshore workers with a similar status, and indeed would have common collective rights. Contractors who are self-employed may be entitled to a smaller number of employment protections, depending on the terms of their contract. There is no single list of the protections and rights of offshore workers and contractors because these will be specific to the contract, the location of the work place and the employment status of the contractor. The Government is exploring how to add clarity to this as part of the employment status review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 17/02/2015 16:15:00 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

178800

registered interest
date	10/02/2015
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	Offshore Industry
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 have been taken since July 2014 to revise the UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy: government and industry in partnership; and when that Strategy is next due for review.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	224046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>The Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy is under constant review by the Oil and Gas Industry Council. The Council met in November 2014 and is due to meet next in March 2015.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 23/02/2015 14:36:07 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham