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536109

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	British Nationals Abroad: Electoral Register
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure overseas electors receive ballot papers in time to vote in elections.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2016 answer text <p>In the last Parliament, the Government amended legislation to make it easier for overseas electors and Armed Forces personnel to vote by post at elections and referendums in the UK. The electoral timetable was lengthened and the restriction on issuing postal votes ahead of the postal vote application deadline removed.</p><p>We continue to keep under review the practical operation of the postal voting process and meet with electoral administrators and their suppliers to identify ways to provide a more effective service, including expediting the delivery of postal votes to overseas electors.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 19/07/2016 13:11:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

536115

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to publish its assessments of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU conducted in the six months before the EU referendum.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42593
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government published its assessments of the long-term and immediate economic impact of leaving the EU in April and May this year. These can be found at the following web addresses:</p><p>- <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-long-term-economic-impact-of-eu-membership-and-the-alternatives" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-long-term-economic-impact-of-eu-membership-and-the-alternatives</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-immediate-economic-impact-of-leaving-the-eu" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-analysis-the-immediate-economic-impact-of-leaving-the-eu</a></p> answering member constituency Haltemprice and Howden answering member printed Mr David Davis question first answered 18/07/2016 14:50:16 answering member 373 label Biography information for Sir David Davis
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

536226

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Police and Crime Commissioners: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many spoilt ballots were counted in the 2016 Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>Provisional analysis undertaken by the Government has identified that a total of 311,509 ballot papers were rejected at the elections of Police and Crime Commissioners held on 5 May 2016.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/07/2016 14:55:38 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

535911

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Local Enterprise Partnerships
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to improve the transparency of decisions taken by Local Economic Partnership (LEP) members, such as requiring registers of members' interests or the publication of a conflict of interest policy.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL1188
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government is clear that Local Enterprise Partnerships should operate transparently: giving people confidence that decisions made are proper, based on evidence, and not biased by conflicts of interest.</p><p> </p><p>How each Local Enterprise Partnership is achieving this is set out in their own local assurance framework, and verified by their accountable local authority. We are reviewing every framework as part of the criteria for the current round of growth deals, and again through annual performance conversations with each Partnership.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 27/07/2016 13:48:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

536108

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Minimum Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to ensure that companies do not offset the costs of paying the new minimum wage by reducing rates of pay for (a) some workers and (b) night and weekend working.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42658
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>We recognise that employers will respond to the National Living Wage in a variety of ways depending on their circumstances, but the Government does not consider it acceptable for companies to use it as an excuse to cut staff benefits.</p><p> </p><p>In a growing economy, the National Living Wage should represent an opportunity to invest in talented staff and improve productivity. Employers need to ensure their pay and reward packages are competitive to retain and develop the people they need for their business.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 06:33:15 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

536121

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has received on the potential merits of requiring search engines to change their algorithms to reduce the visibility of illegal streaming websites.
	tabling member constituency	Selby and Ainsty
	tabling member printed	Nigel Adams
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42624
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>My noble Friend the Minister of State for Energy and Intellectual Property, Baroness Neville-Rolfe, chairs regular roundtable meetings between the UK’s leading search engine providers, representatives of the music and film industries, and government officials.</p><p> </p><p>Since the instigation of these roundtables, Google, Yahoo! and Bing have all taken steps to reduce the prominence of copyright infringing websites in their search results. These steps have included algorithm changes as well as changes to the autocomplete suggestions offered to users.</p><p> </p><p>The discussions are supported by research undertaken by OFCOM which has shown a decrease in the prominence of the most infringing websites (as measured by the number of notifications Google have received about infringing content for those sites).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 02/08/2016 13:53:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams

536137

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Energy: Imports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 12 July 2016 to Question 42023, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect of exchange rate fluctuations following the EU referendum on the (a) cost to the UK of importing energy and (b) levels imported; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42653
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment of the potential effect of exchange rate fluctuations on the levels or cost to the UK of imported energy following the EU referendum.</p><p> </p><p>It is too early to speculate on any resulting medium and long-term exchange rate fluctuations. Furthermore, exchange rates are only one of the factors that will influence volumes and costs of imported energy.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 25/07/2016 08:49:15 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

536140

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will extend the remit of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to include primary producers' relationships with their suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42634
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>We will shortly be commencing a review of the Groceries Code Adjudicator and as part of that we will take account of the recent calls for its remit to be extended.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 06:50:10 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

536188

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Equal Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of the introduction of the new minimum wage on (a) evening and weekend working pay rates for women and (b) gender pay equality.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Helen Jones
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42657
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>The Government has published an impact assessment on the introduction of the National Living Wage here: <a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/3/pdfs/ukia_20160003_en.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2016/3/pdfs/ukia_20160003_en.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, more recent HM Treasury analysis[1] shows that the National Living Wage is expected to eradicate the gender pay gap for the lowest paid (at the 10<sup>th</sup> percentile) by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/today-britain-gets-a-pay-rise-thanks-to-the-national-living-wage" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/today-britain-gets-a-pay-rise-thanks-to-the-national-living-wage</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:01:08 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	432 label Biography information for Helen Jones

536224

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Apprentices: Living Wage
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether anyone over 25 who is participating in an apprenticeship is entitled to the National Living Wage.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	42732
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2016 answer text <p>Apprentices aged 25 and over who have completed the first year of an apprenticeship must be paid at least the National Living Wage, currently set at £7.20.</p><p> </p><p>More information on the National Living Wage is available here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/08/2016 07:04:21 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms