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706640

registered interest
date	01/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to ensure that internships are accessible to people from all backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	66181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service offers a range of internship opportunities. A substantial number of these internships are accessed through positive action schemes, permitted by the Equality Act 2010, to alleviate disadvantage experienced by people from certain groups and to improve their representation.</p><p> </p><p>The Summer Diversity Internship and Early Diversity Internship Programmes, for example, are targeted at BAME, lower socio-economic and disabled groups because they are currently under-represented in the Fast Stream graduate programme. We will continue to prioritise these under-represented groups and consider such schemes to be appropriate initiatives to help increase awareness of the Civil Service and ultimately lead to increased numbers of successful applications to the Fast Stream.</p><p> </p><p>Other internships, not diversity specific, are run but tend to be overseen by specific departments or specialisms, such as the annual FCO internship programme and the Government Economic Service Summer Vacation Placement Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>All recruitment for permanent positions conforms to the Civil Service Commission Principles of fair and open selection, based on merit.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 08/03/2017 14:15:55 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

596119

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of employer's using unpaid trial shifts, particularly in the hospitality sector.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	47236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not make any assessment of employers using unpaid trial shifts for any sectors including hospitality.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 17/10/2016 13:30:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

596134

registered interest
date	07/10/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what statistics are held by the Government relating to incidences of unpaid trial shifts since May 2010 relating to (a) individuals not claiming benefits and (b) people under 25 years old.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Phil Boswell
uin	47058
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/10/2016 14:41:46 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ 47058 V.03 (1) (1) (2).pdf title UKSA Response to PQ47058
tabling member	4388 label Biography information for Philip Boswell

528539

registered interest
date	24/06/2016
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	Unpaid Work
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to gather data on the prevalence of paid and unpaid internships.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	41208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no current plans to quantify the number of paid and unpaid interns. There is no legal definition of an intern, but all those who qualify as ‘workers’ are entitled to the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 04/07/2016 09:32:33 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

528540

registered interest
date	24/06/2016
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	Unpaid Work
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 policy is on introducing a legal or standard definition of an internship.
tabling member constituency	Copeland
tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
uin	41209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to create a legal or standard definition of an internship.</p><p>Depending on the reality of the employment relationship an intern could be classed as a worker, an employee or a volunteer.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 04/07/2016 09:29:24 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed