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65851

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Self-employed
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been registered as self-employed in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	204098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQs 204081, 204082 and 204098.pdf title ONS Letter to Member 2 file name PQ306-308.xlsx title Tables on Employment question first answered 08/07/2014 15:05:39 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

65855

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Part-time Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were employed on a part-time basis in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	204081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ306-308.xlsx title Tables on Employment 2 file name PQs 204081, 204082 and 204098.pdf title ONS Letter to Member question first answered 08/07/2014 15:05:39 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

65856

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people were employed on a full-time basis in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Jarrow
tabling member printed	Mr Stephen Hepburn
uin	204082
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd attachment 1 file name PQ306-308.xlsx title Tables on Employment 2 file name PQs 204081, 204082 and 204098.pdf title ONS Letter to Member question first answered 08/07/2014 15:05:39 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	520 label Biography information for Mr Stephen Hepburn

65857

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Credit: EU Law
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether consumer credit firms and peer-to-peer platforms located outside the UK but within the European Economic Area will (a) need to be authorised or supervised by the Financial Conduct Authority and (b) continue to be able to lend money online to UK consumers under the terms of the EU Electronic Commerce Directive.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	204077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p>In general, firms which are established outside the UK and which carry on a regulated activity in the UK require permission from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and come under FCA supervision.</p><p> </p><p>Consumer credit firms and peer-to-peer platforms which are established outside the UK but within the European Economic Area (EEA) may only provide services in the UK without permission from the FCA if they do so as an ‘information society services’ (ISS) under the Electronic Commerce Directive. This means that the firm must be operating exclusively online and have no physical presence in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has announced that it intends to give the FCA new powers to take action against credit firms trying to abuse its rights under the E-Commerce Directive to avoid FCA regulation.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 22/07/2014 08:48:10 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

65861

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Consumers: Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many consumer credit firms and peer-to-peer platforms located outside the UK, but within the European Economic Area and which lend money online to UK consumers have been granted interim permission to trade by the Financial Conduct Authority.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	204062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>This information is contained on the Financial Conduct Authority’s Interim Permission Consumer Credit Register which is available online.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://fca-consumer-credit-interim.force.com/CS_RegisterSearchPageNew" target="_blank">http://fca-consumer-credit-interim.force.com/CS_RegisterSearchPageNew</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 21/07/2014 16:07:54 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

65863

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion of the total workforce of such contractors is made up by apprentices.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	204067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally. To provide it would involve contacting numerous current and former suppliers. This could only be done at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 15/07/2014 14:35:04 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

65866

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Landlords: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the register of landlords in Scotland in reducing bad practice.
tabling member constituency	Hertford and Stortford
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Prisk
uin	204056
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Coalition Government supports a bigger and better private rented sector and is keen to minimise the burden of regulation on the vast majority of good landlords. Excessive red tape would just force up rents and reduce choice and supply for tenants.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We believe that imposing a national register of landlords would be disproportionate and unfairly penalise good landlords who are fully compliant with their obligations. It would cost an estimated £40 million a year – costs which ultimately would be passed on to tenants in higher rents.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As an alternative to such regulation, we support the use of voluntary accreditation by local authorities coupled with strong enforcement action to crack down on the small minority of rogue landlords who rent out overcrowded and dilapidated property. Voluntary accreditation helps drive up standards and increase levels of professionalism amongst landlords.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have not formally assessed Scotland's scheme, but I note that an answer to a Parliamentary Question in the Scottish Parliament in January 2013 noted that since the scheme was introduced in 2006, it had cost landlords £11 million in fees and a further £5 million in costs to taxpayers, but only 40 landlords had been refused in total over that period out of almost 200,000 landlord registrations. This suggests that such state regulation had not been effective at tackling rogue landlords despite significant costs imposed on the whole rented sector.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/07/2014 15:54:49 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1424 label Biography information for Mr Mark Prisk

65868

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the new Model Tenancy Agreement will be published.
tabling member constituency	Hertford and Stortford
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Prisk
uin	204054
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>We plan to publish the Model Tenancy Agreement later in the summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/07/2014 12:43:58 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1424 label Biography information for Mr Mark Prisk

65869

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Private Rented Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when his Department intends to publish the results of the review of residential property conditions.
tabling member constituency	Hertford and Stortford
tabling member printed	Mr Mark Prisk
uin	204055
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>DCLG published a discussion document earlier this year, which invited views on what more could be done to improve property conditions in the private rented sector and tackle rogue landlords. Responses are now being considered and we will publish our response along with a summary of the views submitted later this summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 14/07/2014 12:43:11 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1424 label Biography information for Mr Mark Prisk

65870

registered interest
date	04/07/2014
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	Treasure Act 1996
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the current timetable is for the review of the Treasure Act 1996; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
tabling member printed	Sir Andrew Stunell
uin	204094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The review of the Treasure Act 1996 (the Act) and Treasure Code of Practice will take the form of a public consultation. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is working with the British Museum and other stakeholders in preparation of this. DCMS will confirm the timetable for the review at consultation. Any new Code of Practice must be laid before Parliament and changes to the definition of treasure in the Act remain subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2014 11:20:31 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	445 label Biography information for Lord Stunell