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455185

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to reply to the letter of 18 January 2016 from the hon. Member for North East Fife on the Royal Mail's dismissal of David Mitchell.
tabling member constituency	North East Fife
tabling member printed	Stephen Gethins
uin	28442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2016 answer text <p>I replied to the hon. Member on 4 March.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 08/03/2016 14:41:01 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4434 label Biography information for Stephen Gethins

455192

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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, how many representations he has received on the exploitation of unpaid trials in the (a) service, (b) print and (c) retail sector.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	28558
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, BIS Ministers and officials are in frequent contact with a wide range of stakeholders on labour market issues, including issues around internships. The Low Pay Commission also consults on a range of issues, including internships, and submits its findings to Government each year to inform its recommendations on the National Minimum Wage. We are not aware of any recent, formal representations relating only to exploitation of unpaid interns in the specified sectors.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 09/03/2016 11:52:09 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

455193

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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 assessment he has made of the prevalence of the exploitation of unpaid trials in at-risk sectors.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	28559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2016 answer text <p>Entitlement to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) applies where someone meets the criteria of a worker. There is no legal or consistently-used definition of an internship and therefore no authoritative, single assessment of their prevalence, unpaid or otherwise. However, the Low Pay Commission 2015 Report on the National Minimum Wage sets out their findings from the evidence they have collated as well as research that they have commissioned to assess the prevalence of unpaid internships.</p><p>The Government works to promote high-quality, paid internships through improved codes of practice, awareness campaigns and changes to the BIS-sponsored Graduate Talent Pool. We also continue to tackle exploitation. The Government invested over £13m in 2015/16 to ensure enforcement of the NMW and we continue to name and shame employers who break minimum wage law.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 11/03/2016 17:00:06 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

455194

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department spent from the public purse on industrial tribunals in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 2 March 2016 by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice to Question <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-25/28629/" target="_blank">28629</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/03/2016 15:39:56 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455195

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Consultants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many consultants' contracts were terminated early in each of the last six years for which figures are available; and what the cost of each such termination was in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>During the period of the last six years there have been no early terminations of consultants’ contracts for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/03/2016 15:44:11 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455196

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) publications, (b) consultation documents and (c) circulars his Department has issued since August 2012; and what the title was of each such publication, consultation document or circular.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>My Department does not hold a central list of publications, consultations or circulars.</p><p>All publications, consultations, press releases and statistics are published on the GOV.UK website and can be found listed there:</p><p>Publications: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills</a></p><p>Consultations: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_filter_option=consultations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills&amp;publication_filter_option=consultations</a></p><p>Press releases: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/announcements?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/announcements?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills</a></p><p>Statistics: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics?departments%5B%5D=department-for-business-innovation-skills</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/03/2016 15:18:27 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455197

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Human Rights Act 1998
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2016 answer text <p>The information requested is not available because separate data for cases based wholly or partially on the Human Rights Act 1998 are not recorded.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/03/2016 15:42:13 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455198

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2016 answer text <p>The table below provides a breakdown of overtime paid and the number of claimants for each month in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) HQ, in the last 24 months from February 2014 to January 2016.</p><p>The relevant budget holder must give approval before overtime can be worked or overtime pay claimed. Overtime pay is non-pensionable and can only be paid to staff below the Senior Civil Service. Approximately 0.3% of the annual BIS paybill is paid in overtime.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Overtime Payments – BIS HQ</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of BIS HQ Staff Making Claims</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2014</p></td><td><p>£55,032.15</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2014</p></td><td><p>£73,754.92</p></td><td><p>102</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2014</p></td><td><p>£61,699.33</p></td><td><p>97</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>£38,664.16</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>£64,135.44</p></td><td><p>91</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2014</p></td><td><p>£79,053.18</p></td><td><p>106</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>£45,977.38</p></td><td><p>75</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2014</p></td><td><p>£38,306.55</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>£33,276.09</p></td><td><p>85</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2014</p></td><td><p>£44,786.28</p></td><td><p>68</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>£47,025.85</p></td><td><p>80</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>£45,380.49</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>£58,541.14</p></td><td><p>95</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March 2015</p></td><td><p>£68,139.08</p></td><td><p>99</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2015</p></td><td><p>£52,546.46</p></td><td><p>98</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May 2015</p></td><td><p>£34,257.16</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June 2015</p></td><td><p>£44,667.14</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July 2015</p></td><td><p>£55,187.86</p></td><td><p>81</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>£47,242.28</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September 2015</p></td><td><p>£27,737.41</p></td><td><p>61</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October 2015</p></td><td><p>£44,006.48</p></td><td><p>72</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>£52,376.22</p></td><td><p>74</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>£48,453.85</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2016</p></td><td><p>£52,221.58</p></td><td><p>69</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 16/03/2016 15:36:18 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455200

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Human Rights Act 1998
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil law suits have been brought against his Department based either wholly or partially on grounds provided by the Human Rights Act 1998; how many such suits were settled out of court before a court judgment was delivered; and how much such settlements have cost the public purse since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold the information that has been requested as separate data for cases based wholly or partially on the Human Rights Act 1998 are not recorded.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 14:59:58 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

455201

registered interest
date	25/02/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Overtime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has paid to staff in overtime in each of the last 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	28682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2016 answer text <p>As part of this Government’s transparency agenda, all Departments are required to publish monthly workforce statistics that includes overtime costs. This information is available from the Cabinet Office website at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/payroll-costs-and-non-consolidated-pay-data</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 04/03/2016 13:52:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth