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512910

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 whether the same data protection and privatisation obligations will apply for the company carrying out the functions of the Land Registry in the event that it is privatised under the (a) Government's preferred model of privatisation with a contract between the Government and a private operator and (b) alternative model of privatisation with independent economic regulation.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	34134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Government recognises the importance of data protection and data security. Data protection maintains confidence in the integrity of the register and the services of Land Registry. Under all the proposals put forward in the consultation, statutory data collected through core statutory functions would continue to be owned by government.</p><p>In addition, a private sector operator would be a data processor and would be required to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. This controls how personal information is used by organisations, businesses or government.</p><p>Everyone responsible for using data has to follow strict rules called ‘data protection principles’. They must make sure the information is:</p><ul><li>used fairly and lawfully;</li><li>used for limited, specifically stated purposes;</li><li>used in a way that is adequate, relevant and not excessive;</li><li>accurate and kept up to date;</li><li>kept for no longer than is necessary;</li><li>handled according to people’s data protection rights;</li><li>kept safe and secure.</li></ul><p>All data controllers are accountable to the Information Commissioner who has powers to enforce data protection law and impose sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/04/2016 12:42:51 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

512912

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the obligations for public bodies set out in the HM Treasury document, Managing Public Money, published in July 2013, will apply to the company given control of the operational functions of the Land Registry in the event that it is privatised under the (a) Government's preferred model of privatisation with contract between the Government and a private operator and (b) alternative model of privatisation with independent economic regulation.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	34135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>Managing Public Money principles only apply to public sector bodies, and therefore no privatised bodies will fall under its guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/04/2016 12:43:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

512914

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the statutory duties imposed on the independent regulator will ensure that fees for (a) statutory functions and (b) non-statutory functions of the Land Registry will (i) not increase above operating costs and (ii) not increase above inflation in the event that the Land Registry is privatised under the Government's alternative model of privatisation with economic regulation.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	34074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>Under a contract-based approach, fees would still be prescribed in fee orders made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and set before Parliament. Under a regulator-based approach, fees would be controlled by the regulator.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 34073 question first answered 28/04/2016 14:16:23 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

512915

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Land Registry: Privatisation
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 the increase of fees for (a) statutory and (b) non-statutory functions of the Land Registry above (i) operating costs and (ii) inflation in the event that the Land Registry is privatised under the Government's preferred model of privatisation with a contract between Government and a private operator.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	34073
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2016 answer text <p>Under a contract-based approach, fees would still be prescribed in fee orders made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and set before Parliament. Under a regulator-based approach, fees would be controlled by the regulator.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 34074 question first answered 28/04/2016 14:16:23 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

512916

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Business: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which regulations he has asked the EU Commission to (a) amend and (b) repeal on the basis of their effects on businesses in the UK.
tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
uin	34068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government regularly presses the European Commission to amend or repeal EU rules in order to minimise the regulatory burdens imposed on UK business.</p><p>In particular, we do this through the European Commission’s Regulatory Fitness (REFIT) programme – established in 2012 to review the stock of existing EU legislation in order to identify burdens, inconsistencies, gaps or ineffective measures and address them. This has generated progress in areas of significant UK priority, including Occupational Health and Safety and the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) – where the Commission’s 2016 Work Programme put forward burden-cutting proposals</p><p>Overall, the Commission’s 2015 and 2016 Work Programmes proposed 100 withdrawals or modifications of pending proposals, and 39 repeals and 56 evaluations of existing EU laws.</p><p>As part of the UK’s settlement with the EU, the European Commission is committed to reviewing the burden of regulation each year and introducing specific targets to reduce costs for businesses in the most burdensome areas.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 22/04/2016 12:41:19 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

512919

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Artificial Intelligence
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 he is taking to support research into and development of machine learning.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	33949
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills supports the research and development of machine learning through the Research Councils, for example the current Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council portfolio contains nearly 150 research and training grants involving aspects of artificial intelligence.</p><p>The Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Hartree Centre uses high performance computing combined with big data analytics, cognitive computing and visualisation techniques to collaborate with industry and research partners. The latest government investment of £113 million at Hartree in a cognitive and data centric computing centre (announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement) has attracted inward investment from IBM and other hi-tech industry exceeding £200 million.</p><p>Research Councils also support existing machine learning applications, for example the Medical Research Council support programmes which involve the use of machine learning tools for image analysis and in analysing and predicting risk of Serious Adverse Events for hospital patients.</p><p>The Arts and Humanities Research Council also support aspects of research and development on machine learning relating to its importance within the rapidly emerging field of the digital humanities and issues relating to ethical, philosophical, legal and historical perspectives of machine learning and human-computer interactions.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 20/04/2016 14:56:00 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

512925

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Broadband: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on the rollout of superfast broadband (a) in Cheltenham and (b) across the South West.
tabling member constituency	Cheltenham
tabling member printed	Alex Chalk
uin	33972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2016 answer text <p>The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire local broadband project team are currently not operating in the Cheltenham constituency. Based on DCMS modelled estimates and current delivery plans, it is estimated that 94% of premises in the Cheltenham constituency will have access to superfast broadband as a result of commercial coverage. In addition all premises which cannot currently get 2Mbps will be able take advantage of a subsidised satellite broadband service which can deliver speeds of 10Mbps or more.</p><p> </p><p>DCMS has also placed estimates of superfast coverage at constituency level at the end of the current broadband programme in the House of Commons library, reference DEP2015-0163:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&amp;td=2015-04-01&amp;house=1&amp;search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&amp;itemId=122028#toggle-163" target="_blank">http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/deposited-papers/?fd=2015-02-01&amp;td=2015-04-01&amp;house=1&amp;search_term=Department+for+Culture%2c+Media+and+Sport&amp;itemId=122028#toggle-163</a></p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 22/04/2016 13:46:53 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4481 label Biography information for Alex Chalk

512927

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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: Sheffield
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the costs or savings to his Department of (a) none, (b) 25 per cent, (c) 50 per cent, (d) 75 per cent and (e) 100 per cent of the staff based at the St Paul's Place office leaving his Department as a result of the closure of that office.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	34000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2016 answer text <p>If the proposal to close the BIS HQ office at St Paul’s Place goes ahead the Department would undertake to offer another round of voluntary exit proposals to staff based in Sheffield, as well as the other smaller numbers in other locations who are affected. We would also expect in such a scenario that a number of staff would find roles elsewhere, and that some members of staff might retire, as well as the possibility that redundancies might be required in some cases. Actual costs would depend on these variables. As regards any estimate of savings to the Department I refer the hon Member to my answer to his related question number UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-04-14/33959/" target="_blank">33959</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 25/04/2016 16:23:27 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

512929

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Gratuities: Public Consultation
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 10 March 2016 to Question 30709, when he expects his Department's response to the call for evidence on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges to be published.
tabling member constituency	Colchester
tabling member printed	Will Quince
uin	34008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government is analysing the responses to the Call for Evidence on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges, with a view to announcing its next steps shortly.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/04/2016 14:59:42 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4423 label Biography information for Will Quince

512931

registered interest
date	14/04/2016
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the average time it will take to process an application for temporary disabled students' allowance after changes to that allowance; and whose responsibility it will be to assist applicants with such applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	34012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>We are working with higher education institutions to encourage the speedy resolution of disputes between a student and their institution as to whether support should be provided as a reasonable adjustment. The Student Loans Company will consider providing interim support in the form of Disabled Students’ Allowances through a new Exceptional Case Process where a resolution is not achieved prior to the student starting their course. This will ensure eligible disabled students are not left without support during this period.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 20/04/2016 14:49:07 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe