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506224

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Air Products
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 was made aware of the decision by Air Products to exit its energy-from-waste business.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	33048
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The Government engages with Air Products in relation to their Tees Valley energy-from-waste plant at both Official and Ministerial level. My Department was first made aware of this decision on 4th April and will be working with the Local Enterprise Partnership to explore the impacts of this announcement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/04/2016 15:56:27 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

506226

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Apprentices: Finance
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 fund to increase the number of degree apprenticeships that he announced on 24 March 2016 will also apply to masters-level apprenticeships.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes South
tabling member printed	Iain Stewart
uin	33046
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The fund to increase the number of degree apprenticeships announced on 24 March 2016 applies to developing degree apprenticeships at both level 6 (bachelor’s) and level 7 (master’s).</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/04/2016 16:27:03 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart

506227

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK: Redcar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will amend the remit of the taskforce created to respond to the closure of SSI in Redcar to include the Teesside economy as a whole.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	33047
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Where there are redundancies within the Tees Valley, the Government will work with local partners, including the Tees Valley Combined Authority, the Local Enterprise Partnership and the SSI Task Force to determine how support can be most effectively targeted to affected individuals. The SSI Task Force is already supporting the Tees Valley economy more broadly, for example through the £16m Support for Businesses Schemes, which the Task Force reports has created 186 jobs, safeguarded 326 jobs and committed £4.1m funding, attracting £6m in private sector match.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/04/2016 15:58:08 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

506228

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Living Wage
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 his Department has made of the potential effect of the National Living Wage on (a) costs to businesses and (b) employee pay.
tabling member constituency	Chippenham
tabling member printed	Michelle Donelan
uin	33120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s Impact Assessment for the introduction of the National Living Wage estimates the total cost to businesses at around £1.1 billion, consisting of direct wage costs, associated non-wage labour costs, maintaining pay differentials and transition costs.</p><p>Direct costs to employers contribute just under £700 million to the total cost to raise employees’ wages to the initial rate of £7.20. This will be a direct benefit to employees from receiving higher wages.</p><p>On current OBR forecasts, a full-time National Minimum Wage worker will earn over £4,200 more by 2020 from the National Living Wage in cash terms.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 14/04/2016 16:26:23 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan

506229

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Arms Trade: Exports
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 number of jobs attributable to the arms export industry in 2014.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	33220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold this information.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 13/04/2016 16:51:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

506230

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Higher Education: Dartford
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 number of young people from Dartford who went to university in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Dartford
tabling member printed	Gareth Johnson
uin	33146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) publishes data on the entry rates for full-time undergraduate courses by parliamentary constituency. UCAS does not publish data on the number of entrants by parliamentary constituency, only entry rates.</p><p> </p><p>Latest statistics from the 2015 UCAS End of Cycle Report for the Dartford constituency are provided in the table. The entry rate is given as the proportion of 18 year olds that accepted a place during a UCAS application cycle.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p>Table: Higher Education entry rates for 18 year olds from the Dartford Constituency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>28.6%</p></td><td><p>23.2%</p></td><td><p>29.9%</p></td><td><p>27.3%</p></td><td><p>32.5%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/04/2016 15:52:13 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	3970 label Biography information for Gareth Johnson

506231

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	Students: Loans
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 has taken to ensure that the sale of the pre-2012 income contingent repayment student loan book will not affect the amount of debt current graduates owe.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	33156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2016 answer text <p>The Sale of Student Loans Act 2008 prevents Government from treating less favourably borrowers whose loans are sold, compared to the treatment of borrowers whose loans remain on the Government’s books.</p><p>After a sale, the Government continues to finance student loans and collect repayments through HM Revenue and Customs and the Student Loans Company. Purchasers will have no direct relationship with borrowers, and no power to amend the terms of repayment.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 13/04/2016 11:38:49 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

506232

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	UK Trade with EU: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) UK firms based in London that trade with other EU member states and (b) people employed by those firms.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	33162
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>HMRC Regional Trade Statistics on the number of firms trading with the EU are publically available through the UKTradeInfo website.</p><p>HM Treasury has published estimates of the number of UK jobs linked to EU exports broken down by region. These are available through the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 32610 32611 32612 32613 33159 33160 33161 33163 33164 33165 33166 question first answered 14/04/2016 15:46:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

506233

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	UK Trade with EU: South East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) UK firms based in the South East of England that trade with other EU member states and (b) people employed by those firms.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	33163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>HMRC Regional Trade Statistics on the number of firms trading with the EU are publically available through the UKTradeInfo website.</p><p>HM Treasury has published estimates of the number of UK jobs linked to EU exports broken down by region. These are available through the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 32610 32611 32612 32613 33159 33160 33161 33162 33164 33165 33166 question first answered 14/04/2016 15:46:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

506234

registered interest
date	08/04/2016
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	UK Trade with EU: South West
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will estimate the number of (a) UK firms based in the South West of England that trade with other EU member states and (b) people employed by those firms.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	33164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/04/2016 answer text <p>HMRC Regional Trade Statistics on the number of firms trading with the EU are publically available through the UKTradeInfo website.</p><p>HM Treasury has published estimates of the number of UK jobs linked to EU exports broken down by region. These are available through the GOV.UK website.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 32610 32611 32612 32613 33159 33160 33161 33162 33163 33165 33166 question first answered 14/04/2016 15:46:30 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake