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  • Chris Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Chris Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Leslie on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses received support through the UK Guarantees Exports Refinancing Facility in 2013-14.

    Michael Fallon

    Following the Chancellor’s announcement in the 2014 Budget UK Export Finance formally launched the Export Refinancing Facility (ERF) on 30 April 2014.

    ERF is aimed at supporting UK bids for projects that require finance above $150m. As these projects typically involve lengthy contract negotiations, it may be sometime before we see a pipeline of deals that benefit from the ERF.

  • Bridget Phillipson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Bridget Phillipson – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Bridget Phillipson on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2014, Official Report, column 744W, on National Careers Service, what assessment his Department has made of the National Careers Service’s progress in achieving its key strategic aims for marketing.

    Matthew Hancock

    The National Careers Service marketing strategy using targeted on-line activity has been pursued since October 2013.

    Through regular market research we have seen an increase in awareness[1] of the support the National Careers Service offers since the campaign started from 24 per cent to 29 per cent. All of the targeted groups show a greater awareness than the remainder of those sampled:

    · Awareness among individuals looking to advance their career has increased by 28 per cent increase to 39 per cent;

    · Awareness among those who are looking for a better job to support a change in circumstances has increased by 14 per cent to 32 per cent;

    · Awareness among those who have been or are about to be made redundant has remained broadly the same with 37 per cent aware of the Service.

    Over 56 per cent of these three groups are likely to use the Service, compared with only 8 per cent of others surveyed.

    [1] Both spontaneous and prompted.

  • Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alun Cairns on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when his Department plans to publish its response to the consultation on Streamlining Regulatory and Competition Appeals launched in June 2013; and on what timetable he intends to introduce reforms arising from that consultation.

    Jenny Willott

    We hope to publish the Government response before Summer. Any legislative changes we decide to make will be taken forward when Parliamentary time permits.

  • Liam Byrne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Liam Byrne – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Liam Byrne on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the cost was of the recent triennial review of the Research Councils.

    Mr David Willetts

    The cost of the review primarily relates to the salary costs of review team members, who undertook the review as a corporate objective alongside their existing responsibilities. On average, the review team spent around 10% of their weekly core work hours on the review across its duration. There were additional costs associated with the extensive stakeholder engagement and in year awards to review team members to recognise their personal contribution in completing the review. These awards are consistent with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ (BIS) In-Year Awards policy of recognising and rewarding contributions to business performance and demonstrating the BIS values.

    The estimated maximum total cost to BIS of the review team is £81,350, which represents 0.002% of total Research Council funding.

  • Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graeme Morrice on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has any plans to end the employee trade union membership dues check-off system.

    Jenny Willott

    I have no plans to end the Department’s check-off arrangements.

  • Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Graeme Morrice on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many meetings his Department has had for which the check off system of paying trade union fees was on the agenda.

    Mr Francis Maude

    As was the case under the previous administration, details of internal meetings are not normally published.

    Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations are published at:https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications.

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  • Simon Danczuk – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

    Simon Danczuk – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Deputy Prime Minister

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Simon Danczuk on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what steps he is taking in support of Action 12 of the EU Citizenship Report 2013, com (2013) 269.

    Greg Clark

    The issue of voting in domestic elections is a matter for national governments and we do not accept the Commission’s view of a European Public Space.

  • Charlotte Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Charlotte Leslie – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Charlotte Leslie on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate how much Government departments have spent on filtering tap water for drinking in each of the last four years.

    Mr Nick Hurd

    The information requested is not held centrally. However, as part of this Government’s commitment to reducing waste and driving down costs, we are challenging departments on the need to make savings from facilities management.

  • Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ivan Lewis on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what support the Emergency Planning College has provided to the planning and preparation for the Giro D’Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014.

    Mr Oliver Letwin

    The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has had no requests for direct support of the planning and preparation for the Giro D’Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014. The EPC has however delivered a variety of civil protection and resilience planning courses in Northern Ireland for various organisations, including Sports NI.

    The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has provided 79 courses on emergency planning and crises management courses to 1170 attendees delivered in Northern Ireland since 2006. In addition to the training provided for customer organisations in NI, the EPC has trained 358 practitioners from NI attending residential training courses at the EPC since 2006

  • Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Cabinet Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ivan Lewis on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many training courses the Emergency Planning College has provided in Northern Ireland in each year since the college was established; and how many people from Northern Ireland have completed such training courses.

    Mr Oliver Letwin

    The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has had no requests for direct support of the planning and preparation for the Giro D’Italia Big Start in Northern Ireland in May 2014. The EPC has however delivered a variety of civil protection and resilience planning courses in Northern Ireland for various organisations, including Sports NI.

    The Emergency Planning College (EPC) has provided 79 courses on emergency planning and crises management courses to 1170 attendees delivered in Northern Ireland since 2006. In addition to the training provided for customer organisations in NI, the EPC has trained 358 practitioners from NI attending residential training courses at the EPC since 2006