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  • Kate Green – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    Kate Green – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2014-04-28.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether all staff employed by Atos Healthcare to perform the company’s contract with his Department for the conduct of work capability assessments will receive full protection under TUPE provisions.

    Mike Penning

    When Atos Healthcare withdraws from the delivery of work capability assessments in February 2015, a new national provider will be brought in. It is expected that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations will apply and most of the Atos Healthcare employees will transfer to the new provider.

  • 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, with reference to page 204 of HM Treasury’s Central Government and Supply Estimates 2013-14, February 2014, HC 1006, if he will provide a breakdown of the £15.877 million supplementary estimate for the increase in costs of student loan debt sale.

    Mr David Willetts

    The Supplementary Estimate adjustment for the student loan debt sale relates to the Government subsidising the sale of student loans in 1998 and 1999. The adjustment reflects changes to the value of the Government liability following annual debt sale subsidy payments, including adjustments for cancelled loans.

    The subsidy will continue until all the loans are extinguished which is expected to be no earlier than 2028, which is the 30 year duration of the first debt sale agreement.

    Further details of the liability are available in the BIS Annual Report and Accounts.

  • 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.

  • Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

    Ivan Lewis – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

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

    To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many fines of what total value have been imposed by HM Revenue and Customs on employers in Northern Ireland in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012 and (d) 2014 to date.

    Mr David Gauke

    This question has been taken as asking about fines related to non-payment of the NMW.

    The Government takes the enforcement of NMW very seriously and HMRC enforce the national minimum wage legislation on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). It does that by investigating all complaints made about employers suspected of not paying the minimum wage, in addition to carrying out targeted enforcement where it identifies a high risk of non-payment of NMW across the whole of the UK.

    Prior to 6 April 2009, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) issued penalty notices to those employers who failed to comply, within 28 days, with an enforcement notice. A new enforcement regime, introduced in April 2009, saw the introduction of automatic penalties for employers who are found to have underpaid their workers.

    The number and value of penalties issued to Northern Ireland employers for the calendar years 2010-14 is set out in the following table:

    2010

    2011

    2012

    2013

    Number

    63

    43

    30

    20

    Value

    £33,635

    £49,135

    £41,110

    £40,724
  • Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

    Alun Cairns – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture Media and Sport

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

    To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect on industry of delays in the implementation of the Government’s proposals to streamline regulatory and competition appeals.

    Mr Edward Vaizey

    No such assessment has been made. Ministers are currently considering the responses received to the consultation. They will then decide the scope and extent of proposals to be implemented.

  • Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Graeme Morrice – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

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

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

    Elizabeth Truss

    I refer the hon. Member to the response published 1 April 2014, Official Report, Column 632W.

  • Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism, whether his Department plans to employ further exclusion advisors.

    Mr Edward Timpson

    The Department for Education does not employ any exclusion advisors.

    The exclusion adviser referred to in the answer of 4 March 2014, Official Report, columns 787-88W, on pupil exclusions: autism is employed by the National Autistic Society using a grant provided by the Department under the National Prospectus Grants Programme 2013-15.

  • Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    Kerry McCarthy – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kerry McCarthy on 2014-04-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March 2014, Official Report, column 112W, on alcoholic drinks: counterfeit manufacturing, if he will carry out an assessment of the (a) scale of and (b) effect on public health of counterfeit alcohol in the UK.

    Jane Ellison

    I have been asked to reply.

    There are slightly different issues concerning illicit, i.e. untaxed, smuggled and diverted alcohol, or counterfeit alcohol, i.e. attempting to copy existing well-known brands.

    The Food Standards Agency (FSA) works in partnership with all United Kingdom local authorities to tackle the production, distribution and sale of illicit alcohol. HM Revenue and Customs also works collaboratively with other UK enforcement agencies to tackle this threat. The Department of Health is concerned with any implications of these issues for alcohol policy.

    The feasibility and costs of making any reliable estimates of the illicit and counterfeit alcohol markets would need to be considered. Government has no plans to make such estimates, other than the estimates published by HM Revenue and Customs for the illicit spirits market at:

    www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-tax-gaps

    We will jointly keep these issues under review.

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  • Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Wales Office

    Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Wales Office

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-05-06.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what assessment he has made of the net benefits to people in Wales of the UK’s membership of the EU.

    Mr David Jones

    I refer the hon Gentleman to the answer I gave to the members for Delyn, Cardiff West and Ogmore earlier today.

  • Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    Julie Elliott – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Elliott on 2014-05-02.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the amount of private-sector investment committed to large-scale solar PV farm projects in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect of an early reduction in Renewables Obligation support on those levels of investment.

    Gregory Barker

    We do not hold data on the amount of private investment committed to large scale solar PV projects.