Results 1-20 of 1,123 for speaker:Lord Cotter
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Music Companies: Finance (22 April 2013)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many music companies in the past year have obtained loans under (1) the Funding for Lending Scheme, (2) the National Loan Guarantee Scheme, (3) Community Development Finance, (4) Enterprise Finance Guarantee, (5) Business Finance Partnership, (6) Business Finance Partnership: Small Business Tranche, and (7) Government- backed start-up loans.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Music Companies: Finance (22 April 2013)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many music companies have in the past year obtained investment under (1) the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, (2) the Enterprise Investment Scheme, (3) the Venture Capital Trusts Scheme, (4) the Business Angel Co-Investment Fund, (5) the Enterprise Capital Funds, and (6) the UK Innovation Investment Fund.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Music Companies: Finance (27 March 2013)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many music companies have accessed finance under (1) the Regional Growth Fund, and (2) the Growing Places Fund.
- Medical Research: International Rare Diseases Research Consortium — Question (28 February 2013)
Lord Cotter: My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for his interest in rare conditions. I declare an interest as my wife, like many others, has suffered from birth from arthrogryposis, a neuromuscular condition. She received a correct diagnosis only at the age of 52 years. Even now, in her 70s, she is struggling to receive appropriate treatment. Would the Minister consider seriously Rare Disease...
- Retail: Business Rates — Question (12 February 2013)
Lord Cotter: What are the Government doing about the situation, which has long applied, whereby small shops proportionately pay a large amount more than supermarkets do in business rates? In proportion, they pay an enormous amount more.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Public Sector: Contractors (27 November 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they will take to determine whether sub-contractors of public sector construction contracts are paid by their contractors in a full and timely manner; and whether those steps will include unannounced inspections.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Public Sector: Contractors (27 November 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of non-payment on public sector contracts have been reported to the Efficiency and Reform Group to date; and what actions the Efficiency and Reform Group has taken to resolve those complaints.
- Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises — Question (22 November 2012)
Lord Cotter: Does the Minister agree that we need to continue with increasing competition within banking in the country, have greater transparency and more locally focused initiatives to lend to SMEs, as happens in the USA and Germany, for example?
- Employment: Science and Technology — Question (20 November 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to encourage young people to pursue careers in the science and technology based industries, and in manufacturing.
- Employment: Science and Technology — Question (20 November 2012)
Lord Cotter: I thank the Minister for that Answer. There is still a very big issue here when it comes to young people and careers advice and guidance. Does the Minister agree that we should have far more face-to-face help for young people? Many need encouraging to go into manufacturing and technology. Would he agree that this Government need to emphasise this face to face, rather than by looking at computers?
- Winterbourne View — Statement (30 October 2012)
Lord Cotter: My Lords-
- Winterbourne View — Statement (30 October 2012)
Lord Cotter: My Lords, I very much welcome the mention of training once again today. It is so important that support workers are trained. One issue that has come to my notice quite frequently is that through a lack of training, support workers question the trained professionals an awful lot. The management also need to be trained to back up the professionals who are trained in their job as a vocation, so...
- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises — Question (23 October 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to address the issue of late payments to small and medium-sized enterprises.
- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises — Question (23 October 2012)
Lord Cotter: I thank the Minister for his Answer. Will he and his officials look at the important reports and surveys carried out by the Federation of Small Businesses and the British Chambers of Commerce and note their recommendations? There is a lot of very good information in there. I am glad that the Government have improved their record on payment, but it is still not satisfactory that local councils...
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Creative Industries: Loans (10 July 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will support the provision in the European Union's Creative Europe proposal for a loan guarantee scheme for the creative industries; and what representations they have received from creative industries about this proposal.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Creative Industries: Loans (4 July 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises in the creative industries they envisage will access finance under the economic stimulus package announced on 15 June.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Creative Industries: Loans (3 July 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to develop a loan guarantee scheme to benefit small and medium sized enterprises working within the creative industries.
- Written Answers — House of Lords: Creative Industries: Loans (3 July 2012)
Lord Cotter: To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of small and medium sized enterprises in the creative industries they envisage will access finance under the economic stimulus package announced on 15 June.