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Written Answers — Treasury: Money Lenders (20 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The Financial Services Authority is not responsible for tackling illegal money lending. Until April 2012 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills directly funded trading standards to take on complex cases which crossed individual local authority boundaries. This included setting up Tackling...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Debts: Advisory Services (19 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: All those offering consumers support with debt problems should be licensed by the Office of Fair Trading. They set the standards they expect to see from businesses (whether commercial or charitable) offering debt management services. The Government are also working closely with all sides of this industry, including creditors, to see whether a best practice protocol of debt management can...

Written Answers — Women and Equalities: Public Appointments (19 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: The following payments were made for the services of recruitment consultants in respect of the recruitments to the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Women's National Commission. £ Recruitment consultant 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Rockpools 46,588 0 0 0 0 0 Appointments Commission(1) 0 0 91,833 25,209 12,885 0 Gatenby Sanderson 0 0 0 0 0...

Justice and Security Bill [Lords] (18 Dec 2012)

Division number 125 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous David Amess Stuart Andrew Richard Bacon Tony Baldry Harriett Baldwin Stephen Barclay John Baron Gavin Barwell Sir Alan Beith Henry Bellingham Paul Beresford Andrew Bingham Gordon Birtwistle Bob Blackman Hazel Blears Crispin Blunt Nick Boles Peter Bottomley Tom Brake Angie Bray Julian...

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: New Clause 3 - Sunsetting provisions and replacement of current code on statutory footing (18 Dec 2012)

Ian Murray: ...a statutory footing. If there were any breaches of the code or any competition issues, the Government could, as in many other instances, refer such issues to the Competition Commission or the OFT. Jo Swinson rose—

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: New Clause 2 - Extension of groceries code (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: ...from the Competition Commission. The new clause would allow significant regulatory creep. It would place new obligations on suppliers to other suppliers and potentially to retailers. Such a major extension should not be based just on anecdotal experiences and created on a whim by a ministerial decision that says, “Well, we should do this.” It should be based on proper market...

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: Clause 19 - Levy funding (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: The hon. Gentleman mentions the use of the word “may” and alludes to an amendment that he might table on Report. I suggest that it is a permission rather than a requirement to have differentiated levies. In the scenario where there were, for example, no investigations required, there were few arbitrations or nothing was found to have been done wrong by the retailers, the adjudicator might...

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: Clause 23 - Orders (18 Dec 2012)

Amendment made: 12, in clause 23, page 10, line 21, leave out ‘9(1) or’.—(Jo Swinson.)

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: Clause 26 - Short title (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: I beg to move amendment 13, in clause 26, page 11, line 3, leave out subsection (2). One of the lovely things about this place that one can move technical amendments relating to little-known procedures. Amendment 13 is routine and is necessary to remove the subsection that prevents the other place from having any control over money matters. I am informed that this happens with every...

Public Bill Committee: Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]: Clause 18 - Confidentiality (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: Given the importance of the clause, I welcome the opportunity to probe it and to get clarity for the Committee about its strong protections of confidentiality. My hon. Friend was a key campaigner to ensure that we could have third-party complaints. It is important that there is confidentiality in terms of the climate of fear. It is therefore important to ensure that the Bill works as...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Communications Data Bill (Draft) (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: According to records held by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, one overseas-owned multinational company raised concerns about the draft Bill during a meeting to discuss a number of issues of interest to that company.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Communications Data Bill (Draft) (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: To the best of my knowledge the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, my right hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), has received one formal representation on the draft Bill. The Secretary of State discusses a wide range of issues regularly with colleagues in the House. The Home Office is the lead Department for the draft Communications Data Bill and we are...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Computers (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: At the end of Q2 (2012-13) the quarterly user charge which is based on 3,662 users including service provisions such as printing was £407 per user. The IT is provided through a Fujitsu outsourced contract which is due to end in 2014 for which the desktop charging model includes other service items and it is therefore not always possible to make a valid comparison with other desktop services...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Cosmetics: EU Law (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: holding answer 17 December 2012 Day-to-day enforcement of the regulations is the responsibility of local authority Trading Standards services. Trading Standards have access to the safety assessment dossiers which companies must retain for the cosmetic products they supply. These dossiers will contain information on how any testing has been carried out. The Department will work with Trading...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employee Ownership (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: We want this scheme to be flexible and open to all companies and employees who would benefit from it. It will be up to the employer and employee owner to determine the conditions for buy-back including how to establish a fair price. The Government will be providing guidance to assist both parties in how to do this.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employee Ownership (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: It is the Government's intention to ensure that this status is available to all companies with share capital. The Government amendments tabled on 7 December 2012 ensured that overseas companies and European companies would be able to use the status. The employing company will also be able to grant shares in a parent company (which could be an overseas company).

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employee Ownership (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: ...related to issuing shares to their employee owners. The costs of putting in place an employee share scheme will vary significantly depending on the characteristics and size of a company. The majority of these costs will be one-off costs. This suggests that on aggregate, there would be an overall net benefit to companies that use the status. There may also be costs to businesses of...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employee Ownership (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: The eligibility criteria are clearly set out in clause 27 of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill. They are that all companies with share capital, including overseas companies and European companies, may offer this type of contract and the individual must accept the contract and receive at least £2,000 worth of shares.

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: Employee Ownership (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: The employee shareholder status is only open to entities which are companies limited by shares. Companies are free to make choices about what type of employment contracts they offer and the Government consider that companies are best placed to decide how they hire people. It is possible that some companies may only offer employee shareholder contracts in the same way that they can currently...

Written Answers — Business, Innovation and Skills: EU Law (18 Dec 2012)

Jo Swinson: Information on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' (BIS) implementation of EU law has not until recently been collected centrally. Consequently we will need to draw information both on the transposition of directives and introduction of regulations to implement EU legislation for the years 2011 and 2012 from a number of sources. For EU measures where impact assessments have...


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