Business, Innovation and Skills

written question – answered on 27 January 2011.

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  • Asbestos: Canada

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether he has discussed with Ministers in the government of (a) Canada and (b) Quebec the investment of each in the mining of...

  • Banks: Northern Ireland

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what meetings he has had with representatives of the banking sector in Northern Ireland in the last 12 months.

  • Business: Higher Education

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what actions the Technology Strategy Board undertook in each of the last five years to improve the relationship between...

  • Devolved Administrations

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions he has had with the devolved administrations on activities to promote competitiveness.

  • Export: Burma

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the monetary value of exports to Burma was in each of the last three years; and what were the main products so exported.

  • Exports: China

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps his Department is taking to reduce administrative burdens on the issuing of export licences for small and medium-sized...

  • Financial Inclusion Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many debt advisers have been funded through the Financial Inclusion Fund in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c)...

  • Financial Inclusion Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of people who have received debt advice funded through the Financial Inclusion Fund in...

  • Further Education: Ashfield

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many young people resident in Ashfield constituency participated in further education (a) in the academic year 2009-10 and...

  • Higher Education: Finance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether funding for higher education institutions in London to take account of additional costs in London will be additional to...

  • Higher Education: Sanctions

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what sanctions will be imposed on higher education institutions which do not comply with an access agreement made with the...

  • Livingston and Riccarton

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will meet (a) management and (b) employees of Aptuit to discuss that company's proposal to close its sites at Livingston...

  • Local Enterprise Partnerships: Bournemouth

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has for local enterprise partnerships in the Bournemouth area; and if he will make a statement.

  • London Post Office Railway

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will assess the merits of selling the London Post Office Railway separate to other changes to the ownership structure of...

  • Microfinance

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of his Department's project budget has been spent on microfinance projects in the last three years for which...

  • Office for Fair Access: Manpower

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many staff he expects to be employed by the Office of Fair Access in each of the next three years; and if he will make a...

  • Postal Services: Livingston

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will assess the potential effects on the universal service obligation in Livingston constituency of implementation of his...

  • Postal Services: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will make representations to the Royal Mail on recent delays to the delivery of letters and parcels; and if he will...

  • Postal Services: Standards

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will assess the Royal Mail postal delivery backlogs affecting (a) domestic and (b) international post and their effects...

  • Regional Growth Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department plans to publish a shortlist of regional growth fund projects for consideration by the Independent...

  • Regional Growth Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the total value is of the bids received for the first round of the regional growth fund.

  • Regional Growth Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many bids his Department has received for the first round of the regional growth fund in each Government office region.

  • Regional Growth Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether unsuccessful bids for the first round of the regional growth fund will be considered for inclusion in future rounds.

  • Regional Growth Fund

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of bids received for the first round of the regional growth fund were submitted by local enterprise partnerships...

  • Regulatory Regime for Debt Recovery Companies

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department plans to review the regulatory regime for debt recovery companies.

  • Students: Debts

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions he has had with the Council of Mortgage Lenders about the effects of student debt on likely levels of mortgage...

  • UN Special Representative on Business: Human Rights

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent meetings (a) he, (b) Ministers and (c) officials in his Department have had with the UN Special Representative on...

  • Unfair Dismissal

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans he has for the future length of a period of continuous employment which qualifies entitlement to unfair dismissal rights.