Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many jobs his Department estimates would be created by the completion of the Digital Single Market.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Department has made no estimation of the number of jobs that would be created by the Digital Single Market. According to the European Parliament, completing the Digital Single Market could add €415bn or around 3% to the EU’s GDP.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeships were created in the tourism sector in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2014-15.
Answered by Nick Boles
The number of apprenticeship starts in the ‘Leisure, Travel and Tourism’ Sector Subject Area by academic year are shown in Table 1.
Table 1 - Apprenticeship starts, 2010/11 to 2014/15
Sector Subject Area | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 |
Leisure, Travel and Tourism | 21,590 | 19,770 | 14,360 | 11,350 | 13,070 |
We are committed to reaching 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020. There were 2.4 million apprenticeship starts over the previous Parliament.
Apprenticeships are paid jobs and their availability is dependent on employers offering opportunities and hiring apprentices.
The figures in the table are found in the apprenticeship data library:
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time police officers worked in the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The current (2015-16) established strength for the unit is;
0.5 x Detective Chief Inspector
1 x Detective Inspector
2 x Detective Sergeant
2 x Police Staff Investigator
2 x Analyst
2 x Researcher
1 x Communications officer
We do not have historical figures for staff numbers available, but the team has been of the same approximate size since inception.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's spending on the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit was in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Intellectual Property Office has funded the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit as follows;
(a) 2013-14 £0.975m
(b) 2014-15 £1.423m
(c) 2015-16 £0.677m billed to September 2015 (funding period still ongoing)
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his Department's planned expenditure on the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit is for (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Intellectual Property Office has committed to provision of £1.5m funding for the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in 2016-17. Funding beyond that period is still to be determined.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of how many full time police officers will work in the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19 and (d) 2019-20.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
The Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit is funded by the Intellectual Property Office, but is considered operationally independent, and is fully managed by the City of London Police. Future staffing levels will be a matter for the City of London Police to determine in the light of the unit’s workload and requirements.
Asked by: Maria Eagle (Labour - Liverpool Garston)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many successful convictions were secured by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.
Answered by Lord Vaizey of Didcot
Figures for the years in question are as follows;
(a) 2013-14, 16 arrests, 2 cautions
(b) 2014-15, 33 arrests, 11 cautions
(c) 2015-16, 13 arrests, 1 caution, 1 conviction
Securing convictions is not the sole aim of the unit. Equally important in the fight against IP crime is the Unit’s work on taking down infringing websites and pursuing broader disruptive activity.