Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the Government plans to implement its policy of providing three days' paid volunteering leave for employees of large organisations.
Answered by Nick Boles
The Government will be setting out plans for taking this policy forward in due course.
Asked by: Alan Johnson (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) have been made in the last two years; how many such arrangements have been renegotiated due to a change in circumstances; and for what reasons those CVAs have been unsuccessful.
Answered by Anna Soubry
The number of company voluntary arrangements for the calendar years 2014 and 2015 is shown in the table below.
Total Number of Company Voluntary Arrangements in the UK, 2014 – 2015
Company Voluntary Arrangements |
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Year | England & Wales | Scotland | Northern Ireland | Total |
2014 | 552 | 14 | 37 | 603 |
2015 (e) | 357 | 4 | 35 | 396 |
Total | 909 | 18 | 72 | 999 |
Source:
Insolvency Statistics: October to December 2015
Notes:
(e) = estimated
The Insolvency Service analysed individual records filed at Companies House, in respect of a sample of 53 CVA proceedings which commenced in 2012/13. This analysis showed that, by summer 2015, around 60 per cent had been unsuccessful under the original terms of the arrangement (including those that were renegotiated). No information was collected on the reasons behind the CVA being unsuccessful.
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