Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 3 February 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr T Cook.
Answered by David Laws
I replied to the Rt Hon Member for Manchester, Gorton on 19 February. I have arranged for a copy to be resent to the Rt Hon Member’s office.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 2 February 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr M Woronycz.
Answered by David Lidington
My right hon. Friend the member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Philip Hammond) replied to the the Right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton's letter of 2 February 2015 with regard to Mr M Woronycz, on 13 March 2015.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter to him of 22 January 2015, from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regards to Mr S Law.
Answered by Steve Webb
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions replied to the Rt. Hon. Member on 2 February 2015.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the aggregate cost is to the public purse of designing, printing and nationwide display of the Business is Great posters; and what the objectives are of that campaign.
Answered by Matt Hancock
Business is GREAT Britain is the single brand to be used across Government to promote the wide range of Government products and services for the UK’s 5 million small businesses.
This is an important and very successful part of our long term economic plan. Ultimately, its aim is to make Britain more prosperous by supporting jobs, enterprise and growth.
Posters are used as part of the Business is GREAT Britain campaign, which is managed the Department. Its aim is to increase awareness, and effect significant take up of, Government’s offerings to help small businesses grow. Posters have also been used to increase awareness of the digital opportunities of the internet to help sole traders/micro businesses to market their business online, and to promote broadband vouchers with a potential value of up to £3,000 per business to help businesses access superfast broadband available in 22 cities around the country.
Posters are displayed in print/digital formats in a range of UK cities and digitally across targeted websites. Our media planning /research show poster formats continue to be very effective ways to communicate with small business audiences.
Media and production costs for posters across financial years 2013/14 and 2014/15.
Campaign | Media costs | Production costs |
Business is GREAT Britain 2013/14 | £760,000 | £68,000 |
Business is GREAT Britain 2014/15 | £1,200,000 | £70,000 |
Do More Online – 2014/15 increasing digital capability | £755,000 | £50,000 |
Broadband Vouchers 2014/15 | £714,000 | £45,000 |
The GREAT campaign has been increasingly successful. It has increased awareness of Government products and services that support small businesses by 45% since it launched in November 2013.
There have been over 2 million sessions on greatbusiness.gov.uk, the website the campaign promotes, reaching over 1.6m users since the site was refreshed in July 2014.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 21 January 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Ms B H Ardwold.
Answered by Helen Grant
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has no record of receiving this letter and a duplicate has been requested.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 19 January 2015 from the Right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr P. Metcalfe.
Answered by David Lidington
My right hon. Friend the member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Philip Hammond) replied to the the Right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton's letter of 19 January 2015 with regard to Mr P. Metcalfe on 25 February.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 7 January 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regards to Mrs J Heron.
Answered by Helen Grant
A reply to his letter dated 7 January 2015 was issued to the Right Hon. Member for Manchester Gorton on 16 February 2015.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he intends to reply to the letter to him dated 2 January 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regards to Mr Marwan Saleh.
Answered by Steve Webb
Despite an extensive search, I am afraid the Department has no trace of the letter.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 15 December 2014 from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr A. Webster.
Answered by Dan Rogerson
Reply was sent to the Rt. Hon. Member on 23 December 2014, Defra reference MC366057.
Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he plans to reply to the letters to him dated 1 December 2014 and 2 January 2015 from the right hon. member for Manchester, Gorton with regard to Mr B Wise.
Answered by Steve Webb
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Mr Iain Duncan Smith, replied to the Rt. Hon. Member on 29 January 2015.