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This page highlights a selection of the publications added to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Publications pages in the last few weeks, and is updated on a regular basis.
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URN: 12/513
Publication date: 6 Feb 2012
Sets out the Government's economic and non-economic evidence to the Low Pay Commission on national minimum wage policy issues. Covers the rates, the youth labour market, compliance, enforcement and awareness. See also the national minimum wage compliance report for 2010-2011 (URN 11/280).
URN: 12/P131
Highlights the Department’s research priorities over the 2011-12 period. Aims to consolidate and align all existing and on-going research with the Department’s key policy objectives. This provides an overall picture of our economic and social research in order to identify potential gaps in the evidence base. Demonstrates that the Department is focussed on longer term goals whilst responding to more immediate challenges posed by the current economic situation.
URN: 12/P104A
Publication date: 3 Feb 2012
Report on progress towards the Department's commitments in its business plan, including structural reform. See the draft structural reform plan (10/1086).
URN: 12/498
Outlines the performance and achievements of the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate for the year ending March 2011. Data from the tables in this publication is available in a machine processable format on the Transparency/Report Data webpage.
URN: 12/573
Publication date: 2 Feb 2012
Responses by 15 March 2012. Seeks views on the Government's proposal to close the Aircraft & Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal under the Public Bodies Act 2011. Relates to the Government’s decision to reform the UK public bodies landscape to enable the Government to deliver public services more efficiently.
URN: 12/574
Responses by 26 April 2012. Seeks views on the Government's proposal to close the British Shipbuilders Corporation and transfer legal responsibility to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. Aims to simplify the funding and handling of British Shipbuilders Corporation’s residual liabilities. Relates to the Government’s decision to reform the UK public bodies landscape to enable the Government to deliver public services more efficiently.
URN: 12/509
Formal UK Government response to the European Commission's green paper on the future of the dual-use export control system.
URN: 12/577
Publication date: 1 Feb 2012
Summarises the equality impacts of proposals to prioritise the efforts of the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) where apprenticeships deliver the greatest benefits, and for an incentive payment for small employers to take on a young apprentice for the first time. These proposals were announced in the education and skills growth review by Vince Cable in November 2011.
URN: 12/552
Table to help employees calculate how much statutory redundancy pay they could be entitled to, based on their age and length of service.
URN: 12/539
Publication date: 31 Jan 2012
BIS economics paper no.16. Examines small and medium-sized businesses' demand for and supply of external finance, assessing the issues that they face when seeking external finance. Provides an overview of the evidence on the availability of different types of finance and a summary of the effectiveness of Government schemes for increasing finance to SMEs. Presents the economic analysis that underpins Government policy in this area.
URN: 12/P87A
Publication date: 30 Jan 2012
News and information for the further education (FE) and skills sector. Provides an overview of topical policy issues for FE and skills providers and partners including all colleges and providers, adult education services and partner organisations.
URN: 12/P128
Publication date: 27 Jan 2012
Overview of responses to the Autumn 2011 Departmental staff survey. Underlying data for this publication is also available in a machine processable format on the Transparency/Ministers and Staff webpage.
URN: 12/560
Publication date: 26 Jan 2012
Respond by 29 February 2012. Seeks comments on the Government's work to improve the company law framework and areas where more work may be done that are under consideration. The 'Red Tape Challenge' theme concentrates on the regulations associated with company and commercial law, but this paper acknowledges that alternative approaches and improved guidance may also improve the framework.
URN: 12/558
Advice for tour operators that applies to package travel and holidays which fall within the Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992. Summarises the Government’s views on how to apply these Regulations when unusual and unforeseeable circumstances, such as the volcanic eruption in Iceland, occur and disrupt the package.
URN: 12/521
Publication date: 25 Jan 2012
Summarises key findings from a Government Office for Science review for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on its use of science and analysis. Looks at the Department’s analytical activities, covering economics, statistics, operational research and social research, and its scientific activities: the work of DWP medical practitioners and psychologists. Highlights the strong focus on the use of analytical evidence to inform policy-making, describes many areas of good practice and identifies areas to extend or enhance existing practices.
