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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when his Department plans to announce the outcome of the tips, gratuities, cover and service charges: proposals for further action consultation which ended on 27 June 2016.

Asked by
Stella Creasy (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 December 2016
Reference
57781
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to respond to the evidence received by his Department's inquiry into tips, gratuities and service charges by the end of 2016; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 December 2016
Reference
57543
House
House of Commons

If that commitment was given in the past, I will ensure that the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is made aware of the hon. Lady’s wish for such an announcement as soon as possible.

Member
David Lidington (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
17 November 2016
Reference
617 c408
House
House of Commons

Four months have passed since the end of the Government’s consultation on tips, gratuities and service charges, but abuses are still happening, with workers being told that they will receive a share of the service charge only if their pay is cut by a third. The former Leader of the...

Member
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Type
Business questions
Date
17 November 2016
Reference
617 c408
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to publish his response to the results of his Department's consultation on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges that closed in June 2016.

Asked by
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 October 2016
Reference
46587
House
House of Commons

I thank my right hon. Friend for that question. May I begin by thanking and paying a huge tribute to everybody who works in this place, especially those in our catering services? They often have to work

the most unsocial hours and often do so in the most difficult of conditions, as they suddenly have a huge influx of us going into the Tea Room or wherever it might be. We perhaps underestimate the work they do. My right hon. Friend makes a very good point and I would be more than happy to take this up with the House authorities. In the meantime, I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on rightly launching this consultation, as when someone, in any facility, pays a tip, they expect the person to whom they want that tip to go to receive it—all of it. I think this will allow us to begin to see real progress, so that we do the right thing on this.

Answered by
Anna Soubry (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Type
Oral answers to questions
Date
3 May 2016
Reference
609 c18
House
House of Commons

Does the Secretary of State accept that the proposals to allow waiters and waitresses, rather than restaurant owners, to actually receive tips given to them will be warmly welcomed? Does he not think that the House of Commons should show a lead, because in our own restaurants the agency workers and part-time workers who serve Members and their guests do not receive tips?

Asked by
Simon Burns (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Topical questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 2016
Reference
609 cc18-9
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which bodies he met for his Department's investigation into tips, gratuities, covers and service charges; and on how many occasions and when such meetings with such bodies took place.

Asked by
Louise Haigh (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 April 2016
Reference
35135
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2016 to Question 30709, when he expects his Department's response to the call for evidence on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges to be published.

Asked by
Will Quince (Conservative)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 April 2016
Reference
34008
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2016 to Question 25985, whether he plans to publish his response to his Department's consultation on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges before the period of purdah for the EU membership referendum...

Asked by
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 March 2016
Reference
30709
House
House of Commons

To ask the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington representing the House of Commons Commission, what the Commission's policy is on the allocation of service charges paid by card to (a) permanent and (b) contracted canteen and hospitality staff working on the parliamentary estate.

Asked by
Tulip Siddiq (Labour)
Answering body
House of Commons Commission
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 February 2016
Reference
27612
House
House of Commons

I have always taken the view that if someone is given a tip, either they should keep it or it should be pooled with their fellow members of staff. I know that the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills takes this issue seriously and I will make sure...

Member
Lord Grayling (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
11 February 2016
Reference
605 c1757
House
House of Commons

May we have Government time for a debate on the consultation by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on tips and gratuities? The consultation closed at the start of last November, but the Minister for Skills confirmed in a written answer this morning that no Government response is imminent....

Member
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Type
Business questions
Date
11 February 2016
Reference
605 c1757
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to publish his response to the results of his Department's consultation on tips, gratuities, service and cover charges; and whether he plans that that response will include proposals for reform of those payments.

Asked by
Paula Sherriff (Labour)
Answering body
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
10 February 2016
Reference
25985
House
House of Commons