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date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Technology: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what future investment the Government plans to make to promote the technology sector in London.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	212963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>London is the tech capital of Europe. The Government has played a key part in its success. It supports Tech City UK which delivers support services and programmes to tech businesses in London and UK-wide. London and Partners promotes the London wide tech sector, working on behalf of the Mayor of London and other commercial partners, including Tech City for which it took over specific responsibility in April this year.</p><p> </p><p>Technology companies in London will benefit from a range of government funding such as the:</p><p> </p><p>• recently announced 5m funding (£2m in 2015/2016 and a provisional allocation of £3m in 2016/17) for a pilot digital skills programme to be run by the London Enterprise Panel as part of the London Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>• A new Digital Catapult, located in King’s Cross, with £50m over 5 years to provide tech companies with access to expertise and enable them to develop new products and services.</p><p> </p><p>• £40K, this financial year, for Tech City UK’s Future Fifty Programme. Of the 50 tech companies, 37 of them are headquartered in London.</p><p> </p><p>• £400K this financial year for Tech City UK’s Digital Business Academy - an online training programme to ensure everyone has the much needed digital skills.</p><p> </p><p>We will have the lowest corporation tax rate in the G7 from next year. Technology companies can also benefit from other tax incentives such as the Patent Box, which can give an effective 10% tax rate for qualifying net revenue arising from EU or UK registered patents, R&amp;D tax credits, the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Government launched the new computing curriculum in September 2014, to ensure a pipeline of digitally skilled individuals. £3.5m of funding has been provided to ensure teachers have the skills to teach the curriculum and there are a number of coding clubs available in London schools, to inspire young people about the career opportunities digital skills provide.</p><p> </p><p>There is also good work at a local level, for example, Camden Council has started to set up code clubs in schools, see the following link: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/sep/02/camden-council-pioneers-coding-in-schools" target="_blank">http://www.theguardian.com/local-government-network/2013/sep/02/camden-council-pioneers-coding-in-schools</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 17/11/2014 17:06:59 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

105838

registered interest
date	03/11/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Devolution: Greater London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to devolve new fiscal powers to the Greater London Authority.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	212962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2014 answer text <p><strong>The Government has already devolved significant powers and responsibilities to London. The Government passed responsibility for housing, economic development and the Olympic legacy to London through the Localism Act 2011, in addition to transport, planning and the police already controlled by the Mayor. The Government keeps all decisions on tax policy under review.</strong></p> answering member constituency Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey answering member printed Danny Alexander question first answered 13/11/2014 10:45:37 answering member 1535 label Biography information for Danny Alexander
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

105861

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date	03/11/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Council Housing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential effect of a removal of the borrowing cap on local authorities' housing revenue accounts on the output of new council houses.
tabling member constituency	Tottenham
tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
uin	212964
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government's self-financing settlement has given council landlords access to £2.8 billion additional borrowing and the freedom to plan their housing businesses for the long term. We have no plans to remove the limits on indebtedness whilst we are taking action to tackle the budget deficit inherited from the last Administration but we have been able to make available an additional £300 million borrowing over 2015/16 and 2016/17 and those councils that needed additional borrowing have now had two opportunties to bid for additional borrowing. I announced on 9 October that £178 million additional borrowing was still up for grabs in the second bidding round. We are now considering those bids. We have been able to extend this borrowing precisely because of the Government's long-term economic plan. More council housing has been built in the four years of this Government than in all the thirteen years of the last Administration combined.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 10/11/2014 16:32:02 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy