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77013

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 128W, on disabled students' allowances, for what reason the fact that many disabled students receive more than one type of support makes it not possible to make an accurate estimate of the number of students who would qualify for disabled students' allowance under the proposed changes to that allowance.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	205040
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There is a range of support available under the four Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs) (specialist equipment, non-medical help, travel, general). It is expected that students will in future receive a different balance of support between HEI reasonable adjustments and funding via DSAs. For example, some may receive all of their non-medical help support via their HEI rather than via DSAs, but still receive some DSA-funded support towards specialist equipment or travel costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on all of the different types of support provided to individual students under DSAs are not readily available under current record keeping arrangements. The Equality Analysis will contain an estimate of the number of students who would not be eligible for any support under DSAs following any changes. I will have due regard to this Analysis before regulations are laid before the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 205042 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:18:25 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

77014

registered interest
date	10/07/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 7 July 2014, Official Report, column 128W, on disabled students' allowances, for what reason his Department did not make an estimate of the number of students who will no longer be eligible for disabled students' allowance before deciding to implement the proposed changes.
tabling member constituency	Westmorland and Lonsdale
tabling member printed	Tim Farron
uin	205042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There is a range of support available under the four Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs) (specialist equipment, non-medical help, travel, general). It is expected that students will in future receive a different balance of support between HEI reasonable adjustments and funding via DSAs. For example, some may receive all of their non-medical help support via their HEI rather than via DSAs, but still receive some DSA-funded support towards specialist equipment or travel costs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Data on all of the different types of support provided to individual students under DSAs are not readily available under current record keeping arrangements. The Equality Analysis will contain an estimate of the number of students who would not be eligible for any support under DSAs following any changes. I will have due regard to this Analysis before regulations are laid before the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 205040 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:18:25 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1591 label Biography information for Tim Farron

76668

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
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	Brain: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent assessment he has made of the work of the Human Brain project; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	204685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The results of the initial phase of the Human Brain Project (HBP) will provide more detail on how it will address its objectives. The UK Research Councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) will hold discussions with UK researchers at that point to decide on any future involvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK makes no current financial contribution to the HBP. However, the project includes the expertise of some key UK researchers and is making use of the hardware platform, SpiNNaker, which was previously developed with £2.7 million of support from the EPSRC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204686 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:15:32 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

76669

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
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	Brain: Research
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the UK's financial contribution to the Human Brain project is in addition to the contribution of the EU Commission.
tabling member constituency	Blackley and Broughton
tabling member printed	Graham Stringer
uin	204686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The results of the initial phase of the Human Brain Project (HBP) will provide more detail on how it will address its objectives. The UK Research Councils, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) will hold discussions with UK researchers at that point to decide on any future involvement.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK makes no current financial contribution to the HBP. However, the project includes the expertise of some key UK researchers and is making use of the hardware platform, SpiNNaker, which was previously developed with £2.7 million of support from the EPSRC.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204685 question first answered 15/07/2014 12:15:32 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	449 label Biography information for Graham Stringer

76316

registered interest
date	08/07/2014
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	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many young people who had been in receipt of free school meals applied to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in 2010-11.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
uin	204496
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/07/2014 answer text <p>The information for Oxbridge is not held centrally.</p><p>Figures published by UCAS in July 2013 show that, in 2010, the application rate of 18 year olds in state schools in England who had received free school meals at age 15 was 13.2%, compared to 32.2% for those who had not received them. In 2013, the rates were 14.8% and 32.9% respectively. The application rate measures the percentage of 18 year olds who apply to enter full-time undergraduate courses in the UK. UCAS is an organisation independent from Government.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 15/07/2014 11:32:57 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

65960

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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	Higher Education: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to promote the Open Access academic publishing movement in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	204123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to making publicly funded and published research freely and openly available. In the long term we believe the most effective form of Open Access (OA) will be Gold OA. I last commented on this subject in November 2013 in the Government's response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee report on OA and this answer updates on progress since that statement.</p><p>I was very pleased that in May 2014 the Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing, a major publisher of academic papers, introduced an ‘offsetting' arrangement that will allow institutions to publish more open access papers without incurring additional costs. I strongly encourage other publishers to follow the IoP Publishing's lead.</p><p>Further, the ‘Access to Research' initiative was launched in February 2014 through the support of the publishing community. It allows students, independent researchers and small businesses to access many of the world's best academic papers through their local libraries.</p><p>We intend to maintain this level of progress and I am pleased that Universities UK (UUK) have agreed to take on a co-ordinating role for the continued implementation of OA policy in the UK. This follows a recommendation in the Finch Group's report ‘<em>Review of progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the Finch Report</em>‘, UUK are in the process of setting up a group which will consist of key stakeholders similar to that of the Finch Group.</p><p>Additionally the Research Sector Transparency Board (RSTB) which I chair advises Government on how to increase access to research data. My intention is that the RSTB will also continue to play a role in OA and preservation of scientific data.</p><p>In relation to confidentiality clauses this Department continues to monitor the situation and is encouraged by recent developments in this area.</p><p>Finally, I wish to record my appreciation for the achievements of Ron Egginton, our lead official on OA who sadly and suddenly died on 8 June 2014. His expertise and commitment was instrumental in the progress that has been achieved in making the UK the leading major nation on OA.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204124 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:08:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin

65961

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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	Higher Education: Libraries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress he has made in negotiations with private publishers on the confidentiality clauses negotiated by them when supplying university libraries.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	204124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to making publicly funded and published research freely and openly available. In the long term we believe the most effective form of Open Access (OA) will be Gold OA. I last commented on this subject in November 2013 in the Government's response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee report on OA and this answer updates on progress since that statement.</p><p>I was very pleased that in May 2014 the Institute of Physics (IoP) Publishing, a major publisher of academic papers, introduced an ‘offsetting' arrangement that will allow institutions to publish more open access papers without incurring additional costs. I strongly encourage other publishers to follow the IoP Publishing's lead.</p><p>Further, the ‘Access to Research' initiative was launched in February 2014 through the support of the publishing community. It allows students, independent researchers and small businesses to access many of the world's best academic papers through their local libraries.</p><p>We intend to maintain this level of progress and I am pleased that Universities UK (UUK) have agreed to take on a co-ordinating role for the continued implementation of OA policy in the UK. This follows a recommendation in the Finch Group's report ‘<em>Review of progress in Implementing the Recommendations of the Finch Report</em>‘, UUK are in the process of setting up a group which will consist of key stakeholders similar to that of the Finch Group.</p><p>Additionally the Research Sector Transparency Board (RSTB) which I chair advises Government on how to increase access to research data. My intention is that the RSTB will also continue to play a role in OA and preservation of scientific data.</p><p>In relation to confidentiality clauses this Department continues to monitor the situation and is encouraged by recent developments in this area.</p><p>Finally, I wish to record my appreciation for the achievements of Ron Egginton, our lead official on OA who sadly and suddenly died on 8 June 2014. His expertise and commitment was instrumental in the progress that has been achieved in making the UK the leading major nation on OA.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 204123 question first answered 14/07/2014 16:08:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin

65967

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
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	Healthcare UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether public sector organisations from the devolved administrations have been invited to participate in Healthcare UK's Business Forum for stakeholders on 24 July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Mr Ivan Lewis
uin	204220
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Yes, public sector organisations from the devolved administrations have been invited to participate in Healthcare UK's Business Forum for stakeholders on 24 July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 10/07/2014 14:40:33 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	441 label Biography information for Mr Ivan Lewis

65639

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Business: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support and protection the Government provides to UK businesses experiencing cyber attacks.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	203893
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The UK Cyber Security Strategy, published in November 2011, sets out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public's way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment. A £860 million National Cyber Security Programme is in place to 2016 to deliver the objectives of the strategy. These objectives include making the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business in cyberspace, and making the UK more resilient to cyber attack and better able to protect our interests in cyberspace.</p><p>Government is working closely with industry to address the threat and impact of cyber attacks. These measures include:</p><p>o Creating a National Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT UK which works closely with industry, Government and academia to enhance UK cyber resilience. It provides support to Critical National Infrastructure companies to handle cyber security incidents. The Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), part of CERT UK, enables companies to share information and intelligence on cyber security threats.</p><p>o The creation of a Government approved list of Cyber Incident ‘Clean Up' companies which can help companies respond effectively to incidents and get them up and running as soon as possible.</p><p>o Advice and guidance resources including the '10 Steps to Cyber Security' guidance, the CyberStreetwise behaviour change campaign <a href="http://www.cyberstreetwise.com/" target="_blank">www.cyberstreetwise.com</a> and the Government and industry funded GetSafeOnline <a href="http://www.getsafeonline.org/" target="_blank">www.getsafeonline.org</a>.</p><p>o The Government-backed and industry approved Cyber Essentials scheme, which enables businesses to certify themselves against core technical cyber requirements and implement a basic level of cyber hygiene against cyber threats.</p><p>o Practical support for small businesses with the Cyber Security Innovation Vouchers Scheme to enable individual businesses to receive £5,000 to increase their cyber security.</p><p>o Support for industry initiatives such as Nominet's ‘Cyber Assist' pilot service for small and medium-sized enterprises experiencing cyber attacks.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:50:57 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

65640

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Intellectual Property: Brighton
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he has taken to encourage the development of intellectual property in (a) Brighton, Kemptown and (b) Brighton and Hove; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	203870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2014 answer text <p>The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) provides support and information on how to make the most of all forms of intellectual property (IP) to businesses on a national basis. In 2013 the IPO launched <em>IP for Business, </em>a set of online training tools and advice to help businesses understand IP and how it can be used within a business to generate revenue. The IPO also funds 300 IP audits, targeted through partners at high growth businesses across the UK. Over the last year the IPO has spoken to 18000 people through seminars, workshops and events; since October 2013, 276 businesses have benefited from face-to-face information and support from the IPO at seven events in the Brighton area – including Brighton, Lewes, Crawley and Bognor Regis. In addition, the IPO has a national consumer's campaign focussing on awareness raising and encouraging respect of IP.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/07/2014 16:56:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby