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date	13/10/2015
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	Students: Grants
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect on students living or studying in areas where household income is below the national average of the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 8 July 2015 that maintenance grants will be discontinued from 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	11570
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>From 2016/17 all new eligible students living or studying in areas where household income is below the national average and who would otherwise have received a grant will <ins class="ministerial">qualify for an increased loan for living costs. The total living costs support available under the new student support arrangements for eligible students on the lowest incomes is increasing by 10.3% in 2016/17.</ins><del class="ministerial"> be eligible for a maintenance loan, that increases the total maintenance support available to them by 10.3%.</del></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 19/10/2015 13:06:45 question first ministerially corrected 20/04/2016 10:36:58 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone previous answer version 23986 answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

420935

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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	Research: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in HM Treasury's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what projects were funded by the Research Establishments Major Capital funding; what the (a) projected and (b) actual cost was of each of those projects; and whether each of those projects has been completed.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11507
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The data in the HM Treasury publication Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly, Statement of Funding Policywas compiled in 2010 using a different financial database system to the one subsequently used by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and its delivery partners. The term ‘Research Establishments Major Capital funding’ is not currently used by BIS. Information on overall science capital expenditure is available in the Science Capital Roadmap, in the BIS annual accounts, and relevant information is also obtainable in Research Council Annual Reports (see below).</p><p><strong>Information on overall science capital expenditure is available in the BIS annual accounts and useful information is also obtainable in Research Council Annual Reports (see below). </strong></p><ol><li>BIS Annual Reports and Accounts <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/bis-annual-reports-and-accounts</a> The most recent report is here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444896/BIS-15-421-BIS-Annual-Report-15-web.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444896/BIS-15-421-BIS-Annual-Report-15-web.pdf</a></li></ol><p>See Annex B, page 200 for tables that features resource and capital spend on science and research.</p><ol start="2"><li>Research Council Annual Reports <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/about/aboutrcs/governance/" target="_blank">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/about/aboutrcs/governance/</a></li></ol><p>Annual Reports for each of the Research Councils with information on expenditure.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 26/10/2015 12:10:22 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown

420937

registered interest
date	13/10/2015
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	United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the schedule of comparable programme objects in HM Treasury's publication, Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy, published in October 2010, what the total expenditure was on UKAEA-Decommissioning between 2010 and 2015; and what the forecast expenditure in which locations is on such decommissioning in each of the next five years.
tabling member constituency	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
tabling member printed	Alan Brown
uin	11509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2015 answer text <p>The data in the HM Treasury publication <em>Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales an Northern Ireland Assembly, Statement of Funding Policy</em>was compiled in 2010 using a different financial database system to the one subsequently in use by BIS and its delivery partners. This means that the information requested could only be provided at disproportionate cost. However the UK Atomic Energy Authority, which is responsible for the UK fusion programme, has provided the following information.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Legacy costs<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>JET decommissioning costs<sup>1, 5</sup></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>8,279</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>10,798</p></td><td><p>37</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>7,356</p></td><td><p>43</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>6,814 plus 1,050 capital<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>62</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>6,024 plus 1,554 capital<sup>2</sup></p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>8,315 (est.) plus 6,010 capital<sup>2</sup> (est.)</p></td><td><p>166 (est.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p><em>See note 3</em></p></td><td><p>214 (est.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p><em>See note 3</em></p></td><td><p>943 (est.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p><em>See note 3</em></p></td><td><p>16,306<sup>4</sup> (est.)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p><em>See note 3</em></p></td><td><p>28,251 (est.)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Notes</p><p>1. Figures in £000s.</p><p>2. Capital costs cover new facilities on the Culham site such as the Materials Research Facility and RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments) funded partly through the National Nuclear Users Facility and Oxford City Deal.</p><p>3. Subject to next Spending Review.</p><p>4. The costs rise substantially in 2018/19 due to the expected closure of JET in 2018 and start of decommissioning. However this date is under review with the European Commission with an extension proposed.</p><p>5. These costs are undiscounted and form part of the total undiscounted liability for decommissioning JET of £256,544k as stated in the 2014/15 UKAEA Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 27/10/2015 10:56:46 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4470 label Biography information for Alan Brown