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224115

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Galileo System
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 6 January 2015 to Question 219924, what the nature of the launch anomaly was; and what the result of the full inquiry was.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Austin Mitchell
uin	225697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>The root cause of the launch anomaly that affected the 5th Galileo launch on 22 August 2014 was a design fault leading to a shortcoming in the system thermal analysis.</p><p> </p><p>As a result of the inquiry the system thermal analyses were re-examined and the design fault corrected. The Inquiry Board recommended measures that would allow a return to flight for the Soyuz launch vehicle. The Commission now aims to resume Galileo launches shortly.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/03/2015 14:11:44 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	372 label Biography information for Austin Mitchell

224118

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Galileo System
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 22 January 2014, Official Report, column 213W, on the Galileo system, what the cost was to January 2014; and what proportion of that cost has been paid by the UK.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Austin Mitchell
uin	225742
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2015 answer text <p>The Galileo Programme’s development stage took place between 2000 and 2007, and was funded through contributions by Member States of the European Space Agency (ESA). The UK contributed €240.3 million (£163.43m at March 2007 prices) to the approximately €1.5 billion (£1.02bn at March 2007 prices) budget, approximately 16%.</p><p> </p><p>In 2007, Member States and the European Commission agreed a multi-annual budget to last until the end of 2013 of €3.4 billion (£2.3bn at March 2007 prices) of EU funds to complete the programme. EU Member States, including the UK, contribute to the EU Budget as a whole and not to individual spending programmes within it. As a reference point, the UK’s post-abatement financing share of the EU Budget was estimated to be around 12.5% in 2013.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/03/2015 14:12:46 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	372 label Biography information for Austin Mitchell

224178

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Growth Hubs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what growth hubs are in operation; where each hub is located; when each hub began operation; and how many businesses have been provided assistance by each hub.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2015 answer text <p>Growth Hubs bring together services for small business in each Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area. There are currently 23 Growth Hubs, and a list of locations is provided in the table below. Growth Hubs have begun operation at different times reflecting local circumstances, and launch dates are shown. As a condition of receiving funding from Government in 2015-16 alongside their Local Growth Deals, LEPs will report on the number of businesses their growth hub has helped. This information will be available from October 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Growth Hub</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Launch Date</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Growth Hub</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Launch Date</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Black Country</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>Lancashire</p></td><td><p>Prior to January 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Buckinghamshire Thames Valley</p></td><td><p>Prior to January 2014</p></td><td><p>New Anglia</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Cumbria</p></td><td><p>Prior to January 2014</p></td><td><p>Northamptonshire</p></td><td><p>Prior to January 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coventry &amp; Warwickshire</p></td><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>Oxfordshire</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Coast 2 Capital</p></td><td><p>August 2014</p></td><td><p>Southend</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>D2N2</p></td><td><p>December 2015</p></td><td><p>South East Midlands</p></td><td><p>March 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dorset</p></td><td><p>May 2014</p></td><td><p>Stoke-on-Trent &amp; Staffordshire</p></td><td><p>October 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>Prior to January 2014</p></td><td><p>Solent</p></td><td><p>July 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Heart of the South West</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>Swindon &amp; Wiltshire</p></td><td><p>May 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Humber</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td><td><p>Tees Valley</p></td><td><p>July 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Gloucestershire</p></td><td><p>October 2014</p></td><td><p>Thames Valley Berkshire</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>Worcestershire</p></td><td><p>June 2014</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 06/03/2015 14:31:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224179

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Small Businesses: Government Assistance
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 businesses have been assisted by the Business Growth Service since its inception.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The Business Growth Service has already directly assisted 2,620 businesses since it was launched on 5 December 2014, and is connecting firms to export support from UK Trade and Investment and to other support such as Innovate UK.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/03/2015 16:34:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224180

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Trade Promotion
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 companies have received support under the High Value Opportunities scheme in each month of the 2014-15 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>We only finalise and audit the statistics at the end of the financial year.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/03/2015 16:20:42 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224181

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Trade Promotion
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 companies have received support under the Overseas Business Networks Initiative in each month of the 2014-15 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>The number of companies to have received support under the Overseas Business Networks Initiative in each month of the 2014-15 financial year is shown in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month – 2014/15 Financial Year</p></td><td><p>No. of companies to have received support</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>1031</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>1004</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>1461</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>1253</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>August</p></td><td><p>536</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>1203</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>October</p></td><td><p>1142</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>November</p></td><td><p>1513</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>730</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Overseas Business Networks Initiative (OBNI) is a change programme led by UK Trade and Investment catalysing an increased role for the private sector in delivering high quality, practical trade support to UK companies on behalf of the Government in more than 35 high potential overseas markets. OBNI works with a wide range of partners, including Chambers of Commerce and British Business Groups overseas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/03/2015 10:42:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

224182

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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	Exports: Government Assistance
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 firms have received through UKEF (a) insurance support, (b) bank guarantee trade finance products, (c) bank guarantee loan products and (d) other support in each month of the 2014-15 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225782
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Due to there often being a time delay (particularly in relation to products aimed at smaller exporters) for support to be recorded on UKEF’s systems after it has become effective, a definitive month-by-month breakdown of the type requested is not available. Based on the information available, in the financial year to end-January UKEF has supported 145 different exporters, up from 130 supported during 2013/14.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/03/2015 15:44:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

223842

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Higher Education: Bradford
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 students from Bradford were the first to go to university from their family in each year since 2005.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Mr David Ward
uin	225608
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).</p><p>The Table shows the proportion of students from Bradford Local Authority area and the UK overall who started a full-time first degree course at a UK Higher Education Institution in the academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 and who declared that their parents did not hold a higher education qualification. Comparable information is not available for the earlier years.</p><p>Information for the 2014/15 academic year will become available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Full-time first degree entrants domiciled in Bradford Local Authority and the UK whose parents do not hold a higher education qualification</strong></p><p>UK Higher Education Institutions</p><p>Academic Years 2008/09 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Bradford</strong></p></td><td colspan="3"><p><strong>UK Overall</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic Year</p></td><td><p>Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification</p></td><td><p>Count of respondents</p></td><td><p>Count of students where information is unknown</p></td><td><p>Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification</p></td><td><p>Count of respondents</p></td><td><p>Count of students where information is unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>2,040</p></td><td><p>550</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>270,345</p></td><td><p>91,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>60%</p></td><td><p>2,280</p></td><td><p>560</p></td><td><p>47%</p></td><td><p>281,410</p></td><td><p>95,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>2,225</p></td><td><p>505</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>280,600</p></td><td><p>90,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>2,445</p></td><td><p>510</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td><td><p>303,690</p></td><td><p>90,895</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>59%</p></td><td><p>2,270</p></td><td><p>535</p></td><td><p>46%</p></td><td><p>275,430</p></td><td><p>81,585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>62%</p></td><td><p>2,745</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>48%</p></td><td><p>323,850</p></td><td><p>63,110</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.</p><p> </p><p>(1) Domicile refers to a student’s permanent or home address prior to entering their course.</p><p>(2) More information on how Parental HE is measured is available here: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&amp;task=show_file&amp;mnl=14051&amp;href=a%5e_%5ePARED.html" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&amp;task=show_file&amp;mnl=14051&amp;href=a^_^PARED.html</a></p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 20/03/2015 10:40:29 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	3923 label Biography information for Mr David Ward

223846

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
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 bids by local enterprise partnerships to (a) the Regional Growth Fund and (b) the Exceptional and Regional Growth Fund have been (i) received, (ii) selected and (iii) not selected in each bidding round in each region since those funds were established.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225677
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 24/03/2015 11:33:05 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 47531 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

223847

registered interest
date	26/02/2015
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	Local Enterprise Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of regional growth fund monies allocated to local enterprise partnerships have been drawn down in each bidding and in each region since those funds were established.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	225678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2015 answer text <p>90% of the funds allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships from the Regional Growth Fund will have been drawn by 31 March 2015. A further 10% is expected to be drawn down in the next financial year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>% drawn down</p></td><td><p>Round 1</p></td><td><p>Round 2</p></td><td><p>Round 3</p></td><td><p>Round 4</p></td><td><p>Exceptional</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Nationwide</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>86</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>88</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>85</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>64</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td> </td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>91</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td><p>96</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Local Enterprise Partnerships were only eligible to apply to the Regional Growth Fund in Rounds 1 to 4. Since then, Local Enterprise Partnerships have been able to apply for funding through the Local Growth Fund.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 25/03/2015 14:42:21 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 47530 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna