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<p> </p><p>There are a number of grant and loan schemes administered by this Department
through delivery partners. Many of these loans and grants are made to a company or
organisation and not to named individuals. As such, we do not collect data on gender
for these loans and grants. The tables below provide details of specific schemes aimed
at individual applicants.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Start Up Loans</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Scheme</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of female applications</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion who were female</strong></p><p><strong>application</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of female recipients</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion who were female</strong></p><p><strong>recipients</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Start
Up Loans (launched September 2012)</p></td><td><p>11,526</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>6914</p></td><td><p>37%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Start Up Loans (launched September 2012) are delivered by Start
Up Loan Company (SuLCo). There is no specific requirement to monitor gender, but monitoring
of gender is one of the data streams SuLCo captures to aid in its reporting to government.</p><p>
</p><p><strong>Student Loans<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Type
of Support</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No of females awarded loans Academic Year
2008/09</strong></p><p><strong>000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion who
were female</strong></p><p><strong>awarded loans Academic Year 2008/09</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No
of females awarded loans</strong></p><p><strong>Academic Year 2012/13</strong></p><p><strong>000s</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion
who were female</strong></p><p><strong>awarded loans Academic Year 2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maintenance
Grant Awarded</p></td><td><p>263.7</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>302.4</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HE
Grant Awarded</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>51%</p></td><td><p>0.0</p></td><td><p>42%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Adult
Dependant Grant Awarded</p></td><td><p>3.6</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td><td><p>3.8</p></td><td><p>43%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Childcare
Grant Awarded</p></td><td><p>9.4</p></td><td><p>91%</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td><td><p>90%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Parental
Learning Allowance Awarded</p></td><td><p>27.6</p></td><td><p>80%</p></td><td><p>31.8</p></td><td><p>81%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Travel
Grant Awarded</p></td><td><p>0.7</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td><td><p>56%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disabled
Students Allowance Paid</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td><td><p>57%</p></td><td><p>31.9</p></td><td><p>58%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Tuition
Fee Loan Paid</p></td><td><p>362.6</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td><td><p>469.9</p></td><td><p>53%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Maintenance
Loan Paid</p></td><td><p>419.5</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td><td><p>505.5</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Student Loans are delivered by Student Loans Company (SLC).
There is no requirement to monitor gender. Monitoring focuses on the eligibility criteria
which are set out in regulations. Gender is not part of the eligibility criteria.</p><p>
</p><p>The data only includes two academic years because providing all five academic
years would be of disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The data only includes those
who were “awarded” Student Loans rather than those who “applied” and “received”. This
is because students are awarded Student Loans based on eligibility criteria so only
those who applied and were eligible have been recorded.</p><p> </p><p><strong>24+
Advanced Learning Loan (24+ALL)*</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic
Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of learners <em>awarded </em>24+ALL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of female</strong></p><p><strong>learners <em>awarded</em> 24+ALL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion
of female learners <em>awarded </em>a 24+ALL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number
of <em>applications</em> for a 24+ALL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of female</strong></p><p><strong>applications
for a 24+ALL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of female applications for
a 24+ALL</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p><p><em>Aug
2013 to Apr 2014</em></p></td><td><p>52,400</p></td><td><p>39,500</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p><p><em>To
end June 2014</em></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>69,110</p></td><td><p>52,010</p></td><td><p>75%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4,760</p></td><td><p>3,680</p></td><td><p>77%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>* Introduced in the 2013/14 Academic Year</p><p> </p><p>In
addition, Vocational Education Teaching and Learning funding is outlined in the Skills
Funding Statement which sets out the Government’s priorities for the budget. It is
for providers to decide how they use funding to reflect those priorities. The Skills
Funding Statements 2012-15 and 2013-16 also show in the Data Annex what learning the
available funding has supported over the last three years, including a breakdown by
gender:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2013-to-2016"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2013-to-2016</a></p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2012-2015"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2012-2015</a></p><br
/><p>[1] Excludes Careleavers Grant, Dependants Grant and Lone Parents Grant.</p><p>
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