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225753

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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: Bereavement Counselling
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that adequate bereavement support is available in universities.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL5523
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2015 answer text <p>Universities are independent bodies and Government does not intervene in their day to day management. Whilst higher education is an adult environment it is a long-established principle that universities have a duty of care to their students. As such they will determine what welfare and counselling services they need to offer their students.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 19/03/2015 16:13:47 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

225859

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Land Registry
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions rights have been registered on the Land Register through adverse possession in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Miss Anne McIntosh
uin	226640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Land Registry does not hold the information on the number of occasions where applications for adverse possession have been registered in the last 3 years. ‘Adverse Possessions’ fall within the general category ‘First Registrations’ which, as the name suggests, are applications for title to unregistered land.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 12/03/2015 16:40:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	384 label Biography information for Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

225860

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Adult Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations his Department has received from further education colleges on the adult skills allocation from the Skills Funding Agency for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226697
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to change the Skills Funding Agency’s budget allocation for 2015-16. It represents a fair funding settlement for skills in this country, as a partnership between Government, businesses and individuals. We continue to give top priority to apprenticeship as the gold standard for vocational education, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual funding for apprenticeships has now doubled over the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers frequently meet further education colleges to discuss matters of policy and implementation. Indicative funding for the 2015-16 financial year was set out in our skills funding statement for 2014-15 published in February 2014, and the Government has consistently emphasised the priority it is gives to apprenticeships in allocating funding. The 2015-16 allocations are consistent with a strategy that we have pursued since 2010, and colleges have had opportunity to respond to this by growing their apprenticeship provision, and opening up new income streams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The overriding principle is that funding should follow the learner, and be allocated to the most valuable programmes. But the approach to funding also takes into account the impact on individual providers from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not plan skills funding and provision at local or regional level. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges the ability to offer apprenticeships and other provision to respond best to those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency will where appropriate seek the views of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the region recent investments have included:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>· £18 million for a new training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. This will form part of the National College in Advanced Manufacturing opening in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.3m of Local Growth Fund to take forward the development of a new Apprenticeship Centre at Warwickshire College as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.2m in skills capital projects which will include FE establishments from 2016/17 to meet the skills needs of local employers.</p><p> </p><p>· £783,000 of Regional Growth Fund to support the implementation of the Skills for Growth programme as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP City Deal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond apprenticeships, our funding priorities include traineeships to enable young people who are not yet work ready to develop the skills and experience they need to get into employment. We also prioritise English and maths for those who have yet to achieve GCSE Grade A* to C standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 226698 226699 226700 226701 question first answered 12/03/2015 16:52:18 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

225861

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Adult Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will reconsider the budget allocation for the Skills Funding Agency for adult skills for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to change the Skills Funding Agency’s budget allocation for 2015-16. It represents a fair funding settlement for skills in this country, as a partnership between Government, businesses and individuals. We continue to give top priority to apprenticeship as the gold standard for vocational education, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual funding for apprenticeships has now doubled over the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers frequently meet further education colleges to discuss matters of policy and implementation. Indicative funding for the 2015-16 financial year was set out in our skills funding statement for 2014-15 published in February 2014, and the Government has consistently emphasised the priority it is gives to apprenticeships in allocating funding. The 2015-16 allocations are consistent with a strategy that we have pursued since 2010, and colleges have had opportunity to respond to this by growing their apprenticeship provision, and opening up new income streams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The overriding principle is that funding should follow the learner, and be allocated to the most valuable programmes. But the approach to funding also takes into account the impact on individual providers from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not plan skills funding and provision at local or regional level. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges the ability to offer apprenticeships and other provision to respond best to those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency will where appropriate seek the views of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the region recent investments have included:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>· £18 million for a new training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. This will form part of the National College in Advanced Manufacturing opening in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.3m of Local Growth Fund to take forward the development of a new Apprenticeship Centre at Warwickshire College as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.2m in skills capital projects which will include FE establishments from 2016/17 to meet the skills needs of local employers.</p><p> </p><p>· £783,000 of Regional Growth Fund to support the implementation of the Skills for Growth programme as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP City Deal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond apprenticeships, our funding priorities include traineeships to enable young people who are not yet work ready to develop the skills and experience they need to get into employment. We also prioritise English and maths for those who have yet to achieve GCSE Grade A* to C standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 226697 226699 226700 226701 question first answered 12/03/2015 16:52:18 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

225862

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Adult Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department has conducted a review of the effect on recipients of the budget reduction for the adult skills allocation of the Skills Funding Agency for the financial year 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to change the Skills Funding Agency’s budget allocation for 2015-16. It represents a fair funding settlement for skills in this country, as a partnership between Government, businesses and individuals. We continue to give top priority to apprenticeship as the gold standard for vocational education, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual funding for apprenticeships has now doubled over the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers frequently meet further education colleges to discuss matters of policy and implementation. Indicative funding for the 2015-16 financial year was set out in our skills funding statement for 2014-15 published in February 2014, and the Government has consistently emphasised the priority it is gives to apprenticeships in allocating funding. The 2015-16 allocations are consistent with a strategy that we have pursued since 2010, and colleges have had opportunity to respond to this by growing their apprenticeship provision, and opening up new income streams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The overriding principle is that funding should follow the learner, and be allocated to the most valuable programmes. But the approach to funding also takes into account the impact on individual providers from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not plan skills funding and provision at local or regional level. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges the ability to offer apprenticeships and other provision to respond best to those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency will where appropriate seek the views of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the region recent investments have included:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>· £18 million for a new training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. This will form part of the National College in Advanced Manufacturing opening in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.3m of Local Growth Fund to take forward the development of a new Apprenticeship Centre at Warwickshire College as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.2m in skills capital projects which will include FE establishments from 2016/17 to meet the skills needs of local employers.</p><p> </p><p>· £783,000 of Regional Growth Fund to support the implementation of the Skills for Growth programme as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP City Deal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond apprenticeships, our funding priorities include traineeships to enable young people who are not yet work ready to develop the skills and experience they need to get into employment. We also prioritise English and maths for those who have yet to achieve GCSE Grade A* to C standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 226697 226698 226700 226701 question first answered 12/03/2015 16:52:18 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

225863

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Adult Education: West Midlands
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans his Department has to increase non-apprenticeship opportunities in adult skills in further education colleges in Coventry and the West Midlands in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to change the Skills Funding Agency’s budget allocation for 2015-16. It represents a fair funding settlement for skills in this country, as a partnership between Government, businesses and individuals. We continue to give top priority to apprenticeship as the gold standard for vocational education, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual funding for apprenticeships has now doubled over the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers frequently meet further education colleges to discuss matters of policy and implementation. Indicative funding for the 2015-16 financial year was set out in our skills funding statement for 2014-15 published in February 2014, and the Government has consistently emphasised the priority it is gives to apprenticeships in allocating funding. The 2015-16 allocations are consistent with a strategy that we have pursued since 2010, and colleges have had opportunity to respond to this by growing their apprenticeship provision, and opening up new income streams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The overriding principle is that funding should follow the learner, and be allocated to the most valuable programmes. But the approach to funding also takes into account the impact on individual providers from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not plan skills funding and provision at local or regional level. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges the ability to offer apprenticeships and other provision to respond best to those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency will where appropriate seek the views of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the region recent investments have included:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>· £18 million for a new training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. This will form part of the National College in Advanced Manufacturing opening in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.3m of Local Growth Fund to take forward the development of a new Apprenticeship Centre at Warwickshire College as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.2m in skills capital projects which will include FE establishments from 2016/17 to meet the skills needs of local employers.</p><p> </p><p>· £783,000 of Regional Growth Fund to support the implementation of the Skills for Growth programme as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP City Deal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond apprenticeships, our funding priorities include traineeships to enable young people who are not yet work ready to develop the skills and experience they need to get into employment. We also prioritise English and maths for those who have yet to achieve GCSE Grade A* to C standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 226697 226698 226699 226700 question first answered 12/03/2015 16:52:18 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

225864

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Adult Education: West Midlands
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 his Department is taking to address the adult skills gap in Coventry and the West Midlands.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	226700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p>We have no plans to change the Skills Funding Agency’s budget allocation for 2015-16. It represents a fair funding settlement for skills in this country, as a partnership between Government, businesses and individuals. We continue to give top priority to apprenticeship as the gold standard for vocational education, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ annual funding for apprenticeships has now doubled over the lifetime of this Parliament.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ministers frequently meet further education colleges to discuss matters of policy and implementation. Indicative funding for the 2015-16 financial year was set out in our skills funding statement for 2014-15 published in February 2014, and the Government has consistently emphasised the priority it is gives to apprenticeships in allocating funding. The 2015-16 allocations are consistent with a strategy that we have pursued since 2010, and colleges have had opportunity to respond to this by growing their apprenticeship provision, and opening up new income streams.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The overriding principle is that funding should follow the learner, and be allocated to the most valuable programmes. But the approach to funding also takes into account the impact on individual providers from year to year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not plan skills funding and provision at local or regional level. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges the ability to offer apprenticeships and other provision to respond best to those priorities and meet the needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency will where appropriate seek the views of Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) on funding allocations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the region recent investments have included:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>· £18 million for a new training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry. This will form part of the National College in Advanced Manufacturing opening in September 2015.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.3m of Local Growth Fund to take forward the development of a new Apprenticeship Centre at Warwickshire College as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Deal.</p><p> </p><p>· £1.2m in skills capital projects which will include FE establishments from 2016/17 to meet the skills needs of local employers.</p><p> </p><p>· £783,000 of Regional Growth Fund to support the implementation of the Skills for Growth programme as part of the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP City Deal.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Beyond apprenticeships, our funding priorities include traineeships to enable young people who are not yet work ready to develop the skills and experience they need to get into employment. We also prioritise English and maths for those who have yet to achieve GCSE Grade A* to C standard.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 226697 226698 226699 226701 question first answered 12/03/2015 16:52:18 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

225946

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Intellectual Property: Education
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 his Department has made on the creation of a new Intellectual Property Education Co-ordinator role.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	226732
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>There is not a single Intellectual Property Education Coordinator role. The Intellectual Property Office acts as a co-ordinator for Intellectual Property (IP) Education work and has a team dedicated to IP education and awareness raising. This team is working closely with industry and across government to raise understanding of and respect for all forms of intellectual property.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/03/2015 13:11:51 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

225947

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit
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 his Department has made on (a) providing further resources for and (b) expanding the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
uin	226734
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>In November 2014 the Government announced a further £3m of funding for the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU), securing its future until 2017. This investment will ensure the City of London Police continue to focus on the important area of online crime.</p><p> </p><p>PIPCU’s steering board regularly review its progress against key performance measures. Their role is to review its operational effectiveness and to consider areas of expansion if required.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/03/2015 10:55:23 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley

225948

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	Policy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what policies contained in the 2010 Coalition Agreement and falling under his Department's responsibilities have not yet been implemented; and what the reasons are for each such policy's non-implementation.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	226768
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to Departmental Business Plans which record all commitments, timescales for completion and progress against them. The Business Plans are fully transparent and are available at: <a href="http://transparency.number10.gov.uk" target="_blank">http://transparency.number10.gov.uk</a></p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 16/03/2015 14:57:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn