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79478

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Students: Loans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have plans to initiate a review of the sustainability of the student loans system.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Deech
	uin	HL1377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no current plans to initiate a formal review of the student loans system in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The costs of the loan system are based on projections of graduate repayments over the next 35 years. These projections were revised in 2013-14 following changes to the student loan repayments model but will continue to fluctuate due to numerous macroeconomic variables, and present no immediate pressure on the system. Funding for new student loans is secure for the remainder of the Spending Review period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Popat question first answered 11/08/2014 11:43:29 question first ministerially corrected 08/09/2014 08:16:28 answering member 4173 label Biography information for Lord Popat previous answer version 16050 answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	3756 label Biography information for Baroness Deech

79481

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Students: Loans
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to improve the student loan system, should it prove to be too inefficient in its current format.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL1380
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no plans to initiate changes to the student loan system in England, but we continue to monitor the efficiency of the system in relation to government affordability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 11/08/2014 12:28:37 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

79521

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Statutory Instruments
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many statutory instruments from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have been laid this calendar year; of those, what percentage corrected errors in a previous instrument (including drafts of affirmative instruments that had to be superseded by correcting drafts); and what steps that Department is taking to reduce the need for correcting instruments.
	tabling member printed	Lord Goodlad
	uin	HL1420
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has laid 71 statutory instruments<strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong>(SI’s) in this year to date. The table below shows those that have been identified as</p><p> </p><p>correcting errors in previous SI’s and the SI’s corrected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The legal advisers in the Department for Business have this year reviewed and refreshed</p><p> </p><p>both the processes for the checking of SI’s and the training given to lawyers on drafting</p><p> </p><p>SI’s. This should reduce the incidence of drafting errors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>The Copyright and Duration of Rights in Performances (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/434]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2013/1782</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2014 [2014/578]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2007/3291</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) (No 3) 2014 [2014/787]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2014/271</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Enterprise Act 2002 (Protection of Legitimate Interests) Order 2014 [2014/891]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2003/1592</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Copyright (Regulation of Relevant Licensing Bodies) Regulations 2014[2014/898]</p></td><td><p>Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 5 February and published on 10 February</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 [2014/1771]</p></td><td><p>Corrects an error in SI 2013/3113</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The European Union (Definition of Treaties) (Convention on Internal Interests in Mobile Equipment and Protocol thereto on matters specific to Aircraft Equipment) Order 2014 [2014/1885]</p></td><td><p>Supersedes draft Statutory Instrument of the same title laid before Parliament on 11 March and published on 13 March</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The table does not include drafts of affirmative instruments which were superseded by a further draft in identical form by reason of affirmative resolutions not having been obtained before the end of the 2013-2014 Parliamentary session and the identical draft being laid in the 2014-2015 session.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/08/2014 12:46:50 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	670 label Biography information for Lord Goodlad

79204

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	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, what requirements there are for delivery partners to monitor the gender of (a) applicants for and (b) recipients of government-backed (i) grants and (ii) loan schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	206824
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <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> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206822 206825 question first answered 11/09/2014 15:35:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

79205

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	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 and what proportion of applicants for (a) grants or (b) loans underwritten by the Government were female in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	206825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <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> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206822 206824 question first answered 11/09/2014 15:35:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

79206

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	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 and what proportion of recipients of (a) grants or (b) loans underwritten by the Government were female in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	206822
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <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> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206824 206825 question first answered 11/09/2014 15:35:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

79207

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in how many meetings in the last year between financial sector professionals and Ministers or senior officials in his Department the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has been discussed.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	206895
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Details of meetings held by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found at Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information requested in respect of other officials’ meetings is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206880 206881 206882 206883 206884 206885 206886 206887 206888 206889 206890 206891 206892 206893 206896 206897 206898 206899 206900 206901 206913 206914 206915 206916 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:22:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

79208

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in how many meetings in the last year between agricultural sector professionals and Ministers or senior officials in his Department the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has been discussed.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	206896
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Details of meetings held by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found at Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information requested in respect of other officials’ meetings is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206880 206881 206882 206883 206884 206885 206886 206887 206888 206889 206890 206891 206892 206893 206895 206897 206898 206899 206900 206901 206913 206914 206915 206916 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:22:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

79209

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in how many meetings in the last year between pharmaceutical sector professionals and Ministers or senior officials in his Department the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has been discussed.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	206897
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Details of meetings held by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found at Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information requested in respect of other officials’ meetings is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206880 206881 206882 206883 206884 206885 206886 206887 206888 206889 206890 206891 206892 206893 206895 206896 206898 206899 206900 206901 206913 206914 206915 206916 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:22:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan

79210

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2014
	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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, in how many meetings in the last year between chemical sector professionals and Ministers or senior officials in his Department the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has been discussed.
	tabling member constituency	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
	tabling member printed	Jim Sheridan
	uin	206898
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Details of meetings held by Ministers and Permanent Secretaries with external organisations are published quarterly and can be found at Gov.uk.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information requested in respect of other officials’ meetings is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 206880 206881 206882 206883 206884 206885 206886 206887 206888 206889 206890 206891 206892 206893 206895 206896 206897 206899 206900 206901 206913 206914 206915 206916 question first answered 04/09/2014 15:22:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1464 label Biography information for Jim Sheridan