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1026694

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department is taking to support freedom of speech in universities.
	tabling member constituency	Brecon and Radnorshire
	tabling member printed	Chris Davies
	uin	908223
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The government is deeply committed to protecting freedom of speech in Higher Education (HE). The Equality and Human Rights Commission and key partners in the HE sector worked with the previous Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation to develop a single piece of guidance which will set out key principles. This will enable universities and student unions to understand their obligations for protecting and supporting free speech.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/12/2018 16:40:13 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4376 label Biography information for Chris Davies

1026697

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Schools and Universities
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What recent discussions he has had with the Prime Minister on the effect on schools and universities of the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
	tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
	uin	908232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>There are regular Cabinet discussions on the impact of leaving the EU. We are considering all aspects of how exiting the EU might affect education. This includes consideration of institutions’ access to European funding sources, participation in EU funded programmes, future arrangements for migration and arrangements for access to student finance support.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 17/12/2018 16:45:09 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

797676

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	General Election 2017
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government plans to undertake a comprehensive investigation of intimidation of candidates and canvassers during the 2017 General Election.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	116639
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p><strong>At the request of the Prime Minister, the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is currently carrying out a review of the intimidation of Parliamentary candidates, including those who stood at the 2017 General Election. The Committee will be publishing its report ‘Intimidation in Public Life: A Review by the Committee on Standards in Public Life’ on Wednesday 13 December. The Government will consider the report and its recommendations carefully.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/12/2017 10:30:30 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

793082

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cervical Cancer
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, what change there has been in the number of deaths caused by cervical cancer in England in the last five years, broken down by age group; what strains of HPV have been identified as causes of death; and how many of those deaths occurred for women who had been vaccinated against HPV.
	tabling member constituency	Bassetlaw
	tabling member printed	John Mann
	uin	114867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 28/11/2017 16:12:35 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ114867.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	1387 label Biography information for Lord Mann

794094

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Loneliness
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the number of people suffering chronic loneliness (a) nationally and (b) in Sheffield.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Hallam
	tabling member printed	Jared O'Mara
	uin	115182
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 30/11/2017 11:14:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ115182.pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	4661 label Biography information for Jared O'Mara

1041635

	registered interest
	date	14/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the recommendations in the November 2018 report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students entitled A Sustainable future for international students in the UK, what plans his Department has to set an international student growth strategy focused on recruitment and student experience.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	208880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2019 answer text <p>The government fully recognises the important economic and cultural contribution that EU and international students make to the UK’s higher education sector. The government welcomes international students and there continues to be no limit on the number who can come here to study, and there are no plans to limit any institution’s ability to recruit them.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains a highly attractive destination for non-EU students with their numbers remaining at record highs, with over 170,000 non-EU entrants to UK higher education institutions for the seventh year running. The UK is a world-leading destination for study, with four universities in the world’s top 10 and 16 in the top 100 – second only to the USA. The government actively promotes study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and to over 100 countries through the British Council.</p><p> </p><p>In the Immigration White Paper, published on 19 December 2018, the government proposed to increase the post-study leave period for international students following completion of studies to 12 months for those completing a PhD, and to six months for all full-time postgraduate students and undergraduate students at institutions with degree awarding powers. Going beyond the recommendations set out by the Migration Advisory Committee, these proposals will benefit tens of thousands of international students.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 208945 question first answered 21/01/2019 13:14:32 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1023208

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018, Access to Advantage, what steps his Department is taking to tackle regional inequalities in gaining a place at an Oxbridge university.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	201164
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Widening participation to Higher Education (HE) is a priority for this government. Everyone with the capability to succeed in HE should have the opportunity to benefit from a university education, regardless of background or where they grew up.</p><p>This year, record rates of English 18 year olds, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have entered full-time university. However, more could and should be done. That is why, in our first guidance to the Office for Students, we asked them to encourage providers, particularly the most selective, to make further progress in ensuring that disadvantaged and underrepresented students can access, participate and succeed in HE.</p><p>A new transparency condition will require HE providers to publish application, offer, acceptance, non-continuation and attainment rates by socio-economic background, gender and ethnicity. This will provide greater transparency and help drive fairness on admissions and outcomes.</p><p>Prior attainment is a critical driver of access to HE and the government has asked HE providers to take on a more direct role in helping to raise attainment in schools as part of their outreach activity. All universities are expected to help raise attainment and support school improvement, including through school sponsorship and by establishing new state schools.</p><p>The National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) targets those areas of the country where progression into HE is both low overall and lower than expected (given typical GCSE attainment rates), in order to increase the number of young people from under-represented groups who go into higher education.</p><p>The department’s Opportunity Areas initiative is part of the government’s national plan for dealing with social mobility through education. The government expects universities to actively engage in these areas, to tackle local barriers.</p><p>In addition, the department launched Opportunity North East – a £24 million investment to drive rapid and sustainable improvements in education, to tackle the key issues holding young people back. We will challenge the most selective institutions to do more to increase the number of young people from the region.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 201159 question first answered 17/12/2018 15:00:43 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1023184

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Admissions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings of the Sutton Trust's report of 7 December 2018, Access to Advantage, what steps his Department is taking to increase the proportion of state school pupils applying to study at Oxbridge universities.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	201159
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>Widening participation to Higher Education (HE) is a priority for this government. Everyone with the capability to succeed in HE should have the opportunity to benefit from a university education, regardless of background or where they grew up.</p><p>This year, record rates of English 18 year olds, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have entered full-time university. However, more could and should be done. That is why, in our first guidance to the Office for Students, we asked them to encourage providers, particularly the most selective, to make further progress in ensuring that disadvantaged and underrepresented students can access, participate and succeed in HE.</p><p>A new transparency condition will require HE providers to publish application, offer, acceptance, non-continuation and attainment rates by socio-economic background, gender and ethnicity. This will provide greater transparency and help drive fairness on admissions and outcomes.</p><p>Prior attainment is a critical driver of access to HE and the government has asked HE providers to take on a more direct role in helping to raise attainment in schools as part of their outreach activity. All universities are expected to help raise attainment and support school improvement, including through school sponsorship and by establishing new state schools.</p><p>The National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) targets those areas of the country where progression into HE is both low overall and lower than expected (given typical GCSE attainment rates), in order to increase the number of young people from under-represented groups who go into higher education.</p><p>The department’s Opportunity Areas initiative is part of the government’s national plan for dealing with social mobility through education. The government expects universities to actively engage in these areas, to tackle local barriers.</p><p>In addition, the department launched Opportunity North East – a £24 million investment to drive rapid and sustainable improvements in education, to tackle the key issues holding young people back. We will challenge the most selective institutions to do more to increase the number of young people from the region.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 201164 question first answered 17/12/2018 15:00:43 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1037202

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Universities: Debts
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the article entitled University debt: credit crunch looms as debt spirals, published by the Times on 3 January 2018, what estimate he has made of the levels of debt of UK Universities; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	205828
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2019 answer text <p>​</p><p>Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for the most recent financial year available (2016/17) shows that UK universities’ external borrowing totalled £11.8 billion, equivalent to roughly 33% of sector income.[1]</p><p>In the new higher education (HE) regulatory framework, the Office for Students has responsibilities to monitor and assess the financial viability and sustainability of registered HE providers in England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] External borrowing as defined by Higher Education Statistics Agency: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c16031/key_financial_indicators" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/c16031/key_financial_indicators</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/01/2019 17:17:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

1059874

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Students: Loans
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the announcement entitled, New treatment of student loans in the public sector finances and national accounts, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in December 2018, when his Department plans to adapt their accounting practices in line the ONS decision.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	220254
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) announcement is a statistical change, therefore, there are no changes to the existing policy, operation of the student loans system and Departmental Accounts. While the ONS have announced the decision to change the treatment of student loans in the national accounts, the department’s accounting practices will continue to be consistent with the International Financial Reporting Standards, as adapted by the Government Financial Reporting Manual. During the course of 2019, the department will assist the ONS to report the statistical change in line with any new guidance issued as part of the Government Debt and Deficit manual<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 18/02/2019 17:21:47 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner