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100024

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Community Health Services: Devon
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will increase funding from the Better Care Fund to improve the transition of community services in Devon.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	905558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Better Care Fund is a pooled budget of £3.8 billion to be spent on integrating Health and Social care. Local areas will decide how best to use their funding to transform the provision of services to their communities, both improving outcomes for people, and driving efficiencies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Norfolk answering member printed Norman Lamb question first answered 21/10/2014 15:44:45 answering member 1439 label Biography information for Norman Lamb
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

46232

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when RAF enlistment papers and information given to prospective recruits will be updated to reflect the extended discharge as of right for recruits enlisting under the age of 18 years old, as introduced in the Armed Forces (Terms of Service) (Amendment) Regulations 2011.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	194725
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The RAF's enlistment paperwork was updated immediately after the Amendment in 2011 and continues correctly to reflect the rights for discharge of airmen under 18 years of age.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79286

	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when his Department plans to make a decision about future funding of students and recognition of courses at the 23 private colleges which it suspended from recruiting further students in November 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department required all alternative providers to reapply to have their courses designated for student support for the 2014/15 academic year. All alternative providers, including those that had their designations suspended for the remainder of the 2013/14 academic year, are being reviewed against the new criteria, and have already received a final decision or have been invited to submit additional information.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 09/09/2014 16:15:12 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79287

	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	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance his Department has issued to the 23 private colleges which it suspended from recruiting further students in November 2013 on their ability to advertise and recruit students to commence courses in September 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2014 answer text <p>The Department required all alternative providers to reapply to have their courses designated for student support for the 2014/15 academic year. All alternative providers, including those that had their designations suspended for the remainder of the 2013/14 academic year, were told that they should not advertise their courses as attracting student support until such time as these course had been redesignated.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 09/09/2014 16:12:59 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79288

	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: Disadvantaged
	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 he has to widen access to and inclusion in further and higher education for mature, disadvantaged and other harder to reach students.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>This Government has been very clear about the importance of widening participation and improving fair access in higher education – all those with the ability should have access to higher education, irrespective of family income.</p><p>In April we published the new <em>National strategy for access and student success. </em>It will help to ensure that all those with the potential to benefit from higher education have equal opportunity to participate and succeed. Our reforms and new funding methodology have ensured that institutions are investing significantly in widening student access to higher education. Through their access agreements with the Office for Fair Access, institutions plan by 2018/19 to increase their spending on outreach, student success and student financial support measures to £735 million, up from £444 million in 2011/12.</p><p>Similarly it is important that young people and adults from disadvantaged groups are able to access good quality further education and skills training to help them to find employment, participate in their local community and to lead a more independent life.</p><p>We provide ‘Learning Support’ funding to colleges and providers to help people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. We support unemployed people into work by funding units and qualifications in vocational skills, and we fully fund all adults to achieve their first English and maths GCSE. We contribute £210 million a year to support non-formal Community Learning, attracting disadvantaged groups and mature learners who have had very few previous opportunities to engage in education.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 03/09/2014 16:42:27 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79289

	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: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what allowance his Department makes for the proportion of mature, disadvantage and harder to reach students any college has on its student rolls when assessing the adequacy of the college's student attendance rates.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207046
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has no role in assessing the adequacy of student attendance rates in further education (FE) colleges.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s school and college inspection body, Ofsted, in their judgement on a college’s outcome from learners may comment on low attendance and punctuality as an area for improvement and will look at how a college’s achievement gaps are narrowing between different groups of learners.</p><p> </p><p>Where Ofsted rate a college inadequate, BIS will take intervention action.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 01/09/2014 16:33:06 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79290

	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	Private 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 plans his Department has for increasing the role of private colleges in provision of further and higher education; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207047
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>In September 2014 the Department will invite both new and existing alternative providers to apply to have new courses designated so that their students may have access for student support in the 2015/16 academic year. There will also be an additional opportunity for providers to apply in February 2015. For the 2015/16 academic year we will allow student numbers at high quality alternative providers to be freed from student number controls in a similar manner as for HEFCE-funded provision, but we will continue to retain a control on numbers at higher risk provision.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 03/09/2014 16:39:41 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

79291

	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	London School of Science and Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether any official in his Department amended, or caused to be amended, the report of the Internal Audit Investigation Team which visited the London School of Science and Technology between 30 June and 2 July 2014; who made such amendments; and what amendments were so made.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p>The text of the published report is exclusively the responsibility of the investigating office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 13/10/2014 14:44:58 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

89592

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Floods: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will establish a scheme to provide affordable insurance cover for leasehold dwellings and small businesses in areas at high risk of flooding modelled on the existing Flood Re scheme for freehold dwellings.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government has been advised by the insurance industry that those leaseholders in high risk areas who will not be eligible for Flood Re will still be able to access affordable insurance. Insurers will also continue to provide insurance to small businesses in areas of high flood risk on a competitive basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Based on current evidence, Flood Re would not be an appropriate scheme for leasehold properties and small businesses in areas at a high risk of flooding.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Government has separately commissioned research into the commercial insurance market as part of its evidence gathering.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Cornwall answering member printed Dan Rogerson question first answered 02/09/2014 15:53:33 answering member 1504 label Biography information for Dan Rogerson
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey

89990

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2014
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs: South West
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of proposed closures of HM Revenue and Customs' enquiry centres on people in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
	tabling member constituency	North Devon
	tabling member printed	Sir Nick Harvey
	uin	207739
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) launched a new service across the UK on 29 May 2014 to support people who need extra help in getting their tax and benefits right. This replaced HMRC’s network of 281 Enquiry Centre’s which closed to the public on 30 June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>The decision to make this change was based on extensive evaluation from independent customer research, a 10-week public consultation exercise and a successful pilot of the new service which took place in the North East of England involving the closure of 13 Enquiry Centres from June to Dec 2013.</p><p> </p><p>The evaluation assessed the impact and effect on rural areas, transport links and costs to customers.</p><p> </p><p>The new service is more accessible to these communities, since customers are able to arrange appointments with HMRC at locations convenient to them, this includes visits to their home if appropriate.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 08/09/2014 14:49:05 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
	tabling member	231 label Biography information for Sir Nick Harvey