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167934

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 19:45:52
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:47:11
	answering body	The Lord Chairman of Committees
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	200
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name	Chairman of Committees (HoL)
	hansard heading	Abingdon Green
	house id	2
	identifier	HL3458
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	15/12/2014 12:31:45
	question text	To ask the Chairman of Committees how much income is received per year for permissions to the media for temporary structures on College Green.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Hylton
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL3458
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3458
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Abingdon Green is owned by the House of Commons, although its utilisation is managed by Black Rod. The House of Lords does not receive any income for temporary structures used by the media on College Green.</p> question first answered 15/12/2014 12:31:45 answering member 2124
	creator	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	2018 label Biography information for Lord Hylton

167913

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 19:45:44
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:46:40
	answering body	Attorney General
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	2
	identifier	HL3437
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 14:45:52
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions for phone scamming offences there were in each year from 2010.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL3437
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3437
	version	2
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service maintains a central record of the number of prosecutions it conducts for fraud and/or forgery offences; however, it is not possible to identify which of these offences were conducted, in whole or in part, through the telephone. To obtain this information would require a manual file examination which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> question first answered 16/12/2014 14:45:52 answering member 630
	creator	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

167912

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 19:45:43
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:46:38
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Postgraduate Education
	house id	2
	identifier	HL3436
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 17:10:35
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what the repayment terms for the proposed postgraduate student loan system will be.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL3436
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3436
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Repayment terms for taught postgraduate loans announced at Autumn Statement have not been finalised. The Government will launch a consultation early in the New Year to inform the design and terms of the loan before final decisions are taken.</p><p> </p><p>Postgraduate taught loans will be designed so that most individuals will repay in full, in recognition of the high private return to individuals, but they will beat commercial rates. One way of doing this is to charge an interest rate of RPI+3%, with repayments of 9% of income above a threshold of £21,000, frozen for 5 years, repaid concurrently with undergraduate loans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 16/12/2014 17:10:35 answering member 4311
	creator	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

167917

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 19:45:45
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:46:45
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology
	house id	2
	identifier	HL3441
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 17:24:47
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of Disabled Students' Allowance is provided for (1) computers and assistive technology, and (2) training to use that technology.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Addington
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL3441
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3441
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on Disabled Students’ Allowance expenditure is not available at the level requested.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of Disabled Students’ Allowance expenditure by allowance type was presented in<em> ‘Disabled Students’ Allowance: Equality Analysis’, </em>which was published in October 2014.” The publication can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364182/bis-14-1108-higher-education-disabled-students-allowances-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364182/bis-14-1108-higher-education-disabled-students-allowances-equality-analysis.pdf</a></p><p> </p> question first answered 16/12/2014 17:24:47 answering member 4311
	creator	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

167918

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	18/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 19:45:46
	ddp modified	06/02/2015 19:46:47
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	2
	identifier	HL3442
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	16/12/2014 17:20:43
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of the Disabled Students' Allowance is provided as one-to-one support for students.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member printed	Lord Addington
	title	House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 HL3442
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	HL3442
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Information on Disabled Students’ Allowance expenditure is not available at the level requested.</p><p> </p><p>A breakdown of Disabled Students’ Allowance expenditure by allowance type was presented in<em> ‘Disabled Students’ Allowance: Equality Analysis’, </em>which was published in October 2014.” The publication can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364182/bis-14-1108-higher-education-disabled-students-allowances-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/364182/bis-14-1108-higher-education-disabled-students-allowances-equality-analysis.pdf</a></p><p> </p> question first answered 16/12/2014 17:20:43 answering member 4311
	creator	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington
	publisher	25277 pref label House of Lords
	tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

167963

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 21:00:21
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 13:58:48
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Higher Education: Finance
	house id	1
	identifier	217152
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	09/12/2014 13:42:01
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to Annex 1 of his Department's grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England for 2014-15, whether he plans to amend funding priorities for social mobility in higher education for 2015-16.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
	tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217152
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217152
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>The Government will set out our priorities for higher education for 2015-16 in the annual Grant Letter to the Funding Council.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 09/12/2014 13:42:01 answering member 1578
	creator	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

167964

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	08/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 21:00:21
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 13:58:55
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Mentorsme
	house id	1
	identifier	217143
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	07/01/2015 11:29:15
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the performance of the Mentors Me website.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
	tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217143
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217143
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>Last year the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funded the creation of a network of 27,000 accredited business mentors and partnered with the British Bankers Association (BBA) and Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) to create the mentorsme website. BBA and SFEDI now lead this initiative and have established a sector-led Enterprise Mentoring Advisory Council with responsibility for assessing the performance of the mentorsme website and the initiative overall.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Advisory Council also have responsibility for upholding the standards for enterprise mentoring, promoting awareness of the benefits of and access to enterprise mentoring and acting as a central policy advisory group.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>BIS has a seat on the Advisory Council and continues to support mentorsme by driving awareness and take up of mentoring as part of the national Business is GREAT campaign and by sharing research evidence and insight.</p> question first answered 07/01/2015 11:29:15 answering member 4070
	creator	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

167965

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	08/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 21:00:22
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 13:59:01
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	house id	1
	identifier	217158
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	09/12/2014 15:00:20
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he expects to bring forward delegated legislation to set the level of fine available to the Groceries Code Adjudicator.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
	tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217158
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217158
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	Ordinary
	answer	answer answer text <p>As required by section 9 of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013, the Adjudicator has consulted on a proposed maximum penalty, and has made a recommendation to the Secretary of State. This is currently the subject of cross-Government Ministerial consideration.</p><p> </p> question first answered 09/12/2014 15:00:20 answering member 1513
	creator	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

167966

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	10/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 21:00:22
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 13:59:11
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	New Businesses: Milton Keynes
	house id	1
	identifier	217179
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/12/2014 15:04:30
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many businesses have been started in Milton Keynes in the last 12 months.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes South
	tabling member printed	Iain Stewart
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217179
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217179
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>This Government is committed to making Britain the best place in the world to start and grow a business. As part of our long term economic plan, we have thrown our weight behind small businesses as they grow our economy, create jobs for others and help communities prosper. In Milton Keynes an estimated 2,300 business have been started between November 2013 and October 2014, according to BankSearch data.</p><p> </p> question first answered 10/12/2014 15:04:30 answering member 4070
	creator	4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart

167967

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	09/12/2014
	date	04/12/2014
	date tabled	04/12/2014
	ddp created	04/12/2014 21:00:23
	ddp modified	08/02/2015 13:59:16
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Postgraduate Education
	house id	1
	identifier	217197
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	10/12/2014 16:27:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what equality impact assessment in relation to gender his Department carried out on the proposal to limit the new postgraduate student loan finance to students under 30.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
	tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 217197
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	217197
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p>A preliminary equality impact assessment undertaken by the Department suggests there is little difference between the proportions of men and women undertaking postgraduate taught courses under 30 and those who are older, or in their propensity to study part-time. We will gather further evidence as part of the consultation before finalising the terms of the postgraduate taught loan.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> question first answered 10/12/2014 16:27:33 answering member 1578
	creator	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin