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451458

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what sanctions can be taken against the Office of the Independent Adjudicator if it misses the 90-day target in issuing complaint outcomes set by the European Directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	26674
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>Should an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution provider, such<br>as the Office for the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA),be found<br>to be continually failing to comply with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Regulations<br>2015, the Government has set out a process that enables an appointed body (the<br>Chartered Trading Standards Institute) to monitor compliance, recommend<br>improvements and, ultimately, remove a body from the approved list.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The OIA is independent of Government and funded by compulsory subscriptions<br>from higher education providers. All higher education providers in receipt of<br>student support funding are required, through legislation, to join the OIA and pay<br>subscription fees. The OIA makes an assessment each year of the level of<br>funding it requires to ensure that its costs can be met.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 26675 question first answered 17/02/2016 15:45:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

451459

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what additional resources his Department plans to make available to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator to ensure it meets the 90-day target in issuing complaint outcomes set by the European Directive on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
	uin	26675
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>Should an approved Alternative Dispute Resolution provider, such<br>as the Office for the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA),be found<br>to be continually failing to comply with the Alternative Dispute Resolution Regulations<br>2015, the Government has set out a process that enables an appointed body (the<br>Chartered Trading Standards Institute) to monitor compliance, recommend<br>improvements and, ultimately, remove a body from the approved list.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The OIA is independent of Government and funded by compulsory subscriptions<br>from higher education providers. All higher education providers in receipt of<br>student support funding are required, through legislation, to join the OIA and pay<br>subscription fees. The OIA makes an assessment each year of the level of<br>funding it requires to ensure that its costs can be met.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 26674 question first answered 17/02/2016 15:45:44 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

451661

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Academic Freedom
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the implications for freedom of speech in universities of recent reports of violent protests at an Israeli Society event at King's College London.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	26522
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government strongly opposes any kind of violence or intimidation that curtails free speech in universities and leads to the closure of peaceful meetings.</p><p>King’s College London has undertaken its own review of the protests at the Israeli Society event on 19<sup>th</sup> January and concluded that a number of individuals “intentionally disrupted the rights of others to exercise freedom of speech within the law”.</p><p>Whilst the violent protests were deplorable, KCL has acted to reiterate its commitment to free speech and take disciplinary measures against individuals concerned.</p><p>The Prevent duty introduced in September 2015 requires institutions to have robust policies and procedures in place to manage events such as this in order to protect students and staff and safeguard freedom of speech. As the designated monitoring body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will be making an assessment of compliance with the requirements of the duty.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 26665 question first answered 17/02/2016 14:47:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

451660

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Academic Freedom
	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 has taken to ensure that freedom of speech in universities is safeguarded; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the reported forced closure of an Israel Society event at King's College London on his Department's policies.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	26665
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government strongly opposes any kind of violence or intimidation that curtails free speech in universities and leads to the closure of peaceful meetings.</p><p>King’s College London has undertaken its own review of the protests at the Israeli Society event on 19<sup>th</sup> January and concluded that a number of individuals “intentionally disrupted the rights of others to exercise freedom of speech within the law”.</p><p>Whilst the violent protests were deplorable, KCL has acted to reiterate its commitment to free speech and take disciplinary measures against individuals concerned.</p><p>The Prevent duty introduced in September 2015 requires institutions to have robust policies and procedures in place to manage events such as this in order to protect students and staff and safeguard freedom of speech. As the designated monitoring body, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will be making an assessment of compliance with the requirements of the duty.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 26522 question first answered 17/02/2016 14:47:48 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

450652

	registered interest
	date	04/02/2016
	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	National Institute of Adult Continuing Education: Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the merger of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education and the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Rebuck
	uin	HL5953
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>No assessment has been made of the merger of these two independent organisations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/02/2016 14:31:34 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4332 label Biography information for Baroness Rebuck

451140

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Legislation
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice has been provided this Session for ministers or senior officials in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on whether to use secondary legislation or primary legislation for significant legislation.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Smith of Basildon
	uin	HL6006
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>There has been no change in approach to the use of primary and secondary legislation since the General Election. Each piece of legislation is approached within the context of the policy and the existing legislative framework. There is no evidence of an increase in the number of statutory instruments laid since 2010 or since the General Election. Briefing produced by the House of Commons Library (CBP 7438) shows that the number of statutory instruments laid before the House of Commons peaked at 1,885 in the 2005-06 session, compared to 1,378 last session and 540 so far this session.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/02/2016 14:12:48 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4170 label Biography information for Baroness Smith of Basildon

451577

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Medicine: Research
	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 he is taking to ensure UK universities are closely co-ordinating their medical research.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	26480
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>My Department funds medical research in universities via the Medical Research Council (MRC). The MRC supports and encourages collaboration between UK universities across all of its funding programmes, and also supports collaboration through targeted initiatives such as:</p><ul><li>The Farr Institute, which is jointly funded by the MRC, Government and research charities and brings together 19 university partners to create a UK-wide platform for health informatics research. The Institute provides the physical and electronic infrastructure to facilitate collaboration across the partner universities, and support their safe use of patient and research data for medical research.</li><li>MRC support for 13 stratified medicine research consortia, addressing conditions such as arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, schizophrenia and dementia. The initiative involves 32 UK universities, with each consortia involving around 7 universities.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Working together, the Research Councils have developed an RCUK framework for principles in funding multi-institutional collaborations in research. Further details on the framework can be found here: <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/principles/" target="_blank">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/principles/</a>.</p><p>Innovate UK also works with universities to drive translation of university-based research and innovation into commercial applications which tackle disease and life-threatening illnesses. Additionally, Innovate UK, through the Catapult network, provides access to leading-edge technology, facilities and expertise in Cell and Gene Therapy, Precision Medicine and Medicines Technologies.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 17/02/2016 15:23:43 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

451593

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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	Antibiotics: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information his Department holds on how many new antibiotics are in development by UK companies.
	tabling member constituency	Stafford
	tabling member printed	Jeremy Lefroy
	uin	26571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>The Department does not hold information on how many new antibiotics are in development by UK companies.</p><p>The independent review on antimicrobial resistance led by Lord O’Neill publication Securing New Drugs for Future Generations – the Pipeline of antibiotics, provides a high-level assessment of the development pipeline for new antibiotics:</p><p><a href="http://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/SECURING%20NEW%20DRUGS%20FOR%20FUTURE%20GENERATIONS%20FINAL%20WEB_0.pdf" target="_blank">http://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/SECURING%20NEW%20DRUGS%20FOR%20FUTURE%20GENERATIONS%20FINAL%20WEB_0.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 17/02/2016 15:08:47 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	4109 label Biography information for Jeremy Lefroy

451792

	registered interest
	date	09/02/2016
	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: Plagiarism
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government,  further to the Written Answer by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park on 26 January (HL5024), whether the Quality Assurance Agency requests data from higher education institutions regarding the number of cases of plagiarism and how those cases were handled each year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL6067
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>There is no centrally held set of data on the number of recorded plagiarism cases in higher education. This is an institutional matter and cases are handled by individual institutions.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 17/02/2016 14:39:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

452150

	registered interest
	date	10/02/2016
	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	Exports
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact on exports of the decision to reduce the budget of UK Trade and Investment.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Burt of Solihull
	uin	HL6097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/02/2016 answer text <p>Savings will be broadly delivered through implementing a new digital infrastructure to provide cost-effective access to export services; contractual efficiencies; and prioritising market and sector opportunities that will add most value to UK exports. This is about being more efficient and delivering for UK businesses, including through enhancing direct support and developing the private sector market.</p><p>HM Treasury has recognised the importance of the exports agenda by agreeing that £175m of further proposed savings between 2016-17 and 2019-20 should be reinvested in priority areas. The Government is committed to driving a step-change in UK exports and the reinvestment secured to refocus UK Trade &amp; Investment will help us deliver this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Maude of Horsham question first answered 17/02/2016 14:05:33 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1567 label Biography information for Baroness Burt of Solihull