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423219

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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	Further Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether hon. Members are always informed when a post-16 area-based review is announced for an area which includes their constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	12976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Yes. The Joint Area Review Delivery Unit supporting the area reviews will advise Hon. Membersas a matter of course when reviews are due to be undertaken in any part of their constituency.</p><br /><p>Area reviews should take place as quickly as possible, the typical timescale being 3-4 months but this could vary depending on the number of colleges and complexity of the local issues involved.</p><br /><p>The reviews are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas whilst also ensuring the long term sustainability of colleges to support productivity. Their purpose is not to secure savings to Government. However, early evidence from the pilot reviews indicates that there is potential for the reviews to secure efficiency savings.</p><br /><p>All applications to open a free school, academy, school sixth form or university technical college will be assessed on a case by case basis against the published criteria and taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 12977 12978 12979 question first answered 03/11/2015 15:51:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423221

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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	Further Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how long the process of undertaking a post-16 area-based review will take in each area for which they are planned or already underway.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	12978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Yes. The Joint Area Review Delivery Unit supporting the area reviews will advise Hon. Membersas a matter of course when reviews are due to be undertaken in any part of their constituency.</p><br /><p>Area reviews should take place as quickly as possible, the typical timescale being 3-4 months but this could vary depending on the number of colleges and complexity of the local issues involved.</p><br /><p>The reviews are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas whilst also ensuring the long term sustainability of colleges to support productivity. Their purpose is not to secure savings to Government. However, early evidence from the pilot reviews indicates that there is potential for the reviews to secure efficiency savings.</p><br /><p>All applications to open a free school, academy, school sixth form or university technical college will be assessed on a case by case basis against the published criteria and taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 12976 12977 12979 question first answered 03/11/2015 15:51:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423222

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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	Further 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 assessment he has made of the possible savings to his Department of the outcome of post-16 area-based reviews.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	12979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Yes. The Joint Area Review Delivery Unit supporting the area reviews will advise Hon. Membersas a matter of course when reviews are due to be undertaken in any part of their constituency.</p><br /><p>Area reviews should take place as quickly as possible, the typical timescale being 3-4 months but this could vary depending on the number of colleges and complexity of the local issues involved.</p><br /><p>The reviews are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas whilst also ensuring the long term sustainability of colleges to support productivity. Their purpose is not to secure savings to Government. However, early evidence from the pilot reviews indicates that there is potential for the reviews to secure efficiency savings.</p><br /><p>All applications to open a free school, academy, school sixth form or university technical college will be assessed on a case by case basis against the published criteria and taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 12976 12977 12978 question first answered 03/11/2015 15:51:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423223

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2015
	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	Further Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether an (a) free school, (b) academy, (c) school sixth form and (d) university technical college will be allowed to open while a post-16 area-based review is still taking place.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	12977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Yes. The Joint Area Review Delivery Unit supporting the area reviews will advise Hon. Membersas a matter of course when reviews are due to be undertaken in any part of their constituency.</p><br /><p>Area reviews should take place as quickly as possible, the typical timescale being 3-4 months but this could vary depending on the number of colleges and complexity of the local issues involved.</p><br /><p>The reviews are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas whilst also ensuring the long term sustainability of colleges to support productivity. Their purpose is not to secure savings to Government. However, early evidence from the pilot reviews indicates that there is potential for the reviews to secure efficiency savings.</p><br /><p>All applications to open a free school, academy, school sixth form or university technical college will be assessed on a case by case basis against the published criteria and taking account of local needs and circumstances.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 12976 12978 12979 question first answered 03/11/2015 15:51:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

424202

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	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	Small Businesses: Commuters
	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 effect on small and medium-sized businesses of the recent ruling of the European Court of Justice on time spent travelling to work.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	13551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>This Government wants to ensure that the Working Time Directive promotes long-term, sustainable growth and labour market flexibility, and does not impose significant burdens on business. The recent ruling of the European Court of Justice means that journeys made by workers without a fixed or habitual place of work between their homes and the first and last customer of the day constitute working time under the Working Time Directive.</p><p>All employers, regardless of size, of workers without a fixed or habitual place of work need to ensure that this time is taken into account for the calculation of working hours. The ruling has no general consequences for pay.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/11/2015 15:21:33 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

423865

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	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	Further Education: Teachers
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent discussions he has had with further education sector stakeholders on increasing the number of mathematics subjects teachers in that sector.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	13447
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>This Department does not hold this information. The Further Education (FE) sector is independent of government and responsible for its own operations. We therefore do not collect information about the numbers of English or mathematics teachers employed by FE institutions.</p><br /><p>This Department has ongoing discussions with FE stakeholder organisations about the importance of increasing the number of teachers of mathematics in the sector, as set out in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">FE Workforce Strategy</a> published in 2014. The government, through its support of bursaries and other workforce programmes, provided 199 bursaries to individuals to become maths teachers in the Further Education sector in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and also supported 2450 existing teachers to take maths enhancement programmes.</p><br /><p>Area Reviews of Post-16 education and training are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas. All reviews will include consideration of the need for sufficient, high quality maths and English teaching. As independent organisations, colleges and providers will determine the number of teachers they need to deliver this provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 13325 13326 13448 question first answered 03/11/2015 14:10:51 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423866

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	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	Further Education: Teachers
	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 possibility that organisational changes resulting from further education area reviews may reduce the number of teachers employed to teach (a) mathematics and (b) English language subjects in the further education sector in England.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	13448
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>This Department does not hold this information. The Further Education (FE) sector is independent of government and responsible for its own operations. We therefore do not collect information about the numbers of English or mathematics teachers employed by FE institutions.</p><br /><p>This Department has ongoing discussions with FE stakeholder organisations about the importance of increasing the number of teachers of mathematics in the sector, as set out in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">FE Workforce Strategy</a> published in 2014. The government, through its support of bursaries and other workforce programmes, provided 199 bursaries to individuals to become maths teachers in the Further Education sector in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and also supported 2450 existing teachers to take maths enhancement programmes.</p><br /><p>Area Reviews of Post-16 education and training are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas. All reviews will include consideration of the need for sufficient, high quality maths and English teaching. As independent organisations, colleges and providers will determine the number of teachers they need to deliver this provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 13325 13326 13447 question first answered 03/11/2015 14:10:51 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423867

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	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	Further Education: Teachers
	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 teachers were employed in teaching mathematics subjects in the further education sector in England at the start of (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15 and (f) 2015-16 academic years.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	13325
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>This Department does not hold this information. The Further Education (FE) sector is independent of government and responsible for its own operations. We therefore do not collect information about the numbers of English or mathematics teachers employed by FE institutions.</p><br /><p>This Department has ongoing discussions with FE stakeholder organisations about the importance of increasing the number of teachers of mathematics in the sector, as set out in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">FE Workforce Strategy</a> published in 2014. The government, through its support of bursaries and other workforce programmes, provided 199 bursaries to individuals to become maths teachers in the Further Education sector in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and also supported 2450 existing teachers to take maths enhancement programmes.</p><br /><p>Area Reviews of Post-16 education and training are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas. All reviews will include consideration of the need for sufficient, high quality maths and English teaching. As independent organisations, colleges and providers will determine the number of teachers they need to deliver this provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 13326 13447 13448 question first answered 03/11/2015 14:10:50 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

423868

	registered interest
	date	26/10/2015
	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	Further Education: Teachers
	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 teachers were employed in teaching English language subjects in the further education sector in England at the start of (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14, (e) 2014-15 and (f) 2015-16 academic years.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	13326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>This Department does not hold this information. The Further Education (FE) sector is independent of government and responsible for its own operations. We therefore do not collect information about the numbers of English or mathematics teachers employed by FE institutions.</p><br /><p>This Department has ongoing discussions with FE stakeholder organisations about the importance of increasing the number of teachers of mathematics in the sector, as set out in our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-workforce-strategy" target="_blank">FE Workforce Strategy</a> published in 2014. The government, through its support of bursaries and other workforce programmes, provided 199 bursaries to individuals to become maths teachers in the Further Education sector in 2013/14 and 2014/15, and also supported 2450 existing teachers to take maths enhancement programmes.</p><br /><p>Area Reviews of Post-16 education and training are aimed at delivering a skills system that meets the economic and educational needs of areas. All reviews will include consideration of the need for sufficient, high quality maths and English teaching. As independent organisations, colleges and providers will determine the number of teachers they need to deliver this provision.</p><br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 13325 13447 13448 question first answered 03/11/2015 14:10:50 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

424200

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2015
	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, how many 24+ Advanced Learner Loans his Department estimated would be issued to people over the age of 24 studying for Level 3 and Level 4 qualifications in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; what budget his Department allocated to such loans in each of those years; how many Advanced Learner Loans were issued for that cohort in each of those years; and how many of the issued loans were for (i) access to Higher Education courses and (ii) Level 3 and 4 qualifications.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	13676
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The “New Challenges, New Chances” consultation stage impact assessment “Further Education—Level 3+ Loans” published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 16 August 2011 contained estimates as follows:</p><ul><li>For the 2013-14 financial year, it was estimated that 186,000 learners aged 24 and above would be supported to start level 3 and level 4 courses. This estimate included both starts supported through loans for the academic year starting in September 2013 (when these loans were introduced), and grant-funded starts prior to that. No separate estimate of loan-funded learners was available.</li><li>The estimate of starts to be funded by 24+ Advanced Learning Loans for 2014-15 financial year was 171,000. These estimates also included Apprenticeships which were removed from 24+ Advanced Learning Loans in March 2014.</li></ul><p>The number of students the budget supports depends on the level of demand and the cost of the courses that students choose. The skills investment strategy published by BIS on 1December 2011 confirmed the budget for further education loans as £129 million in 2013-14 and £398 million in 2014-15. These budgets were not revised.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/6385/slcosp042015.pdf" target="_blank">24+ Advanced Learning Loans paid in England</a> report by the Student Loans Company published on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2015 shows 55,900 learners in the 2013/14 academic year cohort were issued with loans for qualifications at level 3 and above, and 55,100 learners were issued to the 2014/15 academic year cohort.</p><p>Data is not available to split the loans issued between Access to HE Diploma courses and other level 3 and level 4 courses. We can, however split the number of approved applications in this way, with the caveat that approved applications are not indicative of actual starts. These are shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 3 and level 4</p></td><td><p>56,220</p></td><td><p>56,850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Access to HE Diplomas</p></td><td><p>15,590</p></td><td><p>14,440</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Student Loans Company</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/11/2015 14:12:34 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden