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428743

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Scottish Power
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress has been made towards a resolution of the Scottish Power cashback mis-selling dispute since his meeting in July 2015 with the CEO of the Insolvency Service.
	tabling member constituency	Dumfries and Galloway
	tabling member printed	Richard Arkless
	uin	16713
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>I have asked my officials to seek an update from Scottish Power on what steps they are taking in this matter.</p> answering member constituency Bromsgrove answering member printed Sajid Javid question first answered 25/11/2015 17:39:56 answering member 3945 label Biography information for Sir Sajid Javid
	tabling member	4387 label Biography information for Richard Arkless

428630

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Refugees: English Language
	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 of withdrawal of ESOL Plus mandated funding on the ability of refugees in the UK to access ESOL courses.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	16584
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The decision to withdraw the 2015/16 ESOL Plus (Mandation) funding was taken in the knowledge that providers could use their adult skills budget to continue to provide ESOL training for jobseekers and therefore mitigate any adverse impact. Our data showed that the numbers of claimants being referred to ESOL Plus (Mandation) provision was significantly lower than originally anticipated.</p><p>Adults who are granted refugee status or humanitarian protection become eligible for skills funding through the adult skills budget, as any other English resident and are not subject to the normal 3 year qualifying period.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/11/2015 14:14:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

428748

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Apprentices
	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 apprenticeship starts there have been in each year since 1997.
	tabling member constituency	Wells
	tabling member printed	James Heappey
	uin	16673
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>Table 1 shows the number of Apprenticeship starts in England from the 1997/98 academic year to 2014/15.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><p><strong>Table 1: Apprenticeship Starts, England, 1997/98 to 2014/15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Apprenticeship Starts</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td colspan="2"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1997/98</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>75,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1998/99</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>118,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999/00</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>165,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000/01</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>177,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001/02</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>162,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>-</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002/03</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>167,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003/04</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>193,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004/05</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>189,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005/06</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>175,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>184,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>224,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>239,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>279,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>457,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>520,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>510,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>440,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>499,900</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>1) Data source for 2002/03 onwards is the Individualised Learner Record. Data source from 1997/98 to 2001/02 was the Individualised Student Record, managed by the Further Education Funding Council. Therefore data prior to 2002/03 is not directly comparable to later years.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Data for 2002/03 onwards is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships</a></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>3) Data prior to 2002/03 are rounded to the nearest thousand.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>4) Data from 2002/03 onwards are rounded to the nearest hundred.</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 25/11/2015 11:54:42 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

428745

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Apprentices: Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether businesses will be permitted to allocate their apprenticeship-levied funds to small and medium-sized enterprises and other business in their supply chain; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
	uin	16690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2015 answer text <p>My Rt hon Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will announce further details of the apprenticeship levy at the Spending Review, including the scope and rate of the levy.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/11/2015 11:09:32 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

428742

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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	Funerals
	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 potential merits of introducing statutory regulations of the funeral industry.
	tabling member constituency	Walsall South
	tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
	uin	16680
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department has not made an assessment regarding this issue.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/11/2015 15:53:05 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

428631

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2015
	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: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether his Department plans to measure the (a) educational, (b) labour market and (c) societal outcomes of student opportunity allocation funding using individual-based data on a national level.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	16612
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) recently published its policy framework for the student opportunity allocation: 'Delivering opportunities for students and maximising their success' which can be found at the following link: <a href="http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2015/201514/" target="_blank">http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2015/201514/</a>. This set out its expectation that new initiatives will only be funded where they have robust evaluation plans in place, including the application of suitable research methods and the appropriate use of individual and national level data. HEFCE also plans to develop a framework setting out the outcomes against which the HE sector will be expected to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of its work. It is envisaged this will include a range of educational, labour market and, where possible, wider societal outcomes.</p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 23/11/2015 14:25:22 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson