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	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships were created in the last Parliament (1) nationally, and (2) in North Lincolnshire, and how many they are intending to create during this Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Baroness Redfern
	uin	HL4035
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>There have been 324,800 apprenticeship starts in the manufacturing technologies sector subject area nationally in the last parliament (May 2010 to April 2015).</p><br /><p>In North Lincolnshire Local Authority there have been 1,500 apprenticeship starts in the manufacturing technologies sector subject area in the last parliament (May 2010 to April 2015).</p><br /><p>We are committed to reaching 3 million apprenticeship starts in England by 2020.</p><p>The locations and sectors where apprenticeships are available are determined by employers choosing to offer apprenticeships and recruit apprentices. We have therefore set no specific regional targets.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/12/2015 12:34:30 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4551 label Biography information for Baroness Redfern

435767

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Internet: Small Businesses
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the proportion of small businesses which do not have an online presence.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	18962
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills 2014 Small Business Survey shows that 36% of all small businesses do not have a website. Further research on small businesses' digital capabilities was published on 9th September 2015. The Office for National Statistics also publishes information on businesses’ e-commerce and ICT activity. It should be noted that 46% of small businesses use social media.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/12/2015 11:38:25 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

433133

	registered interest
	date	30/11/2015
	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 Limited Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies on tackling fraud and money laundering of the findings by Kroll in a report prepared for the National Bank of Moldova in April 2015 on fraud and money laundering in that country, that all but one of the limited partnerships involved had a registered place of business in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
	tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
	uin	18100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>We are aware of the findings of the Kroll report which makes general observations based on publically-available records. We have not corroborated the accuracy and completeness of the report, but it raises broad issues we were aware of and are currently considering.</p><p>The Government takes the misuse of all UK business entities extremely seriously. This is why under the UK Presidency in 2013, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister secured agreement from the G7 countries to sign-up to ambitious proposals to tackle the abuse of companies and legal arrangements. Increasing transparency about who owns and controls UK companies is a vital step in creating an environment of trust and accountability.</p><p>From April 2016, UK companies and other entities will be required to create a register containing information of the people with significant control, including their name, month and year of birth, and service address. From June 2016, this information will be provided to a central register at Companies House and will be publically available.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 15/12/2015 11:28:40 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
	tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

436134

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	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, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on students of replacing maintenance grants with loans.
	tabling member constituency	Ashton-under-Lyne
	tabling member printed	Angela Rayner
	uin	19088
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government published an Equality Analysis on changes to student support on 3<sup>rd</sup> December. This can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482110/bis-15-639-student-finance-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482110/bis-15-639-student-finance-equality-analysis.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 14:49:02 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4356 label Biography information for Angela Rayner

435755

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	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	Research: Dundee
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what financial support the Government has provided for academic research in Dundee in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Dundee West
	tabling member printed	Chris Law
	uin	19032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Government provides financial support for academic research in Dundee through various routes, including funding from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ (BIS) Science &amp; Research budget for Research Council grants, research capital grants (allocated through Scottish Funding Council - SFC) and the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (RPIF). In addition the Scottish Government allocates funding via the SFC for recurrent research grant.</p><p>Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data includes information about research grant income earned by individual higher education institutions from higher education (HE) funding bodies, Research Councils and Government Departments. The SFC publish details of the BIS HE research capital funding. Details of the RPIF are published by HEFCE.</p><p>The research grant income earned by the University of Dundee and Abertay University from these sources in each academic year are listed in the table (figures in £000s). HESA data for 2014-15 are not yet available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SFC recurrent research funding</p></td><td><p>23,841</p></td><td><p>23,606</p></td><td><p>24,133</p></td><td><p>24,409</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Research Councils</p></td><td><p>20,734</p></td><td><p>22,203</p></td><td><p>15,260</p></td><td><p>22,387</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Government Funding</p></td><td><p>5,738</p></td><td><p>4,651</p></td><td><p>5,535</p></td><td><p>9,371</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BIS HE Research Capital</p></td><td><p>2,270</p></td><td><p>602</p></td><td><p>728</p></td><td><p>860</p></td><td><p>974</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td><p>52,583</p></td><td><p>51,062</p></td><td><p>45,656</p></td><td><p>57,027</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>In addition, the University of Dundee secured £11.7m from UK RPIF for expenditure over 2012-15.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 14:49:56 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	4403 label Biography information for Chris Law

434227

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2015
	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	British Students Abroad: Latin America
	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 UK students attend universities in Latin America.
	tabling member constituency	Beverley and Holderness
	tabling member printed	Graham Stuart
	uin	18793
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The UNESCO Institute of Statistics estimates for every country the number of outbound tertiary students studying in different regions of the world. Their most recent figures refer to 2013 and are published at the link: <a href="http://data.uis.unesco.org/" target="_blank">http://data.uis.unesco.org/</a></p><p>The estimated number of UK students attending universities in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2013 was 234.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 14:52:23 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart

436639

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2015
	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	Science: Finance
	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 the Government is taking to maintain current spending levels on the core elements of the science budget in real terms over the course of the Parliament.
	tabling member constituency	Foyle
	tabling member printed	Mark Durkan
	uin	19387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government made clear in the Spending Review its commitment to science and research. We will protect science resource funding in real terms from its current level of £4.7 billion per annum for the rest of the Parliament. Growth in the ring fence will be used to invest in a new £1.5 billion Global Challenges Research Fund for UK science to pioneer new ways of tackling global problems. As well as increasing resource spending for science, we are investing in new scientific infrastructure on a record scale, delivering on the £6.9 billion science capital commitment in our manifesto to provide the infrastructure and funding to keep the UK globally competitive.</p><p>The allocation of budgets to individual funding bodies, programmes and facilities has yet to be determined. As per previous spending rounds this allocation process will take place over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 14:52:40 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	1594 label Biography information for Mark Durkan

437131

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2015
	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	Higher Education: Disability
	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 is taking to ensure that the Independent Adjudicator can monitor the implementation by higher education institutions of provision for disabled students who do not have complex needs.
	tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
	tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
	uin	19505
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Higher education institutions have a legal duty under the Equality Act 2010 to provide reasonable adjustments for disabled students and to monitor their compliance with their Equality Act duties. The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011 require institutions to publish information as to their compliance with the general public sector equality duty.</p><p>Students who are dissatisfied with the provision of support, and raise their concerns through their institution’s formal complaints procedures, can then also take their case to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator. This is a free service for the student.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/12/2015 14:53:30 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman