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1146265

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Archaeology: High Speed 2 Line
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Transport on the number of qualified archaeologists required for the construction of High Speed Two.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	290565
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education meets his counterparts and officials from other government departments regularly to discuss the Department for Education agenda.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/10/2019 13:59:18 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1145876

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Plastics: Waste
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much of the Plastics and Waste Investment Fund has been allocated to date; and which programmes have received money from that fund.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	290831
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>This Government is building a globally competitive sustainable plastics industry through research and innovation. We have already allocated 95% of the funding available through the £20m Plastics Research and Innovation Fund. This includes £8m on academic research, £6m on collaborative R&amp;D, £3m on an Investor Partnership with Sky Ocean Ventures and almost £2m on a Circular Plastics flagship programme with WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Plan). WRAP is also administering a number of grant opportunities on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.</p><p> </p><p>As confirmed in July, BEIS will also provide up to £60 million, bolstered by an expected £149m investment from the private sector, to establish the UK as the world’s leading innovator in smart sustainable plastic packaging, through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/10/2019 13:38:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

1146259

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Archaeology: Graduates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students have graduated with archaeology-based degrees in each of the last ten years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	290562
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects and publishes statistics on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Institutions. Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2017/18. Statistics on qualifications obtained by subject areas are available in Table 19 of their Open Data pages:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-19</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of first-degree qualifiers from archaeology-based subjects has been provided in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Forensic &amp; Archaeological Sciences</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Archaeology</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Combined Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>1,710</p></td><td><p>905</p></td><td><p>2,615</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>1,710</p></td><td><p>880</p></td><td><p>2,590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>1,755</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>2,655</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>1,940</p></td><td><p>920</p></td><td><p>2,860</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>1,890</p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>2,790</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,920</p></td><td><p>905</p></td><td><p>2,825</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>1,570</p></td><td><p>750</p></td><td><p>2,320</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>1,640</p></td><td><p>870</p></td><td><p>2,510</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>1,645</p></td><td><p>815</p></td><td><p>2,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>1,650</p></td><td><p>830</p></td><td><p>2,480</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><ol><li>Counts are on the basis of full-person-equivalents. Where a student is studying more than one subject, they are apportioned between the subjects that make up their course.</li></ol><p> </p><ol start="2"><li>Qualifiers in archaeology-based subjects have been defined using the principal categories V4 and F4 of the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS), which are ‘Forensic and Archaeological Sciences’ and ‘Archaeology’. More information on JACS codes can be found at the following link: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs</a>.</li></ol> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/10/2019 11:49:46 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton