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432616

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2015
	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: Grants
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consultation his Department carried out with (a) students and their representative bodies and (b) other people and bodies before announcing that university maintenance grants would be abolished.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	17803
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2015 answer text <br /> <br /><p>I refer the Hon Member to my reply to the hon Member for Newport West to question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-10-09/11271/" target="_blank">11271</a>.</p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 01/12/2015 15:23:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

428980

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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	Higher Education: Part-time Education
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which of the proposals in Higher education: teaching excellence, social mobility and student choice, published by his Department on 6 November 2015 are intended to enhance part-time higher education.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	16894
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2015 answer text <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>Proposals in the Green Paper, ‘Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’ will benefit both full-time and part-time higher education. Through the Teaching Excellence Framework all students will get better value for money and have more information about the courses they are applying for. Our proposals on social mobility and widening participation will apply to all students and creating a competitive, well regulated higher education system will benefit current and prospective part-time students as well as full-time.</p><br /><p>We have taken steps to support part-time students including introducing non-means tested fee loans and extending loans for those already holding a degree to students wishing to retrain in engineering, technology and computer science. We continue to examine what more we can do to support part-time and are engaging actively with the sector on this issue.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 23/11/2015 14:29:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

428978

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2015
	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: 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 steps he is taking to promote the availability of loans to part-time students.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	16892
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <br /><p><strong></strong></p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has developed marketing materials and information aimed at part time students and these are made available online and through schools and further education colleges as part of the annual Student Finance Tour. Since the new non-means tested part time fee loans were introduced in 2012 the number of students taking out loans has risen from 34,000 in 2012/13 to 55,000 in 2013/14.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 24/11/2015 15:58:16 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

426171

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: 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 plans he has to apply the freeze of the student loan repayment threshold on which his Department has recently consulted to the repayment of 24+ Advanced Learner Loans.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	14943
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>As set out in the consultation, because both higher education student loans and 24+ Advanced Learning Loans share a repayment threshold, the change will equally affect both groups of learners.</p><br /><p>The Spending Review announced that the Government has decided to implement a repayment threshold freeze for all borrowers with post-2012 (‘Plan 2’) loans. The repayment threshold will be £21,000 at April 2016, and it will not be uplifted until at least April 2021, when the threshold will be reviewed. This threshold remains higher in real terms than that of the loans taken out before 2012.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/12/2015 12:09:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

446218

	registered interest
	date	20/01/2016
	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	Skills Funding Agency: Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the National Apprenticeship Service will continue to be (a) administered and (b) funded through the Skills Funding Agency in 2016-17.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	23453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The National Apprenticeship Service is part of the Skills Funding Agency. We plan for this to continue to be the case in 2016-17.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 28/01/2016 17:16:22 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

426170

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	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: 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 (a) discussions he has had and (b) consultations he has undertaken with sector stakeholders on potential changes to earning repayment thresholds for 24+ Advanced Learner Loans.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	14944
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2015 answer text <br /><p>The consultation <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/freezing-the-student-loan-repayment-threshold" target="_blank">Freezing the student loan repayment threshold</a> covered both higher education student loans and 24+ Advanced Learning Loans. Stakeholders with an interest in 24+ Advanced Learning Loans were notified of the consultation when it was published.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 13/11/2015 14:18:11 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

437065

	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	Institute for Apprenticeships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what consultations he or officials in his Department have had with (a) further education college representatives, (b) further education providers and (c) sector skills councils about the structures on board composition of the proposed Institute for Apprenticeships announced in the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
	uin	19588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>The creation of the Institute for Apprenticeships has been informed by feedback from employers and employer groups such as the CBI, as well as organisations working alongside our employer-led trailblazers to develop new apprenticeship standards. This includes representatives of training providers and sector skills councils.</p><br /><p>The chair and board members of the Institute will be appointed though a public appointments process in 2016.</p><br /><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 15/12/2015 16:16:44 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

46385

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether the performance of the Pensions Regulator is assessed in relation to trends in (a) take-up of workplace pensions and (b) anticipated retirement income from current workplace pension accounts.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
	uin	194630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Pensions Regulator pursues five main objectives as set out in section 5 of the Pensions Act 2004. These objectives include the protection of benefits to the members of work-based pensions schemes. The Pensions Regulator's key performance indicators are designed to operate in support of its statutory objectives.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

46384

	registered interest
	date	01/04/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of trends in (a) take-up of workplace pensions and (b) anticipated retirement income from current workplace pension accounts.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
	uin	194629
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/04/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>a)</p><p> </p><p>Automatic enrolment is increasing the take-up of workplace pensions and will continue to do so as the reforms continue to be rolled out over the next few years. The latest figures from The Pensions Regulator show that over 3.2 million individuals have now been enrolled into a workplace pension as a result of the reforms.</p><p> </p><p>In 2013, 50 per cent of all employees were a member of a pension scheme, rising from 47 per cent in 2012. This was the first increase in participation since 2006 and represented the largest rise since records began in 1997. In particular, for the largest private sector companies (those with more than 5000 employees), 51 per cent of employees were members of a workplace pension scheme, up from 36 per cent in 2012. These figures were collected in April 2013 when automatic enrolment had been running for just 6 months.</p><p> </p><p>(b)</p><p> </p><p>Without automatic enrolment, median private pension income was expected to fall from around £3,900 a year in 2020 to around £2,200 a year in 2050. However, with automatic enrolment the median private pension income is expected to be around £3,600 by 2050.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 07/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

228247

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Work Programme: Blackpool
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of recipients of employment and support allowance referred to the Work Programme in (a) Blackpool South constituency and (b) Blackpool local authority area moved into sustained employment in (i) 2012, (ii) 2013, (iii) 2014 and (iv) 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
	tabling member printed	Mr Gordon Marsden
	uin	228267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The information showing the number of Work Programme Referrals, Job Outcomes and Sustainment Payments, up to December 2014, by various geographies can be found at:</p><p><a href="http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html" target="_blank">http://tabulation-tool.dwp.gov.uk/WorkProg/tabtool.html</a></p><p> </p><p>Guidance for users can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-tabulation-tool-guidance</a></p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 23/03/2015 17:12:59 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
	tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden