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166539

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, when she plans to bring forward legislative proposals to permit civil partnerships by opposite sex couples.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	216335
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The report on the conclusions of the Civil Partnership Review (England and Wales) was published on 26 June 2014. Copies have been placed in the House Libraries.</p><p>A majority of respondents who expressed a view on them were opposed to each of the three main changes to civil partnership. There was therefore no united call for change from respondents to the consultation at this stage.</p><p>Of the over 10,000 online survey answers to each of the relevant questions:</p><p>• Less than a third of respondents supported abolition of civil partnership</p><p>• The majority were against closing civil partnership to new couples</p><p>• Over three-quarters were against opening up civil partnership to opposite sex couples.</p><p>Several important organisations thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnership – this should wait until we know the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples. Other organisations, in contrast, put forward a case for opening up civil partnerships to opposite sex couples now, for example because civil partnership and marriage were different relationships and couples should have equal access to both.</p><p>Given the lack of consensus on the way forward, the Government will not be making any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 216336 question first answered 02/12/2014 17:02:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

166606

	registered interest
	date	27/11/2014
	answering body	Women and Equalities
	answering dept id	31
	answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
	answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
	hansard heading	Civil Partnerships
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what steps she has taken following the consultation on extending civil partnerships to opposite sex couples; and what the findings of the consultation were.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	216336
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The report on the conclusions of the Civil Partnership Review (England and Wales) was published on 26 June 2014. Copies have been placed in the House Libraries.</p><p>A majority of respondents who expressed a view on them were opposed to each of the three main changes to civil partnership. There was therefore no united call for change from respondents to the consultation at this stage.</p><p>Of the over 10,000 online survey answers to each of the relevant questions:</p><p>• Less than a third of respondents supported abolition of civil partnership</p><p>• The majority were against closing civil partnership to new couples</p><p>• Over three-quarters were against opening up civil partnership to opposite sex couples.</p><p>Several important organisations thought it was too soon to consider making changes to civil partnership – this should wait until we know the impact of extending marriage to same sex couples. Other organisations, in contrast, put forward a case for opening up civil partnerships to opposite sex couples now, for example because civil partnership and marriage were different relationships and couples should have equal access to both.</p><p>Given the lack of consensus on the way forward, the Government will not be making any changes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 216335 question first answered 02/12/2014 17:02:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

227696

	registered interest
	date	17/03/2015
	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	Adult 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 estimate he has made of the level of funding his Department will provide to further education colleges for the provision of adult education in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	227789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2015 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total budget for post 19 Further Education for 2015/16 is £3,741,472,000.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We do not have any budgets beyond 2015-16 as these will be agreed in the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 20/03/2015 13:58:46 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

391719

	registered interest
	date	21/07/2015
	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	Care Homes: Living Wage
	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 the introduction of the National Living Wage on charitable residential care homes who do not benefit from the reduction in corporation tax rates.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	8140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2015 answer text <p>The National Living Wage supports the UK in moving from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are working with employers in the social care sector, including care providers from the voluntary sector, to understand how the introduction of the National Living Wage will affect them.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 07/09/2015 13:13:46 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton