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1141754

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date	24/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Facilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve and upgrade NHS facilities in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	281589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2019 answer text <p>On 5 August 2019 the Prime Minister announced £854 million of new capital funding to provide upgrades to 20 hospitals across England. This is on top of the £2.4 billion capital investment awarded to over 150 sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) schemes across England since July 2017 to modernise and transform the National Health Service’s buildings and services.</p><p>Of the £854 million, £21.3 million has been awarded to United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust for the Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care at Pilgrim Hospital Boston scheme, which will improve patient flow in Boston by developing urgent and emergency care zones in accident and emergency. In December 2018, Lincolnshire also benefitted from United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s £1.5 million scheme for a Multi-Purpose Education Centre to support University Medical School of Excellence (Lincoln).</p><p>An additional £1 billion was also announced on 5 August to be spent this financial year, allowing existing upgrade programmes to proceed and tackle the most urgent infrastructure projects across the country.</p><p>My Rt. hon. Friend as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care recently set out, a new Health Infrastructure Plan will be brought forward to deliver a strategic major hospital rebuilding programme, providing the necessary health infrastructure across the country for the years to come.</p><p>NHS facilities in other parts of the United Kingdom are a matter for the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 04/09/2019 16:07:32 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1078545

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to publish the full guidance for part-time maintenance loans.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	226530
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education had forecast that 20,000 part-time maintenance loans would be issued for the 2018-19 academic year.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 2 of the publication, Student loan forecasts, England: 2017-18:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2019, the Student Loans Company (SLC) published early in-year data on the payments of maintenance loans to part-time students domiciled in England. At the end of December 2019, 2,700 students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 7F of the publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of part-time maintenance loans issued was lower than had been forecast at this point in the academic year cycle and the demand for a loan product aimed at part-time distance learners is therefore unlikely to be high enough to make the introduction of such a loan economically viable.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, I have decided not to extend maintenance loans to distance leaners in academic year 2019/20. The government remains committed to tackling the decline in part-time undergraduate higher education. In particular, the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding is considering how we can encourage learning that is more flexible, including part-time and distance learning. The review will report this year.</p><p> </p><p>The SCL will publish guidance relating to part-time maintenance in advance of the application process opening later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 226531 226532 question first answered 08/03/2019 14:53:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1078547

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when his Department plans to make distance-learning maintenance loans available.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	226531
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education had forecast that 20,000 part-time maintenance loans would be issued for the 2018-19 academic year.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 2 of the publication, Student loan forecasts, England: 2017-18:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2019, the Student Loans Company (SLC) published early in-year data on the payments of maintenance loans to part-time students domiciled in England. At the end of December 2019, 2,700 students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 7F of the publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of part-time maintenance loans issued was lower than had been forecast at this point in the academic year cycle and the demand for a loan product aimed at part-time distance learners is therefore unlikely to be high enough to make the introduction of such a loan economically viable.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, I have decided not to extend maintenance loans to distance leaners in academic year 2019/20. The government remains committed to tackling the decline in part-time undergraduate higher education. In particular, the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding is considering how we can encourage learning that is more flexible, including part-time and distance learning. The review will report this year.</p><p> </p><p>The SCL will publish guidance relating to part-time maintenance in advance of the application process opening later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 226530 226532 question first answered 08/03/2019 14:53:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1078548

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the take-up has been of part-time maintenance loans since that loan's inception.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	226532
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department for Education had forecast that 20,000 part-time maintenance loans would be issued for the 2018-19 academic year.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 2 of the publication, Student loan forecasts, England: 2017-18:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/720371/Student_loan_forecasts_2017-18_-_tables.xlsx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>In January 2019, the Student Loans Company (SLC) published early in-year data on the payments of maintenance loans to part-time students domiciled in England. At the end of December 2019, 2,700 students had been paid a part-time maintenance loan.</p><p> </p><p>Further information can be found in Table 7F of the publication:</p><p><a href="https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The number of part-time maintenance loans issued was lower than had been forecast at this point in the academic year cycle and the demand for a loan product aimed at part-time distance learners is therefore unlikely to be high enough to make the introduction of such a loan economically viable.</p><p> </p><p>In light of this, I have decided not to extend maintenance loans to distance leaners in academic year 2019/20. The government remains committed to tackling the decline in part-time undergraduate higher education. In particular, the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding is considering how we can encourage learning that is more flexible, including part-time and distance learning. The review will report this year.</p><p> </p><p>The SCL will publish guidance relating to part-time maintenance in advance of the application process opening later this year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 226530 226531 question first answered 08/03/2019 14:53:15 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1035233

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of university teaching staff come from working-class backgrounds.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	205189
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 11/01/2019 16:22:05 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1035239

registered interest
date	04/01/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the value for money of the average salary received by University Vice-Chancellors.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	205195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2019 answer text <p>Universities are autonomous institutions but they receive significant amounts of public funding, so they are subject to public scrutiny.‎</p><p> </p><p>The government has set up the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to regulate the higher education sector. Universities are now required to publish the justification for salaries of their Vice-Chancellors, and the OfS has powers to take action if universities do not do this.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 11/01/2019 16:27:26 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes