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177840

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date	04/02/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Energy: Debts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what steps he is taking to ensure that Ofgem ensures that consumers in debt to their energy provider are made aware by those providers of the full range of repayment plans available to them.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	223445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Through conditions in the supply licence enforced by Ofgem, energy suppliers must offer domestic consumers in debt with their energy bills:</p><p> </p><ul><li>A means by which payments are deducted at source from a social security benefit received by the customer;</li><li>A weekly or fortnightly repayment plan. Suppliers must also take a customer’s ability to repay into account when setting a repayment schedule;</li><li>To install a prepayment meter, where it is safe and reasonably practicable to do so. Again suppliers must take a customer’s ability to repay into account when setting a repayment schedule.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Ofgem monitors suppliers’ behaviour and if they do not comply with these conditions then Ofgem can take enforcement action. For example, British Gas improved its debt recovery procedures following the launch by Ofgem of an investigation into the company’s compliance of SLC 27.8 in 2011.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 13:36:00 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

78420

registered interest
date	16/07/2014
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	Training: Young People
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 traineeships completed to date have lasted six weeks or less.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	206127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>In the June Statistical First Release we published data showing that there were 7,400 Traineeships starts between August 2013 and April 2014 – the first nine months of the programme. We do not yet have reliable data to break this down further.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further information on Traineeships data is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324016/traineeship-data-note-june14.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/324016/traineeship-data-note-june14.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 21/07/2014 16:53:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 11717 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

76738

registered interest
date	09/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	16-19 Bursary Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people (a) applied and (b) were approved under the 16 to 19 bursary scheme for higher education in each year since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	204854
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>The 16 to 19 bursary scheme provides extra financial help for students who need support in order to stay in further education.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/07/2014 16:37:43 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

66027

registered interest
date	07/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Sixth Form Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of an increase in the numbers of young people at school age on funding for provision for 16-18 year olds in each year of the next Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	204208
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2014 answer text <p>Funding for provision for 16- to 19-year-olds in the next Parliament will be subject to the next spending round.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/07/2014 14:44:19 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali