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516153

registered interest
date	27/04/2016
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	Business: 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 assessment his Department has made of the implementation of Shaping University Curricula to Critical Infrastructure Employer Needs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	35781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p>The Government actively encourages collaboration between universities and business to ensure course content meets the needs of employers, including those responsible for critical infrastructure. Higher Education Institutions, as autonomous bodies, are independent from the Government and are responsible for the implementation of SUCCEED.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/05/2016 10:51:04 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

425308

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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	Graduates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the number of graduates who are (a) unemployed and (b) not in high-skilled jobs.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	14436
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Department publishes labour market statistics for English domiciled graduates and postgraduates relative to non-graduates as part of the <em>Graduate Labour Market Statistics </em>series. The latest figures refer to the quarter from April to June 2015 and are available at the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-labour-market-statistics-april-to-june-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-labour-market-statistics-april-to-june-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/11/2015 17:23:32 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

425309

registered interest
date	02/11/2015
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: Suicide
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 his Department is taking to address rates of university students taking their own lives.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	14451
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government takes these issues seriously. Higher Education Institutions, as autonomous and independent bodies, have clear legal responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support their students, including those with mental health conditions.</p><p>Ensuring the wellbeing of students is important to our universities. Institutions are best placed to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students and to ensure mechanisms are in place to identify students in need.</p><p>There is a great deal of guidance and support available to institutions from a range of sector and medical bodies. In February 2015, Universities UK published a Good Practice Guide on, student mental wellbeing in higher education. It aims to support institutions in building and improving their provision for students with mental health problems including to help prevent suicide.</p><p>The Department of Health also published a cross-government suicide prevention strategy in September 2012, ‘Preventing Suicide in England.’ The objectives of the strategy are to reduce suicide and support people bereaved or affected by suicide.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 10/11/2015 17:24:39 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

419822

registered interest
date	09/10/2015
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 discussions he has had with student body organisations on the effects of removing student maintenance grants.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	11271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/10/2015 answer text <p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Ministers regularly meet stakeholders from across the Higher Education sector to inform policy development including on Higher Education student support.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/10/2015 16:14:09 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

416186

registered interest
date	04/09/2015
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	Technology
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what progress his Department has made on the eight great technologies programme.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	8621
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 7 July 2015 to the hon. Member for Streatham (Chuka Umunna) to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-07-01/5250/" target="_blank">5250</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 14/09/2015 13:30:24 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn