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101013

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether he has sought views from individual disabled pupils about the impact of proposed changes to disabled students allowance.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>A wide range of stakeholders – including disabled students – were consulted and helped inform the proposed changes to disabled students allowance.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 11:58:43 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101015

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what criteria his Department used to determine which bodies should be consulted over proposed changes to disabled students allowance.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government engaged with stakeholders extensively over the summer, including Higher Education Institutes, National Union of Students, Universities UK, disability groups and assessment centres. We also received a number of letters and evidence from stakeholders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 14:10:21 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101016

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Students: Disability
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of the funding given to high education institutions to recruit and support disabled children.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Higher education institutions are autonomous and independent bodies. They are responsible for meeting their legal obligation to promote disability equality and make reasonable adjustments for disabled people under the Disability Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government’s funding reforms are providing significant and rising income to institutions to perform all of their duties, including those relating to disability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 212002 question first answered 04/11/2014 11:22:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101017

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Students: Disability
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 appeals have been (a) made to and (b) upheld by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator by disabled pupils about a failure by a higher education institution to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education does not publish this data.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 14:19:24 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

101020

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Research Councils: 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 assessment he has made of the effect on gender diversity in research of the process by which the Research Councils award grants.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	212005
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Research Councils routinely collect data on board and committee membership, application and success rates by gender and age and this is routinely reviewed. This shows that female membership of Councils, Boards and Committees increased between 2010/11 and 2012/13 with some variation between councils.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The dataset is available at <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/skills/GenderapplicantsAwardsNumber.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/RCUK-prod/assets/documents/skills/GenderapplicantsAwardsNumber.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 16:43:50 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 25401 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

101240

registered interest
date	27/10/2014
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	Higher Education: Disability
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 funding that higher education institutions receive to recruit and support disabled students is ring-fenced for that purpose.
tabling member constituency	Stretford and Urmston
tabling member printed	Kate Green
uin	212002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Higher education institutions are autonomous and independent bodies. They are responsible for meeting their legal obligation to promote disability equality and make reasonable adjustments for disabled people under the Disability Act 2010.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government’s funding reforms are providing significant and rising income to institutions to perform all of their duties, including those relating to disability.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 212025 question first answered 04/11/2014 11:22:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4120 label Biography information for Kate Green

100847

registered interest
date	24/10/2014
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	Technology: Urban Areas
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 with the Smart Cities programme; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	211921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>The Government encourages UK cities to take up innovative initiatives and adopt modern technology to respond to developing urban needs.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has set up the Smart Cities Forum to bring together cities, industry and experts to identify and explore emerging policy issues. In order to benefit from the experiences of other Governments and European cities, the Government is a partner in a commitment within the European Innovation Partnership to share best practice.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Future Cities Catapult has been established as a Centre of Excellence and works to develop and support urban innovation. Projects in Glasgow, London, Bristol and Peterborough have been funded by Innovate UK to demonstrate and display smart applications to improve city services and quality of life.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>To ensure readiness to future developments, the Government Office for Science is undertaking the Foresight Future of Cities project, which explores opportunities and challenges facing UK cities over the next 50 years.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 16:38:44 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 25067 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

100292

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the deadline was for submitting evidence for the equality analysis of proposed changes to disabled student's allowance; and how awareness of that deadline was disseminated.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	211562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government invited interested parties to submit evidence as part of its programme of consultation during the summer.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 30/10/2014 15:49:22 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

100298

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what representations he has received calling for a public consultation on proposed changes to disabled students' allowance.
tabling member constituency	Poplar and Limehouse
tabling member printed	Jim Fitzpatrick
uin	211565
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2014 answer text <p>Over the summer Ministers and officials undertook extensive discussions with a wide range of stakeholders regarding changes to DSA.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 04/11/2014 15:37:59 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	197 label Biography information for Jim Fitzpatrick

100302

registered interest
date	22/10/2014
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	Students: Disability
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 support offered to potential university students with a disability to ensure that they are able to access support in undertaking their studies.
tabling member constituency	Huddersfield
tabling member printed	Mr Barry Sheerman
uin	211519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Discussions are underway with the higher education sector to ensure institutions are ready to meet their legal duties under the Equality Act 2010 in respect of the changes for 2015/16 and 2016/17. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is currently undertaking a review of provision and support for disabled students in higher education which will help to inform this.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 30/10/2014 15:26:51 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	411 label Biography information for Mr Barry Sheerman