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78335

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	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 steps he is taking to increase opportunities for university leavers and to ensure that university leavers in all regions and constituent parts of the UK benefit from his efforts.
tabling member constituency	Belfast North
tabling member printed	Mr Nigel Dodds
uin	206222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government is rebuilding, rebalancing and growing the economy to ensure that all university leavers in all parts of the country are given the opportunity to achieve their potential.</p><p>The economic plan is working, with over two million more private sector jobs and 400,000 more businesses.</p><p>To enable students to take advantage of these opportunities we are increasing the information available to them through the Key Information Set. This provides comparable information on over 37,000 undergraduate courses at universities and colleges across the country.</p><p>Our Graduate Talent Pool programme has played a valuable role in stimulating the UK graduate internship market, helping graduates to gain relevant work experience and improving their employment prospects.</p><p>Latest data, from the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education survey, show that these policies are working. 88% of full-time first degree leavers who graduated from UK universities in 2012/13 were in employment or further study 6 months after graduation.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 01/09/2014 16:04:19 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1388 label Biography information for Lord Dodds of Duncairn

78338

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	Regional Growth Fund
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 winning bidders under the Regional Growth Fund in each (a) bidding round and (b) region have withdrawn to date.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	206268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>A full breakdown of the number of withdrawn awards by Round and Region is included in the table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>Round 1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Round 2</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Round 3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Round 4</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Round 5</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>10</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>East of England</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nationwide</strong></p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North East</strong></p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p><strong>34</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>North West</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p><strong>24</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South East</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p><strong>9</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>South West</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>7</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>West Midlands</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Yorkshire and The Humber</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p><strong>13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Grand Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>38</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>30</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>26</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>3</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>116</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/09/2014 13:42:00 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

78356

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	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what his policy is on privatising part or all of the Student Loan book before May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Ann McKechin
uin	206295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>This Government has sold £160 million of mortgage-style student loans on the condition that no terms of the loans can be changed. This follows the previous government’s record of selling £2 billion of mortgage-style student loans. At Autumn Statement 2013 the government committed to selling the pre-Browne Income Contingent Student Loan Book in a number of tranches, with a first sale intended to occur by the end of financial year 2015/16. There are no plans to conduct a sale during this parliament.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 22/07/2014 13:20:28 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 11768 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1419 label Biography information for Ann McKechin

78438

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	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if she will take steps to increase maintenance loans for university accommodation in respect of (a) students in places with expensive accommodation costs and (b) other students.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	206377
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/09/2014 answer text <p>The Government announced an increase of 3.34% to maximum maintenance loans for the 2015/16 academic year earlier this year. This increase will apply to all rates of maintenance loan, including the higher rate loan for students living away from home and studying in London, where living costs (including those for accommodation) are generally higher.</p><p>Decisions on student support arrangements for higher education courses are taken on an annual basis. The Government will review student support arrangements for the 2016/17 academic year in 2015.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/09/2014 12:45:23 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham