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date	10/10/2014
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	Entry Clearances: Overseas Students
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 effects of the reduction in international student visas issued to students from Pakistan and India from 2013 to 2014 on the higher education sector and the wider economy.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	210014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2014 answer text <p>Government departments, the British Council and the higher education sector are working together to ensure prospective overseas students understand all the benefits which the present visa rules offer them, including the current visa opportunities for working in the UK after they graduate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>India in particular remains a priority country for greater engagement as evidenced by my Rt. Hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister’s recent visit; my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills’ recent visit; and my planned visit in November.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 20/10/2014 13:15:28 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

92445

registered interest
date	10/10/2014
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	Timber
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 prosecutions the National Measurement Office have brought for offences relating to illegally felled timber in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Basingstoke
tabling member printed	Maria Miller
uin	210035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>This is a matter for the National Measurement Office.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 27/10/2014 12:08:36 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark attachment 1 file name Response to Maria Miller PQ 2014 22680.pdf title National Measurement Office response.
tabling member	1480 label Biography information for Dame Maria Miller