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433720

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Productivity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 30 November 2015 to Question 17311, what financial support his Department is providing for the Government's Productivity Plan; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Coventry South
tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
uin	18528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <br /> <br /><p>All Government Departments have a role in helping to raise productivity and foster a dynamic economy. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) holds many of the key productivity levers, including skills, innovation, competition and regulation. The bulk of BIS spending therefore supports the Productivity Plan. The table displays total BIS Departmental Expenditure Limits up to 2019/20, as set out in the Spending Review. Specifically with regard to research, the Government has committed to protect the science resource and capital budget in real terms during this Parliament.</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>2015-16</p></td><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>2019-20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total DEL (£bn)</p></td><td><p>16.6</p></td><td><p>16.5</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td><td><p>13.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479749/52229_Blue_Book_PU1865_Web_Accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479749/52229_Blue_Book_PU1865_Web_Accessible.pdf</a></p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2015 14:48:19 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

433723

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Institute for Apprenticeships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2015 to Question 18024, when he plans for the membership of the Institute for Apprenticeships to be announced.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	18486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <br /> <br /><p>The Chair and Board Members will be appointed through public appointments. The outcome will be announced as soon as the process allows in 2016.</p><br /> <br /> <br /> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 07/12/2015 14:40:04 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

433730

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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	Higher Education: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, whether access for disabled students will be included in measures to determine whether higher education institutions deliver effective outcomes for widening access and social mobility.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	18540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>Higher Education Institutions have clear responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support their students, including those with disabilities. <br></p><p>The Independent Office for Fair Access (OFFA) has agreed 183 Access Agreements for 2016/17 with plans for Universities to spend more than £745 million on measures to improve access and student success for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, up from £404m in 2009/10. HEIs choose their own access agreement measures and targets, in line with their own particular mission and challenges and these can include targets on disability where appropriate.</p><br /> <br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2015 14:43:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

433732

registered interest
date	02/12/2015
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: 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 estimate he has made of the number of student loan borrowers with post-2012 student loan arrangements in (a) Salford and Eccles constituency, (b) the City of Salford and (c) Greater Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Salford and Eccles
tabling member printed	Rebecca Long Bailey
uin	18575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student support for each of the UK Government Administrations. Information on English loan borrowers is published annually by SLC in the Statistical First Release ‘<em>Student Loans in England: FY 2014-15</em>’.</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx</a></p><br /><p>The numbers of borrowers at the end of the 2014-15 financial year with post-2012 student loan arrangements who had been domiciled in (a) Salford and Eccles constituency, (b) the City of Salford and (c) Greater Manchester when they applied for financial support is set out in the following table:</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Borrowers with post-2012 Loan Arrangements by Domicile (1)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Geographical Area</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Borrowers (2, 3)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salford and Eccles</p></td><td><p>3,240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>City of Salford</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Greater Manchester</p></td><td><p>53,970</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: Student Loans Company</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Notes:</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>(1) Borrowers with loans outstanding as of 31/03/2015</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>(2) Excludes Further Education students</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>(3) Figures rounded to the nearest multiple of 10</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 07/12/2015 14:45:53 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4396 label Biography information for Rebecca Long Bailey

433421

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Cleveland Potash: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will extend the support package for workers affected by the closure of Sahaviriya Steel Industries UK to people employed at Cleveland Potash.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	18310
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <br /><p>I refer the hon Member to the reply I gave on 30 November to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2015-11-13/16315/" target="_blank">16315</a> and in the debate in Westminster Hall on 2 December.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/12/2015 10:22:54 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop

433423

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Royal Mail
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what provision the Government made in the conditions of the sale of Royal Mail for suitable local alternatives to be provided in the event that local sorting or collection offices were closed.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	18348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on whether to close and re-locate local collection offices have always been operational matters for Royal Mail. The Government played no role in such decisions prior to the sale of Royal Mail.</p><p>Regardless of ownership, Royal Mail, as the United Kingdom’s designated universal service provider, is required to provide a universal postal service that meets the minimum requirements as set out under the Postal Services Act 2011.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the postal regulator, Ofcom, to ensure that Royal Mail provides sufficient access points to meet its universal postal service obligations.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18349 question first answered 07/12/2015 11:43:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

433424

registered interest
date	01/12/2015
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	Royal Mail
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 Government sought assurances from Royal Mail that local collection offices would not be closed after the sale of that company.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield Central
tabling member printed	Paul Blomfield
uin	18349
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions on whether to close and re-locate local collection offices have always been operational matters for Royal Mail. The Government played no role in such decisions prior to the sale of Royal Mail.</p><p>Regardless of ownership, Royal Mail, as the United Kingdom’s designated universal service provider, is required to provide a universal postal service that meets the minimum requirements as set out under the Postal Services Act 2011.</p><p>It is the responsibility of the postal regulator, Ofcom, to ensure that Royal Mail provides sufficient access points to meet its universal postal service obligations.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry grouped question UIN 18348 question first answered 07/12/2015 11:43:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4058 label Biography information for Paul Blomfield

433049

registered interest
date	30/11/2015
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	Innovate UK
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when Innovate UK will publish its strategy for 2016–20.
tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
uin	HL4009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>Innovate UK intends to publish its Strategy for 2016-20 in the spring. This will be followed by the publication of Innovate UK’s Delivery Plan for 2016-17. This timetable takes account of the timing of the recent Spending Review.</p><br /><p>X</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/12/2015 12:24:24 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

431532

registered interest
date	23/11/2015
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	Ethnic Groups: Employment
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are being taken to increase racial diversity in the workplace in the light of the Business in the Community report <i>Race at Work 2015</i>, which found that ethnic minority Britons are struggling against bias at work.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The Equality Act 2010 protects all individuals against racial and other forms of discrimination in the workplace. The Prime Minister has underlined the Government’s commitments to increasing racial diversity in the workplace in his 2020 Vision in which he made a commitment to increase BAME employment by 20% by 2020. Her Majesty’s Government welcomes the publication of the Race at Work report and will study its recommendations carefully,.</p><br /> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 07/12/2015 12:23:44 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick