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<br /><p><del class="ministerial">The budget for the Tradeshow Access Programme was
£11.05M in 2014/15 and the estimated spend in 2015/16 is £10.25M.</del></p><p><del
class="ministerial">For 2016/17 and beyond, UKTI will be reviewing how the Tradeshow
Access Programme is aligned with other Export Services as part of the Comprehensive
Spending Review settlement. It is therefore not possible to confirm the budget at
this stage.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">I will respond positively to a request
for a meeting with the Sponsors Alliance subject to diary commitments.</del></p><br
/><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government published an Equality Analysis of the
impact of freezing the student loan repayment threshold on 25th November.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">All borrowers whose earnings
are above the repayment threshold will pay around £6 per week more (in nominal terms)
by 2020/21. Those individuals with the lowest lifetime earnings will be affected the
least, because they will either never earn above the earnings threshold, or will only
do so for a more limited period of the loan’s life.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"></ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">The full Equality Analysis is attached, but can also be found
at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf</a></ins></p>
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