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600491

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date	12/10/2016
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government from which organisations they receive open source intelligence, in addition to that provided by the BBC monitoring service.
tabling member printed	Lord Campbell of Pittenweem
uin	HL2244
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in common with other Government departments, receives a wide range of free and paid-for open source information. FCO Staff have, for example, access to books (electronic and hard copy), news and social media, subscription services for journals and academia, and output from think tanks and research organisations.</p> answering member printed Baroness Anelay of St Johns question first answered 27/10/2016 16:19:50 answering member 3474 label Biography information for Baroness Anelay of St Johns
tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

600514

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of changes to departmental responsibility for the Disabled Students Allowance, where the minimum standards for disability adjustment that Higher Education Institutions must undertake are published.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL2267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>As independent, autonomous bodies, higher education institutions are responsible for ensuring they comply with the Equality Act 2010’s provisions in respect of disabled students.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on the Act’s requirements is available from the Equality and Human Rights Commission; and guidance on managing reasonable adjustments in higher education under the Act is available from the Equality Challenge Unit.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 27/10/2016 11:49:56 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

600515

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Higher Education: Disability
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent changes to the Disabled Students Allowance, what guidance has been issued to the Higher Education sector on the provision of support for disabled students.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL2268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>Student Finance England issued guidance on Disabled Students’ Allowances for the academic year 2016/17 in February 2016.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has been working with the Higher Education sector to develop guidance on good practice in inclusive provision for disabled students, which will be issued shortly.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 27/10/2016 11:50:18 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

600796

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Apprentices: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) childcare support is offered to young women who work as apprentices in the (i) engineering, (ii) manufacturing, (iii) hospitality, (iv) IT, (v) transport and (vi) science sectors.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
uin	48284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>An apprenticeship is a paid job. As an apprentice, an individual can acquire skills much-valued in the labour market without having to contribute to the costs of their learning. The benefits system treats an apprentice in the same way as any other employee regardless of the sector they are working in. As an employee aged 18 or over, an apprentice may be entitled to the usual in-work benefits, such as Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credits.</p><p>If an apprentice has children, or is aged 16 or over and does paid work of at least 16 hours a week, they could qualify for tax credits, unless they are already earning £25,000 or more per year. Further information can be found on the tax credit section of the HMRC website.</p><p>The Apprentice National Minimum Wage applies equally to all apprentices regardless of gender. Most apprentices receive more than the apprentice minimum rate of £3.40 per hour. The latest Apprenticeship Pay Survey (2014) estimates that the median hourly pay for Level 2 and Level 3 female apprentices across Great Britain is £6.36. For males it was £6.19. Differences in pay may be related to the proportion of males and females in higher and lower paid apprenticeship occupations.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 27/10/2016 14:11:10 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

600800

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Blaydon of 19 August 2016 on the application of the Apprenticeship Levy in Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Blaydon
tabling member printed	Mr David Anderson
uin	48469
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The hon. Member should have received an email response on 14 October, with a hard copy to follow.</p><p> </p><p>Skills policy is devolved, which means that the Scottish Government is responsible for managing apprenticeships in its own territory. This has been the case since the Scotland Act 1998 and UK employers understand that they need to engage with different funding bodies in different parts of the UK. The introduction of the apprenticeship levy in April 2017 will not change this position.</p><p> </p><p>On 12 August, we published detailed proposals on how we will fund apprenticeships in England when the levy is introduced in April 2017. These are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/apprenticeship-changes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/apprenticeship-changes</a>. We are committed to publishing the final apprenticeship funding policy information for England before the end of October. It will be for the Scottish Government to set out its own plans for funding apprenticeships in Scotland.</p><p><strong><br> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 27/10/2016 14:13:06 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
tabling member	1486 label Biography information for Mr David Anderson

600801

registered interest
date	12/10/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Electricity: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of proposed increases to electricity network costs on manufacturers.
tabling member constituency	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
tabling member printed	Tom Blenkinsop
uin	48454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government published in November 2014, an estimate of the projected electricity networks costs for households and small, medium and large businesses users, in Annex D of the <em>‘Estimated impacts of energy and climate change policies on energy prices and bills’.</em> These estimates reflect the eight year price control settlements that run from 2013 to 2021 (electricity transmission) and 2015 to 2023 (electricity distribution), as approved by the regulator, Ofgem.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384404/Prices__Bills_report_2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/384404/Prices__Bills_report_2014.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 27/10/2016 13:14:26 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4037 label Biography information for Tom Blenkinsop