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532389

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
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	New Businesses: Females
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 women started businesses in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency, (b) the Liverpool City Region and (c) England in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	41774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not hold this data.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 11/07/2016 14:12:44 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry previous answer version 6231 answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

532390

registered interest
date	04/07/2016
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	Business: Females
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support his Department provides to female entrepreneurs in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency, (b) the Liverpool City Region and (c) England.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	41776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>We are working to ensure we have the right business support for everyone, including women, to set up and grow a business. Start-Up Loans provide funding and intensive support to new entrepreneurs (39% of Start‑Up Loans have been awarded to women).</p><p> </p><p>There are 39 Growth Hubs across England and the Government has provided funding to Liverpool City Region to support development of a business growth hub that provides support to help businesses start-up and grow. The Business Support Helpline also provides information and guidance to people across England - 45% of users in the last year (April 2015-16) were women. In 2015 the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute ranked the UK as the best country in Europe for female entrepreneurs.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 07/07/2016 15:11:00 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

458185

registered interest
date	07/03/2016
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: Mental Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what support is available for people responsible for developing mental wellbeing and related policy, procedure and practice within higher education institutions.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	30125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>The Government takes these issues seriously. Higher Education Institutions, as autonomous and independent bodies, have clear legal responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support their students, including those with mental health conditions. <br></p><p>Ensuring the wellbeing of students is important to our universities. Institutions are best placed to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students and to ensure mechanisms are in place to identify students in need.</p><p> </p><p>New guidance from BIS to the Director of Fair Access published on 11 February, asks him to focus on addressing a range of gaps in the access, retention and outcomes for students, including providing more help for those with mental health needs, through Access Agreements agreed with universities.</p><p> </p><p>There is a great deal of guidance and support available to institutions from a range of sector and medical bodies. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2015" target="_blank">February 2015</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities_UK" target="_blank">Universities UK</a> published a Good Practice Guide on student mental wellbeing in higher education. It aims to support institutions in building and improving their provision for students</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 15:03:36 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

447682

registered interest
date	26/01/2016
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	Apprentices: Mental Illness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what guidance his Department provides to employers on supporting young apprentices with mental health conditions.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	24147
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>Employers must fulfil their duties as set out in the Equality Act 2010 for apprentices as they would for other employees.</p><p> </p><p>Under the Equality Act (2010), employers have a duty to make reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities (including mental health impairment) in order to ensure that they have the same access to everything that involves gaining or keeping employment as a non-disabled person.</p><p> </p><p>Advice is also available to help employers and training providers understand disabilities and how to better support disabled apprentices. We have funded NIACE to produce an employer toolkit <a href="http://www.employer-toolkit.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.employer-toolkit.org.uk/</a> for employers who want to develop a more inclusive and accessible apprenticeship offer.</p><p>An Apprenticeships Equality and Diversity Advisory group helps government understand and address any apprenticeship equality and diversity issues in order to reduce barriers and make apprenticeships as inclusive as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/02/2016 17:54:20 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

445139

registered interest
date	15/01/2016
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	New Businesses: 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 criteria his Department uses to determine who receives Start-Up Loans; and what processes are in place to ensure that people with mental health problems have their applications considered fairly.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	22726
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2016 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>The Start-Up Loans programme provides loans and mentoring support to enable entrepreneurs aged 18 and over from all parts of society and based in the UK to start a business. So far, over 34,300 entrepreneurs have received support from the programme, which in turn has facilitated over £187 million worth of lending to date.</p><br /><p>The programme operates through a network of Delivery Partners, who make individual lending decisions based on criteria set by the Start-Up Loans Company. Delivery Partners are required to be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority. A condition of this authorisation is that they adhere to the FCA’s Treating Customers Fairly principles, which include reference to the treatment of customers with mental health issues.</p><p>A full list of principles is available on the FCA’s website</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 25/01/2016 16:01:41 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

443826

registered interest
date	11/01/2016
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	New Businesses: 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 processes are in place to ensure that people with mental health problems have applications for start-up loans considered fairly.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	21932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>The Start-Up Loans programme provides loans and mentoring support to enable entrepreneurs aged 18 and over from all parts of society and based in the UK to start a business. So far, over 34,300 entrepreneurs have received support from the programme, which in turn has facilitated over £187 million worth of lending to date.</p><br /><p>The programme operates through a network of Delivery Partners, who make individual lending decisions based on criteria set by the Start-Up Loans Company. Delivery Partners are required to adhere to Financial Conduct Authority Regulations on Treating Customers Fairly which include reference to the treatment of customers with mental health issues.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 18/01/2016 16:13:20 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

438558

registered interest
date	15/12/2015
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	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of medical students in England and Wales are white men from a working class background.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	20195
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <br /><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). HESA does not collect information on whether students come specifically from a working-class background, nor does it have a definition of the term working-class.</p><br /><p>Information on the ethnicity and socio-economic classification of young entrants (those aged less than 21 years old) to medicine subjects at English and Welsh Higher Education Institutions in the academic year 2013/14 is provided in the table. Information on older entrants by socioeconomic background is not available.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="10" rowspan="2"><p><strong>Full-Person Equivalent (FPE)(1) young entrants(2) studying Medicine(3) by Sex, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Classification (SEC)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>English and Welsh Higher Education Institutions</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Academic Year 2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Male</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Female</p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td><td><p>White</p></td><td><p>Other</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Higher managerial &amp; professional occupations</p></td><td><p>550</p></td><td><p>330</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>650</p></td><td><p>335</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>1200</p></td><td><p>665</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lower managerial &amp; professional occupations</p></td><td><p>290</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>390</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>680</p></td><td><p>285</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Intermediate occupations</p></td><td><p>120</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>125</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>245</p></td><td><p>140</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Small employers &amp; own account workers</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>55</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lower supervisory &amp; technical occupations</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>65</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Semi-routine occupations</p></td><td><p>35</p></td><td><p>50</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>70</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>105</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Routine occupations</p></td><td><p>10</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>25</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Never worked &amp; long-term unemployed</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not classified</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>375</p></td><td><p>265</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1255</p></td><td><p>800</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>1545</p></td><td><p>865</p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>2800</p></td><td><p>1665</p></td><td><p>50</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" rowspan="2"><p>Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded up or down to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" rowspan="2"><p>(1) Counts in the table refer to Full Person Equivalents (FPEs). FPEs are derived by splitting student instances between the different subjects that make up their course aim.</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(2) Young entrants are defined as those younger than 21 years old at August 31st of their first academic year</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><p>(3) Subject information is defined using the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS2). Medical Subjects were defined as those in JACS Codes A0, A1, A3 and A9</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 06/01/2016 17:15:51 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

431577

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	Universities: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what safeguards his Department is putting in place to ensure the quality of university specialist mental health mentoring provision when the new single quote system is introduced.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	17399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have clear responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support students, including those with mental health conditions. It is for the HEI to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students.</p><br /><p>In addition, Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) are available to meet the additional costs of study-related support needs, where the needs of the student cannot be met by the institution by way of a reasonable adjustment.</p><br /><p>A new quality assurance framework is being developed for support that is funded by DSAs, so as to provide assurance on both quality and financial matters. The quality assurance framework will be in place in 2016. All support workers will be required to meet quality standards in order to be funded through DSAs. Discussions with stakeholders regarding new mechanisms for the selection of non-medical help support providers are already underway.</p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 17400 17401 17402 question first answered 30/11/2015 16:55:34 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

431578

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	Universities: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what analysis his Department has undertaken to assess the effect of the proposed changes on the standard of support from university specialist mental health mentoring provision and the effect this could have on at-risk students.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	17400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have clear responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support students, including those with mental health conditions. It is for the HEI to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students.</p><br /><p>In addition, Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) are available to meet the additional costs of study-related support needs, where the needs of the student cannot be met by the institution by way of a reasonable adjustment.</p><br /><p>A new quality assurance framework is being developed for support that is funded by DSAs, so as to provide assurance on both quality and financial matters. The quality assurance framework will be in place in 2016. All support workers will be required to meet quality standards in order to be funded through DSAs. Discussions with stakeholders regarding new mechanisms for the selection of non-medical help support providers are already underway.</p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 17399 17401 17402 question first answered 30/11/2015 16:55:34 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

431579

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	Universities: Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what public consultation has taken place with whom in preparation for the introduction of the two-quote system for university specialist mental health mentoring provision.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
uin	17401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have clear responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010 to support students, including those with mental health conditions. It is for the HEI to determine what welfare and counselling services they need to provide to their students.</p><br /><p>In addition, Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) are available to meet the additional costs of study-related support needs, where the needs of the student cannot be met by the institution by way of a reasonable adjustment.</p><br /><p>A new quality assurance framework is being developed for support that is funded by DSAs, so as to provide assurance on both quality and financial matters. The quality assurance framework will be in place in 2016. All support workers will be required to meet quality standards in order to be funded through DSAs. Discussions with stakeholders regarding new mechanisms for the selection of non-medical help support providers are already underway.</p><br /> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 17399 17400 17402 question first answered 30/11/2015 16:55:34 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger