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date	04/06/2014
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	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, if he will consider changing student loan payments from three termly instalments to monthly instalments; and what steps his Department has taken to help students learn to budget.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	198825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Government is not currently intending to change student loan payments from three termly instalments to monthly instalments. Payments of living costs support for full-time students in higher education at the start of each term give students the flexibility to meet up-front costs such as accommodation costs.</p><p> </p><p>Advice on effective budgeting is available through the BIS Student Finance Tour where recent graduates share their personal experience with prospective students on how to manage their living costs spending while at university. Around 120,000 prospective students attended the Tour in 2013, and the aim is to increase this number to 140,000 in 2014. Budgeting advice is also available through university student support services including the Money Doctors Initiative. Additional resources are available through the National Union of Students and the National Association of Student Money Advisers. <br></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 09/06/2014 15:43:44 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

47016

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 his Answer of 12 March 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on bananas, if he will hold discussions with the Competition and Markets Authority on the effect of supermarket pricing policies on banana farmers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	195363
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills maintains regular dialogue with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). If the CMA receives evidence that anti-competitive practices are having an adverse effect on the supply chain for bananas, the Department would consider discussing, as part of its ongoing communications with the CMA, the issues arising.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland

47017

registered interest
date	04/04/2014
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
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 12 March 2014, Official Report, column 220W, on bananas, what the evidential basis is for his statement that the grocery retail market is working well for UK consumers.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Greg Mulholland
uin	195378
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/04/2014 answer text <p>The most recent assessment by the Competition Commission of competition in the grocery retail sector (“The supply of groceries in the UK market investigation”, 2008) found that the sector generally worked well for UK consumers and that the main retailers were not exploiting dominant positions.</p><p> </p><p>If there is evidence of anti-competitive behaviour in the groceries retail sector, this should be sent to the Competition and Markets Authority.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 09/04/2014 12:00:00 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	1540 label Biography information for Greg Mulholland