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346765

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Clothing: Fire Hazards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to regulate the sale of flammable fancy dress clothing.
tabling member printed	Lord Trefgarne
uin	HL3
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>Fancy dress clothing for Children is already specifically regulated for flammability under the Toys Safety Directive, as a part of standard BSEN71-2. Department for Business officials will meet with a range of interested parties to discuss their concerns. We will also work with Trading Standards to investigate compliance with current fancy dress safety regulation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/06/2015 11:19:13 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	1813 label Biography information for Lord Trefgarne

346787

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Training
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of how much training away from the workplace has been provided by employers over the last 20 years.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL25
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The government does not undertake formal assessments of training in the workplace. The Office of National Statistics publishes the quarterly Labour Force Survey and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills also publishes relevant information on this area.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 04/06/2015 15:55:59 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

346788

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Mature Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total amount of funding paid out under the 24+ Advanced Learning Loans programme in (1) 2013–14, and (2) the first six months of 2014–15.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL26
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The most recent Student Loans Company report published on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2015 regarding payments made to Further Education providers on behalf of loans-funded learners shows that during the 2013/14 academic year £115.8m was paid out, and in the first six months of the 2014/15 academic year £65m has been paid.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full report is available through the following link :</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-further-education.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-further-education.aspx</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/06/2015 13:19:20 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe attachment 1 file name Advanced Learning Loans.pdf title Advanced Learning Loans
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

346789

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Mature Students: Loans
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what resource accounting and budgeting charge they are currently using to estimate the long-term cost of the 24+ Advanced Learning Loans programme.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL27
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department models the proportion of loans which we expect not to be repaid - the resource accounting and budgeting charge (RAB charge). The RAB charge is estimated to be 50% of the total loan amount. BIS is collecting data on learners as it emerges. On the basis of this data we regularly review and update the RAB charge estimates.</p><p> </p><p>We publish the RAB charge once a year in the Department’s accounts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 04/06/2015 16:04:15 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

346790

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many undergraduate places were funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England under the Employer Engagement Co-funded Students scheme for employer co-funded additional student numbers in each of the years during which the scheme operated, and at what percentage rates; and what was the total cost of the scheme, including expenditure over and above direct full-time equivalent funding for each student.
tabling member printed	Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
uin	HL28
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2015 answer text <p>Information on the number of recruited undergraduates through the scheme is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Academic Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Recruited undergraduate full-time equivalent students</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total grant after adjustments (all levels of study)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006/07</p></td><td><p>171</p></td><td><p>£557,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007/08</p></td><td><p>872</p></td><td><p>£2,666,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>3,155</p></td><td><p>£10,120,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>6,349</p></td><td><p>£18,530,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,179</p></td><td><p>£28,998,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>14,020</p></td><td><p>£32,484,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>3,542</p></td><td><p>£7,935,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>1,019</p></td><td><p>£2,359,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>248</p></td><td><p>£582,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>40,556</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£104,231,000</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The total grant over the period 2006/07 to 2014/15 was £104million. In addition to the grant after adjustments, £101 million development funding was spent on the scheme between 2006/07 and 2011/12.</p><p> </p><p>Employer contributions are only available for the period 2007/08 to 2010/11 and show that the average rate of co-founding from employers increased from 26% in 2007/08 to 41% in 2010/11.</p><p> </p><p>Note: Employer contributions are a mix of cash and in-kind, and are sourced from both public and private sector employers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/06/2015 11:21:39 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4347 label Biography information for Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

346805

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Stem Cells
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Drayson on 19 May 2009 (WA 290), Baroness Wilcox on 3 October 2011 (WA 114–5), Baroness Garden of Frognal on 5 November 2012 (WA 168) and Lord Marland on 4 December 2012 (WA 131), whether the journal article "detailing further findings on the therapeutic potential and efficiency" of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) still remains unpublished following the end of Professor Mary Herbert’s research study; if so, what are the reasons for the apparent lack of progress; if not, when they advised that the article had been published; how the derivation of embryonic stem cells (ESC) following nuclear transfer as described in the article has improved on the efficiency of ESC derivation from clones as previously described by others in 2013 in the journal Cell (Volume 153, Issue 6, pages 1228–38) and the journal Cell Stem Cell (Volume 14, Issue 6, pages 777–80); and what were the novel "technological advances" described by Professor Herbert "to improve the efficiency of SCNT in human oocytes" and thus "develop a reproducible method of generating human embryonic stem cells".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL43
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The journal article referred to in Lord Marland’s response of 4th December 2012 has been published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports. The relevant paper (<em>Therapeutic potential of somatic cell nuclear transfer for degenerative disease caused by mitochondrial DNA mutations, Greggains Gareth D (2014), Scientific Reports 4, Article number: 3844 doi:10.1038/srep03844) </em>can be viewed at: http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140124/srep03844/full/srep03844.html</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/06/2015 11:54:04 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

346806

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Stem Cells
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Drayson on 19 May 2009 (WA 290), to what extent the stated aim to "develop a reproducible method of generating human embryonic stem cells following the transfer of the nucleus of an adult somatic cell into an oocyte" was achieved following the end of Professor Mary Herbert’s research study; and when a sample of the stem cell lines derived following nuclear transfer was deposited in the United Kingdom Stem Cell Bank.
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL44
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The findings of the Medical Research Council (MRC) funded grant to the University of Newcastle, Improving the Efficiency of Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), are described in the research publications listed on the RCUK Gateway to Research. It can be found at http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/AB211BD5-0A06-4819-ABD3-A29097543302</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The work was also presented at a workshop on SCNT convened in San Francisco by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the MRC in June 2010. The workshop report was published on the MRC website and discussions are described in the paper Finding the niche for human somatic cell nuclear transfer: Grieshammer et al 2011, Nat. Biotech: 29.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The project included an undertaking that any embryonic stem cell lines that were derived during the project would be deposited in the UK Stem Cell Bank in accordance with the investigators HFEA license. However, derivation of ESC lines was not a primary aim of the project. No lines were derived and therefore none have been deposited.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/06/2015 11:20:11 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

346877

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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 make it his policy that the arbitration mechanism to be included in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will not be carried out by a for-profit company.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The detail of the arbitration mechanisms contained in the EU-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will be the result of on-going negotiations between the EU and the US.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Any arbitration conducted under the EU-US FTA would involve a fair and transparent procedure, with a range of public and private sector participants including, EU and Member States, investors and arbitrators, with all parties to the dispute able to appoint their own lawyers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Arbitration proceedings under an international investment treaty are typically carried out on an ad hoc basis, with the tribunal constituted solely for the purpose of resolving a single dispute. The costs of the arbitration are apportioned according to the arbitrators’ findings. Disputing parties may rely upon an international institution, such as the World Bank or the United Nations to provide the procedural rules for the tribunal. These services are provided on a non-profit basis.</p><p> </p><p /> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 04/06/2015 13:13:29 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

346932

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Employment Tribunals Service: Fines
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 financial penalties have been imposed on respondent employers under section 16 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 to date; and how many such penalties (a) have been paid and (b) remain unpaid.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Financial Penalties for aggravated breach of employment law, under section 16 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, were introduced on 6 April 2014. Financial penalties are intended to be used in exceptional circumstances where employers have deliberately flouted the law, and whose behaviour is malicious or negligent.</p><p> </p><p>Three have been imposed to date. One has been paid. The other two are currently unpaid.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 08/06/2015 16:41:43 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

346961

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
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	Adult Education: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to the Adult Skills Budget on the number of (a) disadvantaged students able to study further education courses and (b) adult students able to study further education courses.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	25
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/06/2015 answer text <p>We remain committed to ensuring the skills system operates effectively to support adult learners and the needs of learners who are most disadvantaged.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The adult skills system is demand led so individuals get a choice of what and where to study. The freedoms and flexibilities offered by the adult skills budget gives colleges and training providers the ability to offer provision to respond best to the priorities and needs of learners and employers in the local area. The Skills Funding Agency considers the impact on colleges and providers when agreeing allocations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 01/06/2015 16:01:12 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins