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529960

registered interest
date	29/06/2016
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	Paediatrics: Audiology
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what funding contingencies are in place in the event that the UK exiting the EU results in a drop in foreign nationals studying in Britain and Northern Ireland.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2016 answer text <p>We remain an EU member until the time we complete successful exit negotiations, with all the rights and obligations that derive from this. The UK has, and will continue to have, a world-class education system that attracts students from across the world including the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 07/07/2016 15:18:08 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

529193

registered interest
date	28/06/2016
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	Nabeel Rajab
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to cover any shortfall in university research funding as a result of the UK leaving the EU if a satisfactory negotiated alternative cannot be achieved.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL847
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2016 answer text <p>The future of UK access to European research and innovation funding will be a matter for the new Prime Minister and government to discuss. The government is determined to ensure that the UK continues to play a leading role in European and international research and innovation.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 04/07/2016 15:12:09 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

529195

registered interest
date	28/06/2016
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	EU Immigration
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what training teachers preparing to work in prisons receive beyond their teaching qualification.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2016 answer text <p>In the majority of adult prisons in England education is delivered by Skills Funding Agency (SFA) Offender Learning and Skills Service (OLASS) providers. Individuals wishing to be employed by OLASS providers to teach in prisons should meet the same standards as those preparing to teach SFA funded provision in the learning and skills sector in England.</p><p>In addition, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills grant funds the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) to deliver a specific programme of work to support teaching and learning in prisons, this includes activity to support the professional development of OLASS teachers. In 2016-17 we made available £0.6m to the ETF.</p><p>Training such as in health and safety is the responsibility of the Prison Governor and is arranged locally for OLASS staff by individual prisons.</p><p>There are also a number of privately managed prisons where the operator is responsible for providing education under their contract with the National Offender Management Service. The Directors of those prisons ensure that, beyond their teaching qualifications, teachers will attend a training course varying between three days and one week, depending on which prison they work at. This training is aimed at preparing them to work in the prison environment. A number of these prisons operate a further period where the new starter will observe and shadow existing staff, usually lasting two weeks.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 08/07/2016 11:27:50 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

524318

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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	S4C: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what safeguards and governance arrangements have been put in place to prevent a recurrence of the situation where (1) the Principal of North East Surrey College of Technology allegedly paid her husband over £170,000 during the course of a contract with a Saudi Arabian college, and (2) the Board of Governors were unaware for over 18 months that such payments were made.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>As an independent corporation North East Surrey College of Technology is responsible for ensuring appropriate safeguards and governance arrangements are in place in relation to the corporation including subsidiary companies. The Skills Funding Agency has received a report from NESCOT and is considering whether there is any risk to public funds and if so what action should be taken.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 15/06/2016 15:11:03 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

522883

registered interest
date	06/06/2016
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	RMS St Helena
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what safeguards they have put in place to ensure that, if the student loan book is sold on, students are not faced with increased rates of interest on their student loans.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>As stated in the March 2016 Budget, the Government is continuing to prepare for the sale of the pre-2012 income contingent repayment student loan book, with a first sale expected in 2016-17.</p><p>Purchasers would have no direct relationship with borrowers, and would have no power to amend the terms of repayment. Government would still finance student loans and continue to collect repayments.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 14/06/2016 13:16:03 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

511880

registered interest
date	13/04/2016
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	Students: Fees and Charges
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what penalties are in place for higher education institutions that knowingly accept UK student fee status for students who hold British passports, but whose parents have not paid tax in the UK for past five years, and whose education is shown to have taken place overseas.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL7639
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2016 answer text <p>Higher education institutions have discretion to charge a student who is not eligible for home fee status whatever fee they deem appropriate, including the same fee as they charge students who have home fee status.</p><p>The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) allocates funding to HE institutions, to cover some of the teaching costs of students who are eligible for home fees status and studying high cost subjects. The Council monitors the student number data of all institutions, to ensure they receive only the funding to which they are entitled. HEFCE has powers to withhold funding from any institution which has received funding for which it is not eligible.</p><p>Student Finance England is responsible for assessing students’ eligibility for financial support. It can only award support to students who satisfy the eligibility criteria in full. The fee a student is paying is not considered in this assessment.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 26/04/2016 15:31:43 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

451793

registered interest
date	09/02/2016
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	Students: Plagiarism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Evans of Bowes Park on 26 January (HL5024), what assessment they have made of whether the specialist software Turnitin is able to detect whether a whole essay was not written by the person submitting, such as if that essay had been paid for from an essay mill.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL6068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made no such assessment. The selection of particular types of software is an academic matter for individual institutions.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 29/02/2016 13:11:27 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

450498

registered interest
date	03/02/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Location
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the announced closure of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ Sheffield office and their proposal to establish six new business centres across the country, where those proposed new centres will be located.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2016 answer text <p>As part of the Department’s change programme, BIS2020, we anticipate reducing the number of our locations from more than 80 to approximately 7 centres plus a regional footprint. Beyond the announcement made about our Sheffield office at St Paul’s Place on 28 January, we do not yet know exactly which sites will be retained or closed over the course of the Parliament. By 2020 the majority of employees in BIS and its Partner Organisations will continue to be based outside London through a number of centres – such as in Birmingham, Glasgow, and Swindon – as well as a regional footprint for the provision of local services.</p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 11/02/2016 12:54:11 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

444473

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Students: Plagiarism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what safeguards are in place to prevent students using paid-for commercial essay-writing services advertised on the internet.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5024
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government strongly condemns any form of cheating. All publicly funded providers of higher education courses are expected to comply with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, published by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). One of the requirements of the Code is to ensure that students do not obtain awards through any form of unacceptable academic practice relating to assessment, including plagiarism. There is no centrally held set of data on the number of recorded plagiarism cases in UK Higher Education – responsibility for tackling plagiarism lies with the HE providers themselves, as autonomous organisations. Institutions have a variety of mechanisms to address cheating by both international and EEA/UK students, including strong policies and specialist software. Between 2012 and 2015, the QAA carried out approximately 650 reviews of institutions. Of these, it only had to make recommendations to 30 individual universities and colleges on the need to improve systems and information related to plagiarism. The QAA are discussing the legality of essay mills with the Consumer and Markets Authority.</p> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 26/01/2016 16:52:20 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

444474

registered interest
date	13/01/2016
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	Students: Plagiarism
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether universities keep and make available statistics regarding the number of students who are caught having someone else write their work for them, broken down by academic year.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL5025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government strongly condemns any form of cheating. All publicly funded providers of higher education courses are expected to comply with the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, published by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). One of the requirements of the Code is to ensure that students do not obtain awards through any form of unacceptable academic practice relating to assessment, including plagiarism.</p><p>There is no centrally held set of data on the number of recorded plagiarism cases in UK Higher Education – responsibility for tackling plagiarism lies with the HE providers themselves, as autonomous organisations.</p><p>Institutions have a variety of mechanisms to address cheating by both international and EEA/UK students, including strong policies and specialist software. Between 2012 and 2015, the QAA carried out approximately 650 reviews of institutions. Of these, it only had to make recommendations to 30 individual universities and colleges on the need to improve systems and information related to plagiarism.</p><p>The QAA are discussing the legality of essay mills with the Consumer and Markets Authority.</p><br /> <br /> answering member printed Baroness Evans of Bowes Park question first answered 26/01/2016 16:43:26 answering member 4329 label Biography information for Baroness Evans of Bowes Park
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey