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62824

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date	19/06/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many apprentices have been hired under the Law Officers' Department's new contract for procurement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201525
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Law Officers' Departments do not hold any central records of the number of apprentices who may have been hired by its suppliers. To provide this information would involve contacting numerous companies and would therefore incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hertfordshire answering member printed Oliver Heald question first answered 26/06/2014 13:43:26 answering member 69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62825

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Apprentices
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 apprentices have been hired under his Department's new contract for procurement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201526
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business innovation and Skills does not hold central records of apprenticeships created as a direct result of contracts that it has awarded.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 26/06/2014 16:14:58 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62826

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Overseas 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, what estimate he has made of the value of loans issued to students from other EU member states in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	201550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>Statistics on student support expenditure are published annually by the Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release ‘<em>Student Support for Higher Education in England</em>'. The latest statistics, published in November 2013, are available at the following link: <a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf</a></p><p>The value of tuition fee loans issued to borrowers domiciled in the EU prior to their course was £166.5m, whereas £4,117.1m was issued to borrowers domiciled in England. These estimates include borrowers under both the pre- and post-2012/13 student finance arrangements.</p><p>Statistics referring to the Academic Year 2013/14 will be published in November 2014.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 26/06/2014 16:10:07 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

62828

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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, what his latest estimate is of the RAB charge for (a) student loans after 2012, (b) loans issued to part-time students, (c) loans issued to students in the Affiliated Loan Programme for Students, (d) Advanced-Learner Loans and (e) loans issued to non-English EU students.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	201551
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>We estimate the RAB charge on student loans issued after 2012 to be around 45%. We estimate the RAB charge for loans issued to part-time students to be around 65%.</p><p>We do not estimate a separate RAB charge for students at Alternative Providers.</p><p>The 2012 impact assessment on the introduction of 24+ Advanced Learning Loans stated that we anticipated this RAB charge would be 60% of the total loan amount. Now that we are beginning to receive figures on actual learner numbers, we are reviewing the assumptions within the RAB charge model. An updated estimate of the RAB charge on 24+ Advanced Loans will be published in July 2014 in the BIS Accounts.</p><p>We do not estimate a separate RAB charge for non-English EU students.</p><p>The actual cost of issuing student loans will be dependent on future macro-economic circumstances, in particular earnings and we will continue to update our forecasts on a regular basis to take account of changes to short term and long term macro-economic assumptions.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 26/06/2014 16:22:22 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

62829

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Higher Education: Student Wastage
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of retention rates at learning providers with designated course status.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	201552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>No estimate of retention rates at alternative providers has yet been made. The designation conditions that apply from 2014/15 onwards require alternative providers to provide a data return to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). This data once available will help inform BIS decisions on designations and enable the Department to estimate retention rates across the sector.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 26/06/2014 16:12:43 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne

62830

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	EU External Trade: Kenya
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 potential effects on access of Kenyan products to the UK of (a) ratification and (b) non-ratification by the East African Region of an interim economic partnership agreement with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South
tabling member printed	Ian Murray
uin	201546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p>Ratification of either an interim or comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) would mean the European Commission undertakes procedures allowing Kenya to receive duty-free, quota-free access on its exports to the EU. Non-ratification of an EPA would mean that some Kenyan products would face tariffs when exported to the EU from 1 October 2014. Between 2008 and 2012, Kenyan exports to the UK had an average annual value of $520 million. Without an EPA, BIS officials have estimated that $300 million of Kenyan exports would remain duty-free. $220 million of Kenyan exports to the UK would face tariffs costing around $14 million per annum. These new charges would mostly affect exports of vegetables and cut flowers.</p><p>Negotiations of EPAs have been ongoing for the previous twelve years. UK Ministers are working closely with partners in Europe and East Africa to encourage urgent ratification of a development friendly agreement.</p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 26/06/2014 14:55:53 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
tabling member	3966 label Biography information for Ian Murray

62831

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
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	Companies: Ownership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when the public register of beneficial ownership will be introduced.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	201559
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will make provision for the implementation of a central registry of company beneficial ownership information. We will implement the registry through secondary legislation as soon as practicable following Royal Assent of the Bill, which is subject to the will of Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Cardiff Central answering member printed Jenny Willott question first answered 25/06/2014 14:55:12 answering member 1497 label Biography information for Jenny Willott
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

62835

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many apprentices have been hired under his Department's new contract for procurement.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	201527
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>The Information requested is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 24/06/2014 13:27:25 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

62836

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Maternity Allowance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many women received maternity allowance in the last year for which figures are available; what the average length of time they received it for was; and what the total cost to the public purse was.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	201534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The information we have for the number receiving Maternity Allowance and the average duration is published each quarter and is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/maternity-allowance-quarterly-statistics</a></p><p> </p><p>The cost to the public purse for Great Britain in 2012/13 was £395 million in nominal terms consistent with expenditure tables published here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/benefit-expenditure-tables</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/06/2014 13:04:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

62840

registered interest
date	19/06/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Healthy Start Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many parents received Healthy Start vouchers in the latest year for which figures are available; and what the total cost to the Exchequer of such vouchers was.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	201421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2014 answer text <p>Healthy Start provides a nutritional safety net to pregnant women, new mothers and children under four years old in United Kingdom families claiming income-based benefits, or claiming Child Tax Credit without Working Tax Credit (unless it is Working Tax Credit run-on) with an annual family income of £16,190 or less. Healthy Start vouchers are issued four-weekly by post and the number entitled to receive the vouchers in each complete four week period during 2013-14 is set out in the following table.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Four weeks beginning on:</p></td><td><p>Total number of households</p></td><td><p>Total number of women and children</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>8 April 2013</p></td><td><p>457,035</p></td><td><p>557,833</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>6 May 2013</p></td><td><p>455,271</p></td><td><p>555,454</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>3 June 2013</p></td><td><p>453,646</p></td><td><p>553,208</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 July 2013</p></td><td><p>450,164</p></td><td><p>548,533</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>29 July 2013</p></td><td><p>443,939</p></td><td><p>540,437</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>26 August 2013</p></td><td><p>441,385</p></td><td><p>537,195</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>23 September 2013</p></td><td><p>438,471</p></td><td><p>533,703</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>21 October 2013</p></td><td><p>434,397</p></td><td><p>528,620</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18 November 2013</p></td><td><p>432,549</p></td><td><p>526,151</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>16 December 2013</p></td><td><p>428,328</p></td><td><p>520,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>13 January 2014</p></td><td><p>427,362</p></td><td><p>519,570</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 February 2014</p></td><td><p>425,659</p></td><td><p>517,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10 March 2014</p></td><td><p>423,156</p></td><td><p>514,217</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The gradual reduction in the number entitled to support during 2013-14 reflects a decline in the number of households meeting the qualifying criteria.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately £93 million was paid to retailers during 2013-14 for Healthy Start vouchers they had accepted in exchange for milk, formula milk, fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables. Retailers have six months from the use-by date printed on vouchers to claim reimbursement, and typically they claim reimbursement for at least 91% of all Healthy Start vouchers issued.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 25/06/2014 12:10:38 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson