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65625

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Children: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will place in the Library a copy of each item of correspondence between his Department and (a) the Home Office and (b) Lord Brittan of Spennithorne in relation to child abuse in (a) 1984 and (b) 1985; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	203925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Searches of records at the Attorney General's Office have been conducted to try and determine what, if any, correspondence or files were passed to this Office in relation to these issues. We have so far found no trace of any material.</p> answering member constituency Beaconsfield answering member printed Mr Dominic Grieve grouped question UIN 204036 question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:15 answering member 16 label Biography information for Mr Dominic Grieve
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

65629

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Children: Abuse
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, if he will place in the Library copies of papers from Lord Brittan of Spennithorne in relation to child abuse in 1983 and 1984 and which were referred to his Department by the Home Office; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Mr Tom Watson
uin	204036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Searches of records at the Attorney General's Office have been conducted to try and determine what, if any, correspondence or files were passed to this Office in relation to these issues. We have so far found no trace of any material.</p> answering member constituency Beaconsfield answering member printed Mr Dominic Grieve grouped question UIN 203925 question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:15 answering member 16 label Biography information for Mr Dominic Grieve
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

65635

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Parents: Further Education
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 people in further education or training in the last academic year were (a) parents and (b) single parents.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	204008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information is not collected on the number of people in further education or training who were parents.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/07/2014 13:14:57 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65636

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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, how many (a) men and (b) women have applied for Advanced Learner loans since the start of the scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	204007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Information on the number of 24+ Advanced Learning Loan applications received between 8th April 2013 and 31st May 2014 by gender is published online:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/24-advanced-learning-loans-application-information-june-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/24-advanced-learning-loans-application-information-june-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/07/2014 13:09:56 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65637

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
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	Discretionary Learner Support Fund
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 (a) men and (b) women in further education received funding for childcare through the Discretionary Learner Support scheme in the last academic year; and what the total amount spent on such support was.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	204009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills undertook its latest analysis of Discretionary Learner Support for the full academic year 2011/12, which detailed specific breakdowns of expenditure and learner characteristics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Skills Funding Agency allocated £58.5m to providers to support childcare arrangements for their adult learners aged 20 and over. Providers assessed learner need and awarded a total of £42m for childcare to nearly 10,500 learners. Around 300 (3%) of these awards were given to males with around 10,200 being females.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/07/2014 13:11:54 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

65648

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to bar (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) any company under investigation for serious fraud from bidding for government contracts to deliver public services; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	203972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2014 answer text <p>Under the Public Contracts Regulations (2006) contracting authorities can exclude companies from public contracts where they have been convicted of certain criminal offences including conspiracy, corruption, bribery and fraud.</p><p>For further information, I refer the Honourable Member to the written statements I laid before the House on 30 January 2014 (<em>Official Record</em>, 30 January 2014, col 39WS) and 9 April 2014 (<em>Official Record</em>, 9 April 2014, col 11WS).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 07/07/2014 15:33:21 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

65653

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment he has made of the level of bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses since May 2010.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Lindsay Roy
uin	203916
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government has introduced measures to improve both bank and non-bank lending to businesses, such as the Funding for Lending Scheme, the British Business Bank and the Appeals Process.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Against this backdrop, gross lending to small and medium sized businesses in 2014 Q1 was almost 15% higher than in the same quarter a year earlier; and 32% of SMEs that have been through the Appeals Process have had their initial loan rejection overturned.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2014 14:05:44 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	1608 label Biography information for Lindsay Roy

65654

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Day Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the proportion of households who will be eligible for tax-free childcare who currently spend more than (a) £7,000, (b) £8,000, (c) £9,000 and (d) £10,000 on childcare.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	203904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>Information on the number of families eligible for Tax-Free Childcare and the number of families who will benefit from the increase of the £6,000 cap on costs per child to £10,000 can be found in Annex B of Delivering Tax-Free Childcare<strong>: </strong>the Government's response to the consultation on design and operation:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293084/PU1607_Tax_free_Childcare_response.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/293084/PU1607_Tax_free_Childcare_response.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Breakdowns of the proportion of families benefitting from the levels of support requested are not available.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 08/07/2014 14:00:26 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

65664

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Local Government: Trade Union Officials
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, for what reason the Local Government Transparency Code 2014 requires publication of the names of union representatives who spend over 50 per cent of their time on union duties, in addition to the number of such representatives and estimates of their cost as a percentage of the total pay bill; and if he will bring forward proposals to amend the code so that the identity of individuals is not published.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	203951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Code does not require local authorities to publish the names of individual members of trade unions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The hon. Member may find it useful to read paragraph 31 of the Code which clearly outlines the new provisions on increasing transparency on taxpayer-funding of trade unions.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-government-transparency-code-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 08/07/2014 14:14:52 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

65682

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Pupils: Per Capita Costs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding each school received per pupil in the latest year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	204019
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p>We now publish the schools block budget allocations in total and on a per-pupil basis annually, for every individual mainstream school, covering both maintained schools and academies. The most recent available figures are for the 2013 to 2014 financial year (for maintained schools) and 2013 to 2014 academic year (for academies) and are published at:</p><p><a href="http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/xlsx/s/schools%20block%20data%20file.xlsx%20" target="_blank">http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/xlsx/s/schools%20block%20data%20file.xlsx</a></p><p>The schools block budget allocations exclude early years, high needs and post-16 funding. They also exclude the pupil premium. For academies, per-pupil funding amounts exclude education services grants and insurance top-up funding.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 08/07/2014 10:15:38 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths