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date	15/12/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Young People
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what measures are in place to increase the proportion of young people under 25 registered to vote in the 2015 General Election.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL3770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government has introduced online registration in Great Britain. Young people are one of the biggest users of on-line registration to date and over 852,595 have applied to register to vote since June.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 9 January Government announced that almost £10 million will be given to local authorities and to national activity to boost the number of people registering to vote around the country. This is in addition to the £4.2 million announced last year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Up to £2.5 million will be used to fund wider activity, including working with national organisations to encourage groups who are not as well represented on the electoral register in general, such as young people including students.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 16/01/2015 13:51:53 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey

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date	05/11/2014
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: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what contingency arrangements his Department has reached with HM Treasury on meeting the cost of the expansion of student numbers in the absence of proceeds from the sale of the student loan book in the 2010-15 Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hodge Hill
tabling member printed	Mr Liam Byrne
uin	213629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The removal of the cap on student numbers is not contingent on the sale of the loan book.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 213630 question first answered 06/01/2015 15:02:27 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
tabling member	1171 label Biography information for Liam Byrne