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168491

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2014
	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	Medicine: Postgraduate Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) Masters students, and (2) PhD students were supported via the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in nursing or allied care disciplines in each of the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Willis of Knaresborough
	uin	HL3521
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department supports postgraduate study in nursing and allied care disciplines through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), except where courses are sponsored directly by National Health Service (NHS) bodies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HEFCE funding is provided via two different routes:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>i) Taught Programmes, which are typically Masters qualifications such as Masters of Arts or Masters of Sciences, but also include courses such as postgraduate diplomas;</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>ii) Research Programmes, which are typically Doctorates in Philosophy (PhDs), but can include some Masters programmes such as Masters of Philosophy or Masters of Research courses. Research programmes are funded through ‘Quality-Related (QR) Research Degree Programme (RDP) supervision funding’.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of full-time equivalents funded on each of these programmes is provided in the tables.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br></p><p>Funding for Postgraduate Taught Programmes</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Students funded by HEFCE on Taught Programmes in nursing and subjects allied to medicine<sup>1</sup></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Taught Masters Programmes<strong><sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>2,685</p></td><td><p>3,170</p></td><td><p>2,910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Taught Post-Graduate Programmes</p></td><td><p>1,045</p></td><td><p>1,160</p></td><td><p>1,360</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 students.</p><p> </p><p>1. Figures are based on the ‘Subjects allied to medicine’ principal subject area, defined by the Joint Academic Coding System, and exclude those studying ‘Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology’ and ‘Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy’.</p><p> </p><p>2. Taught Masters Programmes are defined by HESA course aims E00, M00, M01, M02, M10, M11, M16 and M50. The full definitions for these course aims are published at <a href="http://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p>3. Source of data: HESA/ILR data for the period 2010-11 to 2012-13.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Funding for Postgraduate Research Programmes</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Students counting towards HEFCE’s Quality Related Research Degree Programme supervision funding<sup>1, 2</sup></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2010/11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011/12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012/13</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nursing and Midwifery</p></td><td><p>355</p></td><td><p>375</p></td><td><p>375</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Allied Health Professions and Studies</p></td><td><p>955</p></td><td><p>995</p></td><td><p>1,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>1,310</p></td><td><p>1,365</p></td><td><p>1,370</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 students.</p><p> </p><p>1 Eligible UK- and EU-domiciled postgraduate research students are counted in this allocation.</p><p> </p><p>2 Research Students include both those studying towards PhDs and those studying towards a research masters (such as an MRes or MPhil).</p><p> </p><p>3 Nursing and allied care studies have been defined in this table on the basis of Units of Assessment used in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.</p><p> </p><p>4 FTE Figures on QR RDP supervision funding are based on Post-Graduate Research Data reported to HESA for the years shown.</p><p> </p><p>5 Funding is confined to those Higher Education Provider Departments that attained a rating of at least a 2* in the 2008 RAE.</p><p><br></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Saltaire question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:23 answering member 1816 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Saltaire
	tabling member	4151 label Biography information for Lord Willis of Knaresborough

169064

	registered interest
	date	09/12/2014
	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	Private Equity
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements for companies owned or substantially owned by private equity funds.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mendelsohn
	uin	HL3554
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>Measures to create a central, public register of people with significant control over UK companies are contained within the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill. Where a private equity fund owns more than 25% of a UK company’s shares or voting rights – or otherwise exercises significant control over that company - the company will need to disclose information on the control of the fund in line with the requirements in Schedule 3 of the Bill.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government does not have any plans to introduce any further transparency requirements on such companies.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:52:51 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4286 label Biography information for Lord Mendelsohn

170076

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	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	Aggregates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the availability of aggregates for the construction industry.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3711
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills publish data on the aggregates industry, in their statistical bulletin ‘Monthly Statistics of Building Materials and Components’. This does not include any measure of availability (such as stock levels), but does include sales of; sand for building; sand for concreting; gravel for concreting, and other uses; sand and gravel for coating; sand, gravel, and hoggin for fill; and marine dredged sand and gravel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Sales of Sand and Gravel in Great Britain</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Great Britain</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p><p>Thousand tonnes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Sand</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sand</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gravel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sand &amp;</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sand,</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sand &amp;</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Gravel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gravel</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Gravel</strong></p></td><td><p>of which</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>for</p></td><td><p>for</p></td><td><p>for</p></td><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>&amp; Hoggin</strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Building</p></td><td><p>Concreting</p></td><td><p>Concreting</p></td><td><p>for</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Marine-</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>&amp; other uses</p></td><td><p>Coating</p></td><td><p>for Fill</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p><strong>Dredged</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Q4</p></td><td><p>1,227</p></td><td><p>4,510</p></td><td><p>4,115</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>..</p></td><td><p>12,074</p></td><td><p>2,634</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Q1</p></td><td><p>1,420</p></td><td><p>4,450</p></td><td><p>4,463</p></td><td><p>400</p></td><td><p>1,741</p></td><td><p>12,475</p></td><td><p>2,447</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Q2</p></td><td><p>1,355</p></td><td><p>4,419</p></td><td><p>4,788</p></td><td><p>320</p></td><td><p>1,207</p></td><td><p>12,090</p></td><td><p>2,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>Q3 (P)</p></td><td><p>1,674</p></td><td><p>5,277</p></td><td><p>5,122</p></td><td><p>699</p></td><td><p>1,116</p></td><td><p>13,889</p></td><td><p>3,489</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>P – provisional</p><p>.. – not available</p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Source: BIS</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:51:46 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

170077

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2014
	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	Aggregates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to ensure that the United Kingdom aggregates industry can compete fairly against overseas suppliers.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3712
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2014 answer text <p>Returning the UK to balanced and sustainable growth is a key priority and Industrial Strategy is a key part of the plan. Improving the UK’s trade position is central to much of Industrial Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The trade position in UK aggregates is positive. In the most recent quarter (2014Q3), provisional figures from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills show that UK exports of aggregates outstripped exports by 5,958 thousand tonnes (6,904 thousand tonnes of exports, compared to 946 thousand tonnes of imports).</p><p> </p><p>The level of imports and exports in non-specialist aggregates to the UK is relatively low. For instance, over the same quarter (2014Q3), provisional figures for UK sales of sand for building and concreting totalled 6,951 thousand tonnes, compared to UK imports of 370 thousand tonnes of sand for construction and exports of 165 thousand tonnes.</p><p> </p><p>The Aggregates Levy – an environmental tax levied on commercially exploited aggregates – has been frozen for the last four years to support the construction industry. The tax is levied on imported aggregate, but not on that exported by UK producers, enabling them to compete fairly with overseas suppliers. The Government remains committed to reinstating the Aggregate Levy Credit Scheme in Northern Ireland following a positive decision by the European Commission earlier this year. The credit scheme helped mitigate the different market conditions the aggregates industry in Northern Ireland faces due to sharing a land boundary with another EU Member State.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Neville-Rolfe question first answered 22/12/2014 14:51:15 answering member 4284 label Biography information for Baroness Neville-Rolfe
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark