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166222

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the average time taken by the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator to deal with correspondence received from stakeholders.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216178
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>Correspondence from stakeholders is an operation matter for the office of the Groceries Code Adjudicator, which is an independent statutory regulator established by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills does not therefore hold the requested information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:52:53 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

165873

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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: Shrewsbury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will discuss with the Leader of Shropshire Council the technical and financial assistance that would be required to establish a new university in Shrewsbury.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	215914
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>I understand that the University of Chester is working with local partners and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) with the aim of opening a campus in Shrewsbury which in time, may develop into a higher education institution in its own right.</p><p>I will be happy to have a discussion with my Hon. Friend and the Leader of Shropshire Council about the plans to establish a new university in Shrewsbury.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 215915 215916 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:04:49 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

165874

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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: Shrewsbury
	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 for a new university to be established in Shrewsbury.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	215915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>I understand that the University of Chester is working with local partners and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) with the aim of opening a campus in Shrewsbury which in time, may develop into a higher education institution in its own right.</p><p>I will be happy to have a discussion with my Hon. Friend and the Leader of Shropshire Council about the plans to establish a new university in Shrewsbury.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 215914 215916 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:04:49 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

165875

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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: Shrewsbury
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps the Government is taking to support Shropshire Council's efforts to establish a new university in Shrewsbury.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	uin	215916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>I understand that the University of Chester is working with local partners and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) with the aim of opening a campus in Shrewsbury which in time, may develop into a higher education institution in its own right.</p><p>I will be happy to have a discussion with my Hon. Friend and the Leader of Shropshire Council about the plans to establish a new university in Shrewsbury.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 215914 215915 question first answered 02/12/2014 16:04:49 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

166223

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	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 staff are employed by the Grocery Code Adjudicator.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216179
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is a corporation sole created by the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013. Consequently, the Adjudicator does not directly employ any staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The office of the Adjudicator is staffed by public sector employees as provided for by Schedule 1 to the 2013 Act. There are currently four staff seconded to the office of the Adjudicator.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:54:08 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

166221

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	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	Groceries Code Adjudicator
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions the Grocery Code Adjudicator has (a) launched an investigation, (b) recommended enforcement measures and (c) made a recommendation to the Office of Fair Trading that the Code should be changed since publication of the Adjudicator's 2013-14 annual report.
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	uin	216177
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Groceries Code Adjudicator is an independent regulator established under the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I am not aware that the Adjudicator has exercised any of these regulatory functions since the publication of her Annual Report for 2013 – 2014 on 22 July 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/12/2014 11:51:30 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

165884

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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, how many and what proportion of undergraduates studying in universities are of each social grade.
	tabling member constituency	West Bromwich West
	tabling member printed	Mr Adrian Bailey
	uin	215818
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publish information annually on the participation in Higher Education by under-represented students groups in their UK Performance Indicators tables. The available figures on participation by National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC) can be located in Table 1a at the following link:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/09/10/urg" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/09/10/urg</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>HESA figures show that 73,240 (or 32.6%) of young UK domiciled First degree entrants in UK universities came from socio-economic classifications that comprise small employers/account workers, lower supervisory and technical workers and semi routine or routine occupations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/12/2014 11:55:32 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 30680 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	320 label Biography information for Mr Adrian Bailey

164305

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	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	Students: Suffolk
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of students in Suffolk local education authority area applied for student (a) loans and (b) grants in the (i) 2008-09, (ii) 2009-10 and (iii) 2010-11 academic years.
	tabling member constituency	Bury St Edmunds
	tabling member printed	Mr David Ruffley
	uin	215720
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>The number of full-time students, residing in the local authority of Suffolk when they applied for financial support, who were awarded student loans or grants in academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 is shown in Table 1.</p><p> </p><p>It was not possible to provide the proportions requested in the answer because estimates of the loan and grant eligible population are not available at that level of detail.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1</strong> -- Students awarded student loans or grants who were living in Suffolk Local Authority<sup>1</sup> when they applied for financial support.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local authority: Suffolk</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Type of financial support</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Academic Year</p></td><td><p>Loans</p><p>[2]</p></td><td><p>Grants and Allowances [3]</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008/09</p></td><td><p>10,300</p></td><td><p>6,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/10</p></td><td><p>11,100</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,300</p></td><td><p>6,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>11,800</p></td><td><p>7,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>11,700</p></td><td><p>6,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>12,000</p></td><td><p>6,700</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source: Student Loans Company</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[1] Suffolk Local Authority covers applicants with postcodes in Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury and Suffolk districts at the time of application</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[2] Includes maintenance and tuition fee loans</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[3] Includes Higher Education grants, Special Support grants, Maintenance grants, Tuition Fee grants, Disabled Student allowances, Travel grants, Childcare grants, Dependants grants, Parental Learning allowances and Adult Dependant grants.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[4] Data refer to the mid-November following the end of each respective academic year.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>[5] Figures may differ slightly from the answer provided in March 2011 as a more recent postcode address file has been used.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 02/12/2014 16:08:14 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	133 label Biography information for Mr David Ruffley

166107

	registered interest
	date	25/11/2014
	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	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the total trade deficit or surplus with the European Union in goods and services between 2010 and 2013; and what is their estimate of any deficit in 2014 to date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Stoddart of Swindon
	uin	HL3165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/12/2014 answer text <p>UK’s trade deficit with the European Union was £28.5bn in 2010, £21.7bn in 2011, £39.5bn in 2012 and £56.2bn in 2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Currently, UK trade balance figures cover the period up to the second quarter of 2014. In the first half of 2014, UK’s trade deficit with the European Union was £25.5bn.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Source: ONS UK Economic Accounts 2014Q2</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Livingston of Parkhead question first answered 02/12/2014 12:28:47 answering member 4278 label Biography information for Lord Livingston of Parkhead
	tabling member	950 label Biography information for Lord Stoddart of Swindon