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172473

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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 recent estimate he has made of the number of additional students that will enter higher education in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18 as a result of the removal of the cap on student numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220140
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172474

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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 recent estimate he has made of the additional costs of (a) the face value of student loans, (b) the resource costs of student loans, (c) teaching grant through the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (d) maintenance grant that will arise from the removal of the cap on student numbers.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220141
	answer	answer is ministerial correction answer text <p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

61013

	registered interest
	date	10/06/2014
	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	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	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 availability of training in manufacturing and engineering skills in Hampshire subsequent to the closure of the BAE shipyard in Portsmouth.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	199844
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><sub>We recognise the importance of manufacturing and engineering skills to the economy : these will be vital to building the Solent area's strengths in marine and maritime. BIS is working closely with industry, Job Centre Plus, and Portsmouth Council to support those employees impacted by BAE's decision to close its shipyard in Portsmouth, including providing upskilling and reskilling opportunities.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>In the Southampton &amp; Portsmouth City Deal, we announced a £1 million DWP Rapid Response Service that will support those recently made redundant and that Government and local industry will invest £3m in a Marine and Maritime Employer Ownership for skills Programme, responding to the immediate skills needs in small and medium sized enterprises in the advance manufacturing sector. Alongside the City Deal, £5m from the ‘Solent Future' Regional Growth Fund programme is available to support the up-skilling and re-skilling of BAE staff facing redundancy.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>The Skills Funding Agency is also working with colleges and training providers in the Solent area to ensure that support is available to any employees at risk of redundancy to update/reskill - supported by £2.5m of Skills Support for Redundancy European Social Fund money. </sub><sub>Additionally the existing UK wide Talent Retention Solution is available to help match skilled workers to engineering jobs in the local area (currently advertising 692</sub><sub>vacancies in the south of England on its website</sub>[1]<sub>) and the</sub><sub> National Careers Service is available to offer free impartial careers advice to those impacted on updating skills or retraining for alternative employment.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub> </sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership and Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership are involved in detailed negotiations with Government for Growth Deals that will see powers and funding devolved from Whitehall to local partners to drive growth in their area – which covers Hampshire. Solent and EM3 have both put forward proposals to grow the skills – particularly STEM and engineering skills – in their areas. We expect to make announcements on Growth Deals shortly.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub> </sub></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1] Active TRS vacancies listed on 11 June 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 16/06/2014 16:08:42 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

62186

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2014
	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	Shipbuilding: Portsmouth
	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 number of former BAE staff at the Portsmouth shipyard who have been recruited by overseas ship-builders.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	201062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p><sub>The local taskforce is working to secure positive outcomes for all staff leaving BAE in Portsmouth. It is too early to draw conclusions.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub> </sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>We recognise the importance of manufacturing and engineering skills to the economy: these will be vital to building the Solent area's strengths in marine and maritime. BIS is working closely with industry, Job Centre Plus, and Portsmouth Council to support those employees impacted by BAE's decision to close its shipyard in Portsmouth.</sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>The Southampton &amp; Portsmouth City Deal announced a £1 million DWP Rapid Response Service that will support those recently made redundant. Government and local industry will invest £3m in a Marine and Maritime Employer Ownership for skills Programme, responding to the immediate skills needs in small and medium sized enterprises in the advanced manufacturing sector. </sub></p><p> </p><p><sub>Additionally the existing UK wide Talent Retention Solution is available to help match skilled workers to engineering jobs in the UK </sub><sub>and is currently advertising 693</sub><sub>vacancies in the south of England on its website</sub><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup><sub>.</sub></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /><p>[1] Active TRS vacancies listed on 18 June 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sevenoaks answering member printed Michael Fallon question first answered 23/06/2014 17:00:13 answering member 88 label Biography information for Sir Michael Fallon
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

171062

	registered interest
	date	17/12/2014
	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	Students: Tax Allowances
	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 degree students were supported by employers in the most recent year for which figures are available; and in how many such cases tax relief was granted on the employer's costs.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	219074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects data on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Providers. In academic year 2012/13, there were 18,780 students enrolled on First Degrees in publicly funded Higher Education Institutions in the UK whose main source of tuition fees was their employer. Information on tax relief granted on employers’ costs should be requested from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 06/01/2015 15:51:37 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark previous answer version 37078 answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172115

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	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 students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each further education and higher education institution in England.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	219937
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>As the requested table is large, information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by each further education provider in England has been placed in the libraries of the house. The information is not available for Higher Education Institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by provider type.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by geography is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Higher Apprenticeship Starts by Provider Type, 2011/12 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Provider Type</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General FE and Tertiary College</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>4,000</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Public Funded</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private Sector Public Funded</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td><td><p>5,500</p></td><td><p>5,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sixth Form College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Specialist College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Higher Apprenticeship Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 3,700 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,200 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1) The source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).</p><p> </p><p>2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 except for Totals, which are rounded to the nearest 100 ; “-“ represents a base value of less than 5.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 219938 219939 question first answered 09/01/2015 14:27:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172116

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	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 students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 by each type of provider.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	219938
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>As the requested table is large, information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by each further education provider in England has been placed in the libraries of the house. The information is not available for Higher Education Institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by provider type.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by geography is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Higher Apprenticeship Starts by Provider Type, 2011/12 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Provider Type</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General FE and Tertiary College</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>4,000</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Public Funded</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private Sector Public Funded</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td><td><p>5,500</p></td><td><p>5,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sixth Form College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Specialist College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Higher Apprenticeship Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 3,700 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,200 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1) The source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).</p><p> </p><p>2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 except for Totals, which are rounded to the nearest 100 ; “-“ represents a base value of less than 5.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 219937 219939 question first answered 09/01/2015 14:27:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172117

	registered interest
	date	06/01/2015
	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 students started a higher level apprenticeship at levels 4, 5 and 6 in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each parliamentary constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	219939
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/01/2015 answer text <p>As the requested table is large, information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by each further education provider in England has been placed in the libraries of the house. The information is not available for Higher Education Institutions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1 shows the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by provider type.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts by geography is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/382956/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-level-and-age.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Table 1: Higher Apprenticeship Starts by Provider Type, 2011/12 to 2013/14</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Provider Type</p></td><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General FE and Tertiary College</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>4,000</p></td><td><p>3,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Public Funded</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>200</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Private Sector Public Funded</p></td><td><p>2,300</p></td><td><p>5,500</p></td><td><p>5,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sixth Form College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Specialist College</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Higher Apprenticeship Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 3,700 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,800 </strong></p></td><td><p><strong> 9,200 </strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p> </p><p>1) The source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).</p><p> </p><p>2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10 except for Totals, which are rounded to the nearest 100 ; “-“ represents a base value of less than 5.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 219937 219938 question first answered 09/01/2015 14:27:55 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172472

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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 (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) UK and (ii) other EU students started undergraduate higher education courses in England in (A) 2013-14 and (B) 2014-15.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 220142 question first answered 13/01/2015 14:12:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham

172475

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2015
	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 additional students entered higher education in 2014-15 as a result of the increase in the cap on student numbers announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
	tabling member constituency	Southampton, Itchen
	tabling member printed	Mr John Denham
	uin	220142
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2015 answer text <p>Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark grouped question UIN 220139 question first answered 13/01/2015 14:12:04 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	61 label Biography information for Mr John Denham