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	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	16-19 Bursary Fund
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when considering a payment through the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund, whether the personal circumstances of a student undergoing financial hardship should be taken into account by a sixth form college.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	211959
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2014 answer text <p>The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund supports the most financially disadvantaged 16- to 19-year-olds and those young people who most need help with the costs of staying in education. Schools, colleges and providers are allocated funding from which they can make discretionary awards to young people who are facing genuine financial barriers to participating in education.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the annually updated guide published by the Education Funding Agency, institutions are advised that they should assess each student’s individual circumstances when deciding whether to award a discretionary bursary. The Government believes that institutions are best placed to decide which students face financial barriers to effective participation in education and institutions are free to determine the eligibility criteria they apply for discretionary bursary awards as well as the frequency and conditions of payments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>If a student in financial difficulties believes that their personal circumstances have not been taken into account and as a result they are facing hardship, I would urge them to ask their institution to look again at their claim.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/11/2014 14:00:24 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

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	registered interest
	date	10/11/2014
	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	New Businesses: Harlow
	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 new businesses were started in the Harlow constituency in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	214048
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2014 answer text <p>BankSearch collates data on the number of new business bank accounts opened in Great Britain. This can be used as an indicative measure of business start-up activity and is the most comprehensive source available to the Department. Data goes as far back as 2008.</p><p>The estimated number of business start-ups (rounded) in the Harlow constituency for the years 2008 to 2013 are shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Total estimated number of business start-ups in the Harlow constituency</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>590</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>640</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>770</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>670</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: BankSearch, based on the number of new business bank accounts opened.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 17/11/2014 11:15:33 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon