<\/p>
Guidance on the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 has been produced by the Trading Standards Institute, and is available at http://www.businesscompanion.info/<\/a>. This guidance is updated regularly, and we have asked TSI to consider providing clarification on ticket sales as part of these updates.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask Her Majesty\u2019s Government, further to the comments by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Jenny Willott, on 13 May (HC Deb, col 691), whether they will set out the additional guidance produced by the Trading Standards Institute in relation to the cited consumer regulations of December 2013.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/79204/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " <\/p> There are a number of grant and loan schemes administered by this Department through delivery partners. Many of these loans and grants are made to a company or organisation and not to named individuals. As such, we do not collect data on gender for these loans and grants. The tables below provide details of specific schemes aimed at individual applicants.<\/p> <\/p> Start Up Loans<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> Scheme<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of female applications<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion who were female<\/strong><\/p> application<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of female recipients<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion who were female<\/strong><\/p> recipients<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Start Up Loans (launched September 2012)<\/p><\/td> 11,526<\/p><\/td> 36%<\/p><\/td> 6914<\/p><\/td> 37%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Start Up Loans (launched September 2012) are delivered by Start Up Loan Company (SuLCo). There is no specific requirement to monitor gender, but monitoring of gender is one of the data streams SuLCo captures to aid in its reporting to government.<\/p> <\/p> Student Loans[1]<\/strong><\/strong><\/p> <\/p> Type of Support<\/strong><\/p><\/td> No of females awarded loans Academic Year 2008/09<\/strong><\/p> 000s<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion who were female<\/strong><\/p> awarded loans Academic Year 2008/09<\/strong><\/p><\/td> No of females awarded loans<\/strong><\/p> Academic Year 2012/13<\/strong><\/p> 000s<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion who were female<\/strong><\/p> awarded loans Academic Year 2012/13<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> Maintenance Grant Awarded<\/p><\/td> 263.7<\/p><\/td> 57%<\/p><\/td> 302.4<\/p><\/td> 54%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> HE Grant Awarded<\/p><\/td> 15.0<\/p><\/td> 51%<\/p><\/td> 0.0<\/p><\/td> 42%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Adult Dependant Grant Awarded<\/p><\/td> 3.6<\/p><\/td> 43%<\/p><\/td> 3.8<\/p><\/td> 43%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Childcare Grant Awarded<\/p><\/td> 9.4<\/p><\/td> 91%<\/p><\/td> 12.8<\/p><\/td> 90%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Parental Learning Allowance Awarded<\/p><\/td> 27.6<\/p><\/td> 80%<\/p><\/td> 31.8<\/p><\/td> 81%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Travel Grant Awarded<\/p><\/td> 0.7<\/p><\/td> 58%<\/p><\/td> 1.0<\/p><\/td> 56%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Disabled Students Allowance Paid<\/p><\/td> 10.9<\/p><\/td> 57%<\/p><\/td> 31.9<\/p><\/td> 58%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Tuition Fee Loan Paid<\/p><\/td> 362.6<\/p><\/td> 54%<\/p><\/td> 469.9<\/p><\/td> 53%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> Maintenance Loan Paid<\/p><\/td> 419.5<\/p><\/td> 54%<\/p><\/td> 505.5<\/p><\/td> 54%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Student Loans are delivered by Student Loans Company (SLC). There is no requirement to monitor gender. Monitoring focuses on the eligibility criteria which are set out in regulations. Gender is not part of the eligibility criteria.<\/p> <\/p> The data only includes two academic years because providing all five academic years would be of disproportionate cost.<\/p> <\/p> The data only includes those who were \u201cawarded\u201d Student Loans rather than those who \u201capplied\u201d and \u201creceived\u201d. This is because students are awarded Student Loans based on eligibility criteria so only those who applied and were eligible have been recorded.<\/p> <\/p> 24+ Advanced Learning Loan (24+ALL)*<\/strong><\/p> <\/p> Academic Year<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of learners awarded <\/em>24+ALL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of female<\/strong><\/p> learners awarded<\/em> 24+ALL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion of female learners awarded <\/em>a 24+ALL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of applications<\/em> for a 24+ALL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Number of female<\/strong><\/p> applications for a 24+ALL<\/strong><\/p><\/td> Proportion of female applications for a 24+ALL<\/strong><\/p> <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013/14<\/p> Aug 2013 to Apr 2014<\/em><\/p><\/td> 52,400<\/p><\/td> 39,500<\/p><\/td> 75%<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2013/14<\/p> To end June 2014<\/em><\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> 69,110<\/p><\/td> 52,010<\/p><\/td> 75%<\/p><\/td><\/tr> 2014/15<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> -<\/p><\/td> 4,760<\/p><\/td> 3,680<\/p><\/td> 77%<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> * Introduced in the 2013/14 Academic Year<\/p> <\/p> In addition, Vocational Education Teaching and Learning funding is outlined in the Skills Funding Statement which sets out the Government\u2019s priorities for the budget. It is for providers to decide how they use funding to reflect those priorities. The Skills Funding Statements 2012-15 and 2013-16 also show in the Data Annex what learning the available funding has supported over the last three years, including a breakdown by gender:<\/p> <\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2013-to-2016<\/a><\/p>