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386517

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
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	Trade Promotion
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 companies received support under the High Value Opportunities scheme in each month of the 2014-15 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	4988
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p /> <p>In the 2014-15 financial year UK Trade and Investment supported 980 companies through the High Value Programme. Data is not recorded on a month by month basis.</p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 08/07/2015 16:57:25 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

386543

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Football
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent meetings he has had to discuss the role of local authorities in the future of grassroots football.
tabling member constituency	Bolton North East
tabling member printed	Mr David Crausby
uin	5006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2015 answer text <p>On 7<sup>th</sup> July I met with Councillor Stephens from the Local Government Association and I am always open to engaging with local authority representatives on this important subject. Local authorities have a very important role in ensuring people from all backgrounds are able to participate in sport. They own or manage a large amount of sporting infrastructure in the country and have a responsibility to make sure that facilities and infrastructure are available and accessible. The Government, through Sport England, works closely with a wide range of local authorities, providing expert advice and funding to sustain and increase the number of people playing sport regularly.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 28/07/2015 14:12:18 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	437 label Biography information for Sir David Crausby

386566

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by his Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	4961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2015 answer text <p>Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, Government Departments are required to publicise successful appointments.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 14/07/2015 08:50:27 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

386568

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Sports: Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what funding his Department or its agencies have provided for facilities for (a) wheelchair basketball, (b) blind cricket, (c) deaf cricket, (d) wheelchair tennis, (e) wheelchair rugby and (f) wheelchair football since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Worcester
tabling member printed	Mr Robin Walker
uin	4829
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2015 answer text <p>Government remains committed to supporting disabled people to realise their potential in sport. Since 2012 Sport England has made disability sport a key focus of its strategy and the National Governing Bodies of Sport have specific targets for increasing the number of people with disabilities who play their sport. Sport England is currently investing over £171 million to make sport a practical and attractive lifestyle choice for disabled people and to get more disabled people playing sport.</p><p><strong>Table A:</strong> Investment in disability sport-specific facilities</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Sport</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Sport England investment in disability sport-specific facilities since 2012</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair basketball</p></td><td><p>£79,314*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blind cricket and deaf cricket</p></td><td><p>£241,540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair tennis</p></td><td><p>£150,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair rugby</p></td><td><p>£228,968</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair football</p></td><td><p>£179,114</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Includes £30,000 award to GB Wheelchair Basketball Association (GBWBA) in 2013 for new wheelchairs</p><p> </p><p>Please note that the figures in Table A only includes awards for projects which have a stated disability sport focus. Facilities like sports halls can be used for disability sports like the ones listed in Table A. Since 2012, Sport England has invested £39.8 million in 58 such sports hall projects.</p><p> </p><p>As part of GBWBA’s Whole Sport Plan investment for 2013-17, Sport England invested £154,833 in the University of Worcester Disabled Athlete Accommodation project. Across Sport England’s National Centres for Sport, at least 20 per cent of accommodation provided has been designed specifically with disability access requirements in mind.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sport England is also investing £26,000 in a research project in partnership with GBWBA to look at ways to increase the quality of surfaces used for wheelchair sports.</p> answering member constituency Chatham and Aylesford answering member printed Tracey Crouch question first answered 08/07/2015 16:58:32 answering member 3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch
tabling member	4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker

386574

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Culture Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Government Assistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Answer of 10 March 2015 to Question 226447, if he will provide an update on delivery under the Future Fifty programme in line with each of the performance indicators established by the Government and Tech City UK to date.
tabling member constituency	Streatham
tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
uin	4981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>Tech City UK’s performance against the agreed Key Performance Indicators for the Future Fifty programme to date is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Key performance indicator</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Q1 2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of firms provided with intensive one-to-one support from the Future Fifty team</p></td><td><p>62</p></td><td><p>54</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of Future Fifty events delivered</p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number of individuals from Future Fifty firms participating in events delivered as part of the programme</p></td><td><p>291</p></td><td><p>159</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Net promoter score of companies who respond positively versus negatively about the</p><p>impact of the programme</p></td><td><p>88%</p></td><td><p>n/a</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Volume of positive media coverage in target media, and key message delivery</p></td><td><p>90% of media coverage positive; all coverage contributes towards TCUK’s organisational objectives</p></td><td><p>87.5% of media coverage positive; all coverage contributes towards TCUK’s organisational objective</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 16/07/2015 16:02:08 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

386612

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Department of Energy and Climate Change: Public Appointments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will place in the Library a list of all public appointments made by her Department between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015.
tabling member constituency	Barking
tabling member printed	Margaret Hodge
uin	4963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Under the Code of Practice for Ministerial Appointments to Public Bodies April 2012, government departments are required to publicise successful appointments.</p><p>Public appointments made by the Department are either published on the Department or the relevant public bodies’ website. Between 1 January 2015 and 1 May 2015 appointments were published on the Departments website and on the Fuel Poverty Advisory Groups website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-energy-climate-change</a>;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-fuel-poverty-advisory-group" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/the-fuel-poverty-advisory-group</a>.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/07/2015 12:06:58 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	140 label Biography information for Dame Margaret Hodge

386614

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Department for Energy and Climate Change
answering dept id	63
answering dept short name	Energy and Climate Change
answering dept sort name	Energy and Climate Change
hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, if she will make a comparative estimate of per capita investment in the renewable energy sector by the UK and (a) Germany, (b) China and (c) the EU average.
tabling member constituency	Greenwich and Woolwich
tabling member printed	Matthew Pennycook
uin	4831
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the UK has benefitted from over £53bn of private sector investment in the renewable energy market (Biomass &amp; Waste, Geothermal, Marine, Small Hydro, Solar and Wind) since 2004. This equates to an average of £79 per capita per year. In the same period, around £133bn was invested in Germany at an average of £148 per capita per year and £244bn was invested in China at an average of £16 per capita per year. The European average for the same period is £78 per capita per year.</p><p>In 2014 there was over £8bn of private sector investment in the UK equivalent to £132 per capita, compared to £97 for Germany and £36 for China. The European average was £60.</p><p><em>Source - Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Eurostat and UN </em></p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 09/07/2015 12:37:35 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
tabling member	4520 label Biography information for Matthew Pennycook

386710

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Port of Dover
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the vehicles arriving at the Port of Dover are checked on arrival.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	4814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2015 answer text <p>100% of freight vehicles arriving at Dover are subject to screening checks at the border controls at the juxtaposed ports of Calais and Dunkirk. Further screening may take place at Dover on an intelligence -led basis.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 16/07/2015 16:15:40 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

386711

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Bridgend College
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 June 2015 to Question 3116, when copies of the Estyn and QAA inspection were requested from Bridgend College; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	4798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Estyn report has not been requested from the college as it is available online. Officials requested the QAA inspection report from the college on 23 June.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 09/07/2015 14:48:41 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon

386713

registered interest
date	30/06/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Institutions: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will confirm how many publicly-funded colleges have been (a) granted and (b) refused international licences to run privately-funded courses in each year since 2008.
tabling member constituency	Bridgend
tabling member printed	Mrs Madeleine Moon
uin	4785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/08/2015 answer text <p>The number of publicly-funded colleges that had an application for a Tier 4 sponsor licence (a) granted and (b) refused, in each year since 2008, is:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Granted</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>333</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>32</p></td><td><p>38</p></td><td><p>21</p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p><strong>687</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Refused</p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>13</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p><strong>92</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An application may be refused for various reasons. We do not collate information on the courses each sponsor offers or the reason(s) for the refusal of each application.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 10/08/2015 08:44:44 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1490 label Biography information for Mrs Madeleine Moon