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479477

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Attorney General: European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, how much his Department received from the European Social Fund between 2007 and 2014; and how much his Department further received from the European Social Investment Fund from 2014 to the last month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	31679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2016 answer text <p>The Law Officers’ Departments have not received any such funding.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 23/03/2016 10:35:29 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

479478

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Science: Capital Investment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the running costs were for the 56 capital based science projects which his Department has funded for each year since 2007, referred to in the NAO Report entitled BIS's capital investment in science projects, HC 885, published on 10 March 2016; and what the projected running costs for those projects are for each year to 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>Running costs for 2014-15 for the 56 projects are given in Appendix 3 of the NAO Science Capital report where facilities are operational. These figures come from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and its Partner Organisations and provide an indication of annual running costs of these projects.</p><p>Project level management and allocation of funding for the majority of ongoing science projects is done at Partner Organisation level, in accordance with the delivery responsibilities of the Partner Organisations BIS funds. BIS does not hold this level of information centrally and it would not be possible to collect this information for each of the years since 2007, and estimates for future years, without disproportionate cost. However, the Government has protected the science and research budget in real terms in the 2015 spending review to ensure science spending remains on a sustainable footing and continues to deliver world-class research.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/03/2016 14:52:05 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479481

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Overseas Students: Loans
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 people were refused student loans as a result of their discretionary leave to remain immigration status in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	31672
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company does not hold information on the number of student loan applicants with discretionary leave to remain who have had their application for support refused.</p><p>A public consultation on the introduction of a new category of eligibility for those with long residence in the UK, including periods of discretionary leave, closed in January 2016. The consultation can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/student-support-for-non-UK-nationals-who-have-lived-in-the-UK-for-a-long-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/student-support-for-non-UK-nationals-who-have-lived-in-the-UK-for-a-long-time</a></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/03/2016 14:53:16 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

479486

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Construction: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the average length was of apprenticeships in the construction, planning and the built environment sector in 2015.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Steve Rotheram
uin	31693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>Estimates of the average length of Apprenticeships, overall and by Sector Subject Area, are published as a supplementary table (first link) to a Statistical First Release (second link). Latest published data in this table is for the 2013/14 academic year. Data for 2014/15 will be published at the same link in due course.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464924/apprenticeships-average-length-of-stay.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/464924/apprenticeships-average-length-of-stay.xls</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles grouped question UIN 31690 question first answered 24/03/2016 14:44:16 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4035 label Biography information for Steve Rotheram

479493

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, when he plans to answer Written Questions 29167 and 29238, tabled on 1 March 2016 and Written Question 29372, tabled on 2 March 2016.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31537
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2016 answer text <p>I have replied to the hon Member.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 30/03/2016 04:42:57 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

479495

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Research: Finance
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 assessment has he made of the potential impact on innovation in the UK of his Department's change to government research and development funding from a grant-based to a loan-based system.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	31572
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2016 answer text <p>Like many of our competitor economies, we are looking to provide a wider range of financial products to support, innovation in UK industry. In the coming months, we will, be conducting market research to better understand the needs of innovative businesses in the UK.</p><p>This will be followed by a pilot to test specific financial support mechanisms, with an evaluation in late 2016, leading to a roll-out of a range of new products in 2017. We will continue to provide grant funding to support research and development where appropriate - including, for example, aerospace research supported by the Aerospace Technology Institute and automotive research supported by the Advanced Propulsion Centre.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 31/03/2016 14:51:29 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

479497

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Zika Virus: Research
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 his Department is taking to help support research into the Zika virus.
tabling member constituency	Wells
tabling member printed	James Heappey
uin	31598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2016 answer text <p>In February we allocated £1 million from the Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund to help urgently tackle the Zika virus; the Medical Research Council (MRC) received over 100 applications for support through its Rapid Response Initiative. To meet this demand, in March we committed up to an additional £2 million, with a further £1 million from the Wellcome Trust, bringing the total that was available up to a maximum of £4 million of funding.</p><p>Today, the MRC has announced that it has allocated c. £3.2 million of this funding to tackle the emerging and unknown threats of this virus. Our commitment to protect the science budget in real terms to the end of the Parliament means we can react quickly to help tackle these life-threatening global challenges.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 21/03/2016 11:26:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4528 label Biography information for James Heappey

479498

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
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	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: European Social Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding his Department received from the European Social Fund (a) between 2007 and 2014 and (b) from 2014 to the last month for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	31633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2016 answer text <p>The Skills Funding Agency (and its predecessor, the Learning and Skills Council) is a co-financing organisation for the European Social Fund in England. It received £1,494,936,801.00 between January 2007 and December 2013 and £485,027,046.00 from January 2014 to December 2015, a total of £1,979,963,847.00. The money was used to support skills projects across England.</p><p>For the 2014-2020 Programme in England the Skills Funding Agency has put in place funding agreements with Local Enterprise Partnerships to the value of £725m from the European Social Fund.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 24/03/2016 14:40:29 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

479500

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electoral Register: Educational Institutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to increase the level of voter registration in schools, colleges and universities.
tabling member constituency	Northampton South
tabling member printed	David Mackintosh
uin	31600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Government has made it easier and quicker to register to vote than ever before through online registration. Since June 2014, 3.6 million people aged 16-24 have applied to register to vote, with 2.7 million of these applications made online. The Government has also worked with various youth organisations such as NUS and Sixth Form Colleges Association, to encourage voter registration among students.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose question first answered 11/04/2016 10:01:28 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
tabling member	4431 label Biography information for David Mackintosh

479501

registered interest
date	17/03/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Publications
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost was of producing single departmental plans for each central government department.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	31591
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2016 answer text <p>All departments undertake business planning and performance management as part of business-as-usual to ensure the effective delivery of government. Single departmental plans have been introduced in this Parliament to be a common framework by which departments manage this business and the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury tracks progress against its commitments to the public.</p><p>The production of plans is part of this routine business planning, rather than an additional activity at additional cost. By rationalising reporting, we expect the process to become more efficient as it embeds.</p> answering member constituency West Dorset answering member printed Mr Oliver Letwin question first answered 22/03/2016 14:07:37 answering member 247 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Letwin
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh