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424189

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Volkswagen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether the Serious Fraud Office is undertaking an investigation into defeat devices used by Volkswagen in emissions tests.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	13688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text As and when matters are brought to the attention of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) they are assessed in the context of the SFO's remit to investigate fraud, bribery and corruption. If appropriate, relevant matters will be considered for criminal investigation in line with SFO internal procedures. The SFO does not comment on its assessments or their status at any one time but does publish on its website details of those cases formally adopted for criminal investigation, when this is possible without prejudice to the investigation. answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 30/10/2015 14:51:18 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

424190

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Volkswagen
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Competition and Markets Authority is undertaking an investigation into defeat devices used by Volkswagen in emissions tests.
tabling member constituency	Wakefield
tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
uin	13687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <br /><p>The Competition and Markets Authority has been considering this issue carefully since it first emerged, including in liaison with government and other agencies nationally and internationally. It has not opened a formal investigation, but is continuing to assess in cooperation with government and other agencies what action it would be appropriate to take and who would be best placed to take it.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 11:28:45 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

424196

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	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, what estimate he has made of how many people in Blackburn who have taken out student loans since 2012 will be affected by the freezing of the repayment threshold of student loans at £21,000.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	13716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on freezing the student loan repayment threshold closed on 14 October.</p><br /><p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student support for the UK Government and Devolved Administrations. Information on the number of borrowers is published annually by the SLC in the Statistical First Release ‘<em>Student Loans in England: FY 2014-15</em>’. <a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx</a></p><br /><p>At the end of the financial year 2014-15, there were 3,450 borrowers on post-2012 student loan arrangements who had been domiciled in Blackburn when they applied for financial support.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 02/11/2015 11:38:46 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

424197

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	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 responses he has received to the consultation, Freezing the student loan repayment threshold, launched in July 2015; and when he expects the results of that consultation to be published.
tabling member constituency	Blackburn
tabling member printed	Kate Hollern
uin	13717
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2015 answer text <p>The consultation on freezing the student loan repayment threshold closed on 14<sup>th</sup> October. Over four hundred responses have been received and are being analysed. We will publish the results in due course.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 02/11/2015 11:35:37 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4363 label Biography information for Kate Hollern

424200

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	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 24+ Advanced Learner Loans his Department estimated would be issued to people over the age of 24 studying for Level 3 and Level 4 qualifications in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15; what budget his Department allocated to such loans in each of those years; how many Advanced Learner Loans were issued for that cohort in each of those years; and how many of the issued loans were for (i) access to Higher Education courses and (ii) Level 3 and 4 qualifications.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	13676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The “New Challenges, New Chances” consultation stage impact assessment “Further Education—Level 3+ Loans” published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on 16 August 2011 contained estimates as follows:</p><ul><li>For the 2013-14 financial year, it was estimated that 186,000 learners aged 24 and above would be supported to start level 3 and level 4 courses. This estimate included both starts supported through loans for the academic year starting in September 2013 (when these loans were introduced), and grant-funded starts prior to that. No separate estimate of loan-funded learners was available.</li><li>The estimate of starts to be funded by 24+ Advanced Learning Loans for 2014-15 financial year was 171,000. These estimates also included Apprenticeships which were removed from 24+ Advanced Learning Loans in March 2014.</li></ul><p>The number of students the budget supports depends on the level of demand and the cost of the courses that students choose. The skills investment strategy published by BIS on 1December 2011 confirmed the budget for further education loans as £129 million in 2013-14 and £398 million in 2014-15. These budgets were not revised.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/6385/slcosp042015.pdf" target="_blank">24+ Advanced Learning Loans paid in England</a> report by the Student Loans Company published on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2015 shows 55,900 learners in the 2013/14 academic year cohort were issued with loans for qualifications at level 3 and above, and 55,100 learners were issued to the 2014/15 academic year cohort.</p><p>Data is not available to split the loans issued between Access to HE Diploma courses and other level 3 and level 4 courses. We can, however split the number of approved applications in this way, with the caveat that approved applications are not indicative of actual starts. These are shown in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Level 3 and level 4</p></td><td><p>56,220</p></td><td><p>56,850</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Access to HE Diplomas</p></td><td><p>15,590</p></td><td><p>14,440</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: Student Loans Company</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 03/11/2015 14:12:34 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden

424201

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Adult Education: Croydon
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 (a) current and (b) forecast adult learner demand in Croydon.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	13679
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <br /><p>Our policy is to support the growth of high quality apprenticeship places available in Croydon and across the country as a whole. Apprenticeships are the best form of adult vocational education because they bring together in one coherent experience formal learning and personal development in the workplace. The number and nature of the apprenticeship opportunities available depends on what employers offer, but we are supporting this by doubling public funding for apprenticeships since 2010, supporting employers in developing clear new apprenticeship standards, and introducing a levy on employers to fund further growth. Our aim is that there should be three million new apprenticeship starts by 2020.</p><br /><p>Across adult education as a whole, it is important that there is the right supply of places to meet future demand. Determining what this supply should be is not something central government can take the lead on. In September the government announced a programme of area reviews, which will be locally led and will involve key stakeholders. They will be based on the best available evidence of skills requirements and establish a local post-16 education and training offer which is high quality and responsive to employer need. The reviews will support local involvement in the ongoing commissioning of provision, putting responsibility in the hands of people who are best placed to tailor provision to local economic needs. Croydon will be included in the area review process, which is due to be completed by March 2017, and an announcement on the date for the review will be announced in due course.</p><br /><p>There is also a role for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in ensuring that adult education reflects future economic development. LEPs are working in collaboration with local authorities, colleges and providers in the area to jointly agree key local skill needs and develop a local skills offer that responsive to local labour market conditions and contributes to improving our productivity. LEPs are responsible for decisions about capital allocations for adult skills projects, and the Skills Funding Agency requires colleges to engage with LEPs as a condition of its grant funding.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Nick Boles question first answered 30/10/2015 11:25:42 answering member 3995 label Biography information for Nick Boles
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

424204

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
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	Green Investment Bank
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how the Green Investment Bank has been classified in the Government accounts since its creation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	13575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <br /><p>UK Green Investment Bank plc has been treated as a central Government body since its establishment in 2012.</p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency Broxtowe answering member printed Anna Soubry question first answered 30/10/2015 11:27:34 answering member 3938 label Biography information for Anna Soubry
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

424205

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Kids Company
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress he has made in retrieving the £3 million grant to Kids Company made by his Department immediately before that charity went into administration.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	13576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>We are currently in discussions with the Official Receiver regarding retrieving the grant Government recently provided to Kids Company.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 30/10/2015 11:41:58 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

424206

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministry of Justice: Departmental Responsibilities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons the Ministry of Justice no longer has responsibility for Government policy on freedom of information and data protection.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	13702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2015 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statements of the 17 July [HLWS134] and 17 September [HCWS209]. As set out in the Ministerial Code, the Prime Minister is responsible for the overall organisation of the executive.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 05/11/2015 09:28:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

424207

registered interest
date	27/10/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Saudi Arabia: Public Sector
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which public organisations are currently holding discussions with Saudi Arabia on carrying out work for that government.
tabling member constituency	Hammersmith
tabling member printed	Andy Slaughter
uin	13619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not collect data on all discussions between public organisations and Saudi Arabia. More broadly however, the British Government cooperates with Saudi Arabia in a large number of areas such as education, energy, security, defence, trade, culture and the challenges facing the Middle East.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth East answering member printed Mr Tobias Ellwood question first answered 30/10/2015 16:45:17 answering member 1487 label Biography information for Mr Tobias Ellwood
tabling member	1516 label Biography information for Andy Slaughter