Since 2014-15 funding to support students in hardship has been incorporated into the Student Opportunities allocation. Information on the Student Opportunities allocations in the 2015-16 academic year is not yet available. Monitoring returns from institutions on the use of the Student Opportunities Fund for the 2014-15 academic year will be submitted to the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) in the first quarter of 2016 and will tell us how what proportion of the Fund was delivered as hardship payments to students. Information for 2015-16 will not be available until the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>
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The British Business Bank launched as a public limited Company in November 2014. Since then it has facilitated over £1.5m of finance for small and medium-sized enterprises in Preston.<\/p>
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On 27 March 2015 the Green Investment Bank and fund manager Equitix announced a commitment to fund the installation of energy efficient heating systems in sheltered housing complexes throughout England. The injection of capital will see new, highly efficient heating systems fitted in up to 28 developments across the country. They include: Bamber Bridge, Douglas Street and Percy Street (Preston), plus Matthias Court in Morecambe (Lancashire).<\/p>
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Following a consultation in 2014 on a Sharia-compliant alternative finance product which sought to obtain views on the acceptability of an alternative finance product based upon the Takaful Model, officials in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are working with Islamic finance experts to consider the introduction of a possible alternative finance product, including terms and conditions that would be Sharia-compliant and equivalent to other student loans. Advice has been received from Al Rayan Bank (formally Islamic Bank of Britain).<\/p>
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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) publishes young participation rates by parliamentary constituency. These show the proportion of young people in each parliamentary constituency who entered higher education by the age of 19, for each cohort of 18 year olds between 1998 and 2011. These can be viewed at the following link:<\/p>
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/analysis/yp/trendsyp/pment/<\/a><\/p> The statistics will be updated to include the 2012 cohort of 18 year olds in the summer.<\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/178041/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Information on apprenticeship starts by geography and sector subject area is published in a supplementary table to a Statistical First Release (SFR):<\/p> <\/p>