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Students: Grants
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many university students receive (a) grants and (b) full grants. [180442]
Bill Rammell: Available data are shown in the table.
| Number of students receiving grants( 1,2) , students domiciled in England studying in the UK, academic year 2006-07( 3) | |
| Number (thousand)( 4) | |
| (1) Figures cover the Higher Education Grant (HEG), Maintenance Grant and the Special Support Grant. (2) Data do not include tuition fee remission grants or supplementary grants and allowances; e.g. for students with disabilities, students with dependents, single parent students, those incurring certain travel costs and those who have recently left care. (3) Latest year for which complete data are available. (4) Student numbers rounded to the nearest thousand. (5) Excludes those students who do not apply to the SLC for any financial support. (6) Constituent parts may not add to total due to rounding. Source: Student Loans Company (SLC). | |
The means-tested higher education grant (HEG) of up to £1,000 was introduced for new students in academic year 2004-05. In 2006-07 the HEG was replaced for new students by the maintenance grant and special support grant. A maximum of £2,700 (£2,765 in 2007-08) was available subject to means-testing.
Income thresholds for grant entitlement are being changed for students who will be entering higher education in or after September 2008. The income threshold for full entitlement to the maintenance grant is being increased to £25,000 (compared with £17,910 in 2007-08). The threshold for entitlement to a partial maintenance grant is increasing from £38,330 in 2007-08 to £60,005 for 2008-09. We estimate that the increased thresholds will mean that one-third of all students in England entering higher education in 2008-09 will receive a full non-repayable grant, while another one-third will receive a partial grant.
Students: Loans
Stephen Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what estimate he has made of the likely effect on administrative costs of requiring students to have an identity card to apply for a student loan; and if he will make a statement. [192337]
Bill Rammell: There are no plans to require students to have an ID card to apply for a student loan or any other form of student support, therefore no estimates of the cost have been made.
The policy on the introduction of identity cards on a voluntary basis rests with the Home Office. Currently either a passport or a birth certificate (accompanied by an identity confirmation form signed by a person of good standing) is required as proof of identity for students applying for a Government student loan. We have no current plans to change this, although the process for verifying the identity of applicants is kept under review.
John Mann: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many recipients of (a) student loans and (b) education maintenance allowance there are in Bassetlaw constituency, broken down by ward. [193299]
Bill Rammell: The information requested on student loans is not available at constituency or ward level. 10,580 students from Nottinghamshire local authority received a maintenance loan in academic year 2006-07, and 10,080 received a tuition fee loan.
The Learning and Skills Council operate the education maintenance allowance for the Department for Children, Schools and Families and hold the information about take-up and payments made under the scheme. Mark Haysom, the LSC's chief executive, will write to the hon. Gentleman with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Home Department
Animal Experiments
Mr. Hancock:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the Ministerial letter of
31 January 2006 responding to the recommendations within the Animal Procedures Committee’s 2005 report on the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, what response her Department plans to make to the APC’s recommendation 16. [191942]
Meg Hillier: We will shortly be reviewing our response to all of the recommendations in this Animal Procedures Committee report, including recommendation 16, and will aim to publish our further conclusions when we publish the Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals 2007.
Animal Welfare
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which of her Department's advisory non-departmental public bodies have specialists in animal welfare on their boards. [193110]
Meg Hillier: The Animal Procedures Committee is the only Home Office advisory non-departmental public body that includes specialist animal welfare representatives.
Biometrics
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the statement on page 19 of the strategic action plan for the national identity scheme, 20 December 2006, that the introduction of iris biometrics remained an option, whether iris biometrics will be recorded and stored on the national identity register. [192624]
Meg Hillier: Iris biometrics will not be recorded on the national identity register when the scheme starts. However, it remains an option that we will continue to review as the scheme progresses.
Crime: Cambridgeshire
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) crimes, (b) violent crimes, (c) robbery offences, (d) burglary offences, (e) criminal damage offences and (f) drug offences were recorded in (i) Cambridgeshire, (ii) Cumbria, (iii) Devon and Cornwall, (iv) Durham, (v) Dyfed-Powys, (vi) Gloucestershire, (vii) Lincolnshire, (viii) Norfolk, (ix) North Yorkshire, (x) North Wales, (xi) West Mercia and (xii) Wiltshire in each of the last nine years. [192454]
Mr. Coaker: The available information is given in the following table.
A number of changes have been made to recorded crime in response to suggestions in the two reviews of crime statistics. Once such change is that the term ‘violent crime’ is no longer used in connection with the recorded crime statistics and we now provide figures for violence against the person.
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