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| Unit of assessment | HEFCE r esearch funding for 2009-10 (£) |
Higher Education: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of 18 to 25-year-olds resident in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point was in higher education (i) in 1997 and (ii) on the latest date for which information is available. [280456]
Mr. Lammy: The Government do not collect data on the number of adults resident in a particular area who are not in higher education, so it is not possible to calculate the proportion of 18 to 25-year-olds from Essex local authority and Castle Point constituency who were in higher education in 1997 and the latest date for which information is available.
The numbers of 18 to 25-year-old students from Essex and Castle Point who were enrolled in higher education are shown as an alternative in the table. Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available in January 2010.
| 18-25 year old Enrolments( 1) from Essex local authority( 2) and Castle Point parliamentary constituency( 2)( : ) UK higher education institutions academic years 1997-98 and 2007-08 | ||
| 1997-98 | 2007-08 | |
| (1) Covers undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled on full-time and part-time courses. (2) Local authority and parliamentary constituency are defined by full and valid home postcodes recorded on the HESA student record. Notes: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December and are rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). | ||
Members: Correspondence
Bob Spink: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he plans to reply to the letter of 19 May 2009 from the hon. Member for Castle Point, on his constituent, Mrs Hilton. [279299]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 12 June 2009]: I apologise to the hon. Member for the delay in responding, this is unacceptable and the hon. Member will receive a response shortly.
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Technology plans to reply to the email from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire, dated 15 April 2009, on broadband for pensioners. [279441]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 12 June 2009]: My colleague the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communications, Broadcasting and Technology responded to the hon. Member on 11 June. I apologise for the delay which was caused by the current high volumes of correspondence.
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Small Business plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire, dated 21 April 2009, on Royal Worcester porcelain. [279442]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 12 June 2009]: My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Economic Competitiveness, Small Business and Enterprise apologises for the delay in responding. This is unacceptable and the hon. Member will receive a response shortly
Mr. Winnick: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Walsall North of 7 May 2009 on BWB Consulting Ltd. [279841]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 15 June 2009]: I apologise to my hon. Friend for the delay in responding. This is unacceptable and we will respond shortly.
Mr. Baron: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when he expects to respond to the hon. Member for Billericay’s letter of 21 April 2009 on Visteon, transferred to his Department by the Department for Work and Pensions. [280250]
Mr. McFadden [holding answer 16 June 2009]: I apologise to the hon. Member for the delay in responding. My hon. Friend the Minister for Business and Regulatory Reform will respond shortly.
Minimum Wage: Telephone Services
David Taylor: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish the tender document for the contract for the national minimum wage helpline. [278877]
Mr. McFadden: The helpline service—known as the Pay and Work Rights line—was procured using the COI’s Framework Agreement for Direct and Relationship Marketing Services. COI issued the invitation to tender to run the service to selected companies on its roster of pre-qualified helpline providers. The COI regards the tender documentation as commercially confidential.
Overseas Students: Russia
Keith Vaz: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many Russian nationals were enrolled on (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate courses at educational institutions in (i) London and (ii) England at the latest date for which figures are available. [279207]
Mr. Lammy: The latest information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is shown in the table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010.
| Russian national enrolments by Government office region of institution—English higher education institutions—academic year 2007/08 | ||
| Level of study | English HEIs | Of which: London HEIs |
| Note: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). | ||
Research Councils: Finance
Adam Afriyie: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much in (a) compensation for foreign exchange exposure, (b) loans and (c) other funding his Department has provided for the research councils in addition to the allocations in the 2007 science budget. [278469]
Mr. Lammy [holding answer 12 June 2009]: The CSR 2007 allocations to the Research Councils’ out of the science and research budget were published in December 2007. Since then there have been additions to the Research Councils’ allocations as set out as follows.
| (a) Table 1: Additional funding to Research Councils in respect of the extra costs of international subscriptions arising from exchange rate changes | |
| Total (£000) | |
| (b ) Table 2: Temporary loans to Research Councils | |
| Total (£000) | |
| Note: The loans were made on the condition that they are repaid by the end of CSR 2007. | |
| (c) Table 3: Other funding — additional capital allocations to Research Councils in respect of approved new large facilities projects | |
| Total (£000) | |
Vocational Training
Stephen Hammond: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many under 25-year-olds will receive (a) jobs and (b) training in the logistics sector under the scheme announced in the Budget 2009; [276147]
(2) how many under 25-year-olds will receive (a) jobs and (b) training under the scheme announced in the Budget 2009. [276149]
Jim Knight: I have been asked to reply.
Under the scheme announced in the Budget, every young person will be offered up to six months work, training or work experience.
We anticipate creating up to 150,000 new jobs through the Future Jobs Fund, providing at least 100,000 jobs for young people and a significant proportion in areas of high unemployment.
As well as the Jobs Fund, Jobcentre Plus will work with growth sectors to help up to 100,000 long-term unemployed young people access existing jobs in key employment sectors.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Learning and Skills Council will be able to offer more than 80,000 training places for young adults who have been unemployed for more than 12 months. We are not yet in a position to be able to predict which sectors jobs and training will be in.
Written Answers to Questions
Monday 22 June 2009
Leader of the House
Departmental Data Protection
Mr. Blunt: To ask the Leader of the House how many breaches of information security there have been in her Office in the last five years. [281091]
Barbara Keeley: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer that will be given by the Cabinet Office.
The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons joined the Cabinet Office in 2007. It would not be possible to provide information prior to 2007 without incurring a disproportionate cost.
Members: Misconduct
Mr. Drew: To ask the Leader of the House if she will bring forward proposals to provide for (a) (i) the suspension from the House and (ii) the dismissal from the House of hon. Members found to have committed serious misdemeanours and (b) a vote in the constituencies of such hon. Members to determine whether they should keep their seats in such cases; and if she will make a statement. [281785]
Barbara Keeley: The Government will bring forward proposals for a new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority soon.
Public Consultations
Grant Shapps: To ask the Leader of the House how many public consultations have been conducted by her Office since 27 June 2007; what the title of each has been; how many responses to each consultation were received; and what estimate has been made of the total cost incurred for each consultation. [280911]
Barbara Keeley: The Office of the Leader of the House of Commons has conducted two public consultations since 27 June 2007.
A consultation on “The Governance of Britain—The Government’s Draft Legislative Programme” began in July 2007. Around 250 individuals, representing a wide variety of organisations and stakeholders, attended a number of events around the country as part of this consultation. The main consultation event was a public engagement led by Ipsos Mori that cost £54,946.06. Responses to the consultation were also received in both letter and e-mail format. Figures are not available on the cost of publication.
The second public consultation began in May 2008 and was entitled “Preparing Britain for the Future—The Government’s Draft Legislative Programme” which cost £32,035 to publish. The cost of the consultation exercise for this programme was £30,922.38.
This programme received the views of around 2,000 people and organisations. These comprised 751 responses to the Leader of the House of Commons’ website, at least 1,200 people and organisations who participated in the 58 regional events and 44 individuals and 58 organisations who responded by post.
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