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Plymouth College of Art and Design
Riverside College Halton
Rotherham College of Arts and Technology
Ruskin College
The Sheffield College
The Solihull College
South Thames College
South Tyneside College
Southampton City College
Sparsholt College, Hampshire
St. Helens College
Stockport College
Swindon College
Trafford College
Tyne Metropolitan College
Wakefield College
Walsall College
Warwickshire College
West Nottinghamshire College
Westminster Kingsway College
Wigan and Leigh College
Wiltshire College
Wirral Metropolitan College
Worcester College of Technology
York College
Higher Education: Student Numbers
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people have (a) applied for and (b) been awarded a university place to start in January 2010. [303169]
Mr. Lammy: The information is not currently available.
Learning and Skills Council for England: Correspondence
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills with reference to the answer of 9 November 2009, Official Report, column 172W, on the Learning and Skills Council for England: correspondence, if he will request the Learning and Skills Council to send to the Official Report for publication copies of letters sent to hon. Members in response to parliamentary questions. [300685]
Kevin Brennan: I can confirm that letters from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) responding to parliamentary questions should always be placed promptly in the House of Commons Library. I can also confirm that we are reviewing our processes to ensure that as a matter of course, copies of such replies are also published in the Official Report.
Legislative Reform Orders
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many Legislative Reform Orders have come into force since the entry into force of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. [303751]
Ian Lucas: 10 Legislative Reform Orders have come into force since the entry into the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. A further four have been laid before Parliament and are currently under scrutiny.
Mr. Ellwood: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the average period between the laying before the House of a proposal for a Legislative Reform Order and the enactment of the order has been since the entry into force of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006. [303752]
Ian Lucas: The average period between laying a Legislative Reform Order before the House and the enactment of the order since the entry into force of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 is approximately 4.5 months.
The average is somewhat skewed by The Legislative Reform (Local Authority Consent Requirements) (England and Wales) Order 2008, which took 15 months. Typically the period is just over three months.
National Investment Corporation
Dr. Cable: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) what timetable has been set for the establishment of the National Investment Corporation; [300286]
(2) what funding has been allocated for the National Investment Corporation; and from which budget such funding will be drawn. [300287]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Further details of the National Investment Corporation will be announced by the time of the pre-Budget report.
Redundancy
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what mechanisms are in place to protect the rights of employees who are likely to be made redundant; and what plans he has for the future of such mechanisms. [303867]
Mr. McFadden: Employees facing redundancy have a number of important protections, including rights to prior consultation in the case of larger scale redundancies and a right to redundancy pay, subject to length of service. The redundancy selection process must be fair and the redundancies must be genuine. Where an employee feels that this is not the case they can make a complaint to an employment tribunal.
Regional Development Agencies: Recruitment
Philip Davies: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much has been spent on recruitment consultants in respect of the appointment of a chairman for (a) Yorkshire Forward and (b) One North East. [301343]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The contract with the search consultants covers a number of chair appointments which the Department has been asked to fill and is not broken down for each post. I am therefore unable to provide this information.
Research: Government Assistance
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much Government funding has been allocated to (a) scientific and (b) engineering research in each year since 1996-97. [301735]
Mr. Lammy: Science and Research Budget allocations, including funding for engineering research, will have increased from £1.3 billion in 1996-1997 to £3.9 billion in 2010-11. The following table sets out the allocation for each year. It is not possible from the classifications of the Science and Research Budget to provide an overall total for engineering research, however, the table also sets out the allocation for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for each year.
| Science and research budget allocations from 1996-97 to 2010-11 | ||
| £000 | ||
| EPSRC | Total science and research budget | |
The Allocations of the Science and Research Budget 2008-09 to 2010-11, available in the House Library, provides further details of the purpose and destination of science funding over the current Spending Review Period at:
Science and Technology Council: Public Relations
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments the Science and Technology Council has made to Edelman in each of the last three years; for what purposes; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract under which such payments have been made. [302305]
Mr. Lammy: STFC's spending with Edelman for a variety of support on stakeholder communications has been:
| £ | |
STFC's contracts with commercial organisations are subject to commercial confidentiality and cannot therefore be placed in the Library.
South East England Development Agency: Public Relations
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what payments the South East England Development Agency has made to Edelman in each of the last three years; for what purpose; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the contract under which such payments have been made. [302298]
Ms Rosie Winterton: SEEDA has made one payment of £4,761 in May to Edelman, for training of Senior Staff, in preparation to give evidence before the House of Commons South East Regional Committee. There was no contract as SEEDA purchased Edelman's service under its Standard Terms and Conditions, a copy of which can be downloaded from the SEEDA website:
Students: Disabled
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many disabled students have (a) applied for and (b) received disabled students allowance for the academic year 2009-10. [300821]
Mr. Lammy: As at 22 November, 15,371 applications for disabled students' allowances had been received; 95 per cent. of those had passed the initial processing stage. 9,321 were awaiting further information, either from the specialists who assess the type and level of support to be provided to the student, or from the student themselves. 3,334 applications had been approved and the student informed; the remainder were either ineligible or under active consideration by Student Finance England.
Students: Loans
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate has been made of the (a) number and (b) monetary value of emergency loans made by universities to students as a result of the time taken to process applications for student loans in the last 12 months. [302887]
Mr. Lammy: It is not possible to estimate the number or monetary value of loans made by universities from the Access to Learning Fund (ALF).
The Fund, which is made available by the Government and stands at £45 million for academic year 2009/10, is administered by the universities which make their own decisions on how best to use their ALF allocation, including whether or not to make short-term loans for whatever reason.
Stephen Williams: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of eligible students took out (a) a maintenance loan only, (b) a tuition fees loan only and (c) loans for maintenance and tuition from the Student Loans Company in the most recent academic year for which figures are available. [303304]
Mr. Lammy: In Academic Year 2007-08 it is estimated that around 80 per cent. of eligible students took out a maintenance loan. No estimate is available for tuition fee loans.
Students: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Jim Cousins: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people from Newcastle-upon-Tyne became full-time undergraduate students in each year from 2002-03 to 2007-08; and how many such people (a) were from each socio-economic group and (b) had parents from each socio-economic group. [302458]
Mr. Lammy: The latest available information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency is shown in the following table.
Figures are provided for full-time undergraduate entrants aged under 21, and 21 and over, as data on socio-economic class is gathered on a different basis for these two distinct age groups. Socio-economic class is derived from information on occupation: for entrants aged under
21 this is based on the occupation of their parent, and for those aged 21 and over it is based on their own occupation.
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