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Energy and Climate Change Unit

Gregory Barker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the aims and objectives are of his Department's Energy and Climate Change Unit. [304473]

Mr. McFadden: The Low Carbon Business Opportunities Unit and the Energy and Climate Change Unit in BIS have now joined together to form the Low Carbon Business Team. The Low Carbon Business Team aims to capture the economic and industrial opportunities for the UK from the global shift towards a Low Carbon economy and ensure the views of UK business are properly taken into account in the development of policies across Whitehall. They will be working together, taking a strategic approach to ensure industry is in a position to capitalise on business opportunities arising from the transition to a low-carbon economy.

EU Law

Gregory Barker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) statutory instruments and (b) other regulations to meet obligations arising from EU law his Department has brought forward in the 2005 Parliament. [304171]

Mr. McFadden: Central records of statutory instruments made under specific powers have only been maintained
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by the statutory instruments registrar since 2001. There are no central records maintained of "other regulations". Since that time the Department and its predecessors have made 235 statutory instruments to meet obligations arising from EU Law, under powers contained in the European Communities Act 1972.

Freight

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 982W, on freight, if he will break down by mode of transport the number of road freight companies which have (a) become insolvent, ( b) ceased trading for other reasons and (c) been started up in each of the last 10 years. [306641]

Ian Lucas: Further to the answer of 3 December 2009, in answer to part (a), The Insolvency Service do not currently collect or maintain a record of figures at the level of detail below "Land Transport". The figures provided in the answer of the 3 December are the most detailed available to answer part (a).

At the most detailed level of classification, the "freight transport by road" industry is identifiable. However, it is not possible to distinguish the mode of transport within this standard industrial classification.

Responsibility for statistics relating to business start-ups and closures ("births" and "deaths") has moved from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Tables 1 and 2 record statistics received from the ONS in response to (b) and (c) above. These represent those figures which are both readily available and most similar in coverage to the figures for insolvencies, but they should not be treated as being entirely consistent and, in particular, the ONS figures will include some businesses that are not registered companies.

Table 1: (b) Business "deaths" in the land transport industry., England and Wales
6024	Freight transport by road	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	Total	3,365	3,680	3,685	3,490	3,245	3,190	3,085
Note: The population base includes all those businesses which are registered for VAT and/or PAYE, rather than registered companies. Source: ONS

Table 2: (c). Business "births" in the land transport industry, England and Wales
6024	Freight transport by road	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
	Total	3,195	3,375	3,240	3,275	2,825	3,195	2,985
Note: The population base includes all those businesses which are registered for VAT and/or PAYE, rather than registered companies. Source: ONS

Higher Education: Leeds

John Battle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students from Leeds West constituency (a) attended university courses and (b) received student loans to attend university courses in each year since 1996-97. [306599]

Mr. Lammy: The latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on enrolments from Leeds, West parliamentary constituency are shown in the table. Reliable information on student loans received is not available at constituency level.

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Enrolments( 1) from Leeds, West parliamentary constituency UK higher education institutions( 2 ) academic years 1996/97 to 2007/ 08
Academic year	Enrolments
1996/97	1,315
1997/98	1,275
1998/99	1,470
1999/2000	1,505
2000/01	1,510
2001/02	1,520
2002/03	1,585
2003/04	1,635
2004/05	1,730
2005/06	1,830
2006/07	1,835
2007/08	1,825
(1) Covers enrolments to all levels and modes of study. (2 )Excludes the Open University due to inconsistencies in their data across the time series. Note: Figures are based on a snapshot count as at 1 December to maintain consistency across the time series. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

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Higher Education: Lewes

Norman Baker: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people from Lewes constituency became full-time undergraduate students in each year from 2002-03 to 2007-08; and how many such people (a) were from and (b) had parents from each socio-economic group. [306957]

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 are 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.

Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2010.

Full-time undergraduate entrants from Lewes constituency( 1) by age and socio-economic classification( 2) : UK higher education institutions( 3) : academic years 2002/03 to 2007/08
	2002/03		2003/04		2004/05		2005/06		2006/07		2007/08
Socio-economic classification	≤21	21+	≤21	21+	≤21	21+	≤21	21+	≤21	21+	≤21	21+
Higher managerial and professional occupations	75	5	95	10	90	10	100	10	85	5	80	0
Lower managerial and professional occupations	85	25	120	10	105	25	105	15	105	15	100	20
Intermediate occupations	35	10	35	10	45	15	45	5	45	5	35	15
Small employers and own account workers	20	0	30	5	30	5	20	5	30	5	25	5
Lower supervisory and technical occupations	15	0	15	0	15	0	20	0	20	0	15	0
Semi-routine occupations	20	15	25	5	15	20	20	15	15	15	20	10
Routine occupations	5	5	5	5	10	0	10	5	10	5	15	5
Total known	255	60	325	50	310	75	325	50	310	50	285	55
Missing(4)	110	65	50	75	60	55	75	65	75	65	70	90
(1) The table does not include entrants where the constituency of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid information. (2) This field collects the socio-economic classification of students participating in HE if 21 or over at the start of their course or parental classification if under 21. (3) Figures exclude the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series. (4) Covers students whose socio-economic classification was missing, not classified or 'Never worked and long-term unemployed'. Note: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded up or down to the nearest five, therefore components may not sum to totals. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency

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