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Financial Services: Portsmouth
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what his most recent assessment is of the effect on the financial services industry in Portsmouth of the recession; and if he will make a statement. [313073]
Ms Rosie Winterton: At present data are only available for the period to the end of the 2008 calendar year. In 2008 there were some 2,400 people employed in this sector, which represented a 23 per cent. reduction on the 2007 figure.
However, a comparison over this relatively short time period is unlikely to present a comprehensive picture. A clearer indication of the effect of the recession on the financial services sector in Portsmouth will emerge over time, as more information becomes available.
Higher Education: Free School Meals
Tim Loughton: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many and what percentage of pupils (a) eligible and (b) not eligible for free school meals progressed to (i) a university and (ii) a Russell Group university in (A) 1997 and (B) the most recent year for which figures are available. [311211]
Mr. Lammy [holding answer 15 January 2010]: The figures in the table show pupils who were in English maintained schools and aged 15 at the start of academic years 2001-02 and 2002-03 who progressed to HE by the age of 19 (in 2005-06 and 2006-07 respectively). 2005-06 is the earliest year for which these figures are available.
These figures have been estimated using matched data from the National Pupil Database, the Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record and the Learning and Skills Council Individualised Learner Record. Figures for 2007-08 will be available later this year.
Higher Education: Lincolnshire
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many residents in each electoral ward in (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area attended university in each year since 1997. [315247]
Mr. Lammy: Information is not available at electoral ward level. The numbers of enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions from Cleethorpes Constituency, North East Lincolnshire local authority and North Lincolnshire local authority are provided as an alternative in the following table.
| Enrolments( 1) from Cleethorpes constituency( 2) , North East Lincolnshire local authority( 2) and North Lincolnshire local authority( 2) -UK Higher Education Institutions( 3) | |||
| Academic year | Cleethorpes | North East Lincolnshire | North Lincolnshire |
| (1) Covers undergraduate and postgraduate students of all ages enrolled on full-time and part-time courses. (2) The table does not include enrolments where the constituency or local authority of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid postcode information. (3) Excludes the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of students across the time series. Note: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December and are rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record | |||
Higher Education: Student Numbers
Annette Brooke: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many residents of each constituency in England attended university in the most recent academic year for which figures are available. [314921]
Mr. Lammy: A copy of a table showing the numbers of enrolments at UK higher education institutions from each constituency in England, in the 2008/09 academic year, will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Snow and Ice: Milton Keynes
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the cost to business in (a) Milton Keynes and (b) the UK of the adverse weather conditions of December 2009 and January 2010. [313951]
Ms Rosie Winterton: There are no official estimates at this early stage of local or regional cost to business as a result of the adverse weather but there are indications that some businesses lost trade due to customers being unable to travel or lost output due to staff being unable to attend work.
Students: Finance
Patrick Hall: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (1) how many students eligible for payments from the Student Loans Company are awaiting payment; [311295]
(2) many applications for student loans there were in the 2009-10 academic year; and how many such applications have been approved with full assessment to date; [311297]
(3) how many applications to the Student Loans Company there were in the academic year 2008-09 for student loans. [311362]
Mr. Lammy: In the 2008-09 academic year, there were a total of 956,000 applications for student support for those studying in England.
I am advised by the Student Loans Company (SLC) that the number of applications received as at 31 January 2010 for 2009-10 academic year was 1,026,000. New applications are still being received. Not all applications result in payments as some applicants decide not to proceed for a number of reasons.
Figures on the status of applications for maintenance support and numbers of payments were given in the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Andrew Stunell) on 1 February 2010, Official Report, column 140-42w.
Further information is available on the Student Loans Company (SLC) website:
Mr. Sanders:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students in higher education have received payments in respect of (a) tuition fee loans, (b)
maintenance loans, (c) grants for living costs, (d) bursaries and scholarships and (e) extra help for students with children or adult dependants from his Department in (i) Torbay constituency, (ii) the South West and (iii) England in each of the last three years; and what the total monetary value was of each such type of payment in each area in each such year. [314214]
Mr. Lammy: The information is as follows:
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