The National Measurement Office spends very little on advertising and such expenditure is not separately identified in our accounting system. In practice, the principal use of advertising would be for recruitment purposes. Any paid advertising of the Agency or its services would be recorded as part of our marketing expenditure, in the Calendar Year 2009 expenditure on external recruitment advertising in total was £11,852.50 and expenditure on marketing activities as a whole was £12,990.42.
Directgov
John Penrose:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what progress his Department has made on the development of a new consumer space for direct.gov.uk; and when he expects it to be launched. [318520]
Kevin Brennan:
A new consumer area on the Directgov website was launched on 16 December 2009 and is accessible at www.direct.gov.uk/consumer . This brings together, in one place, information from BIS and a number of other Departments on consumer rights, with signposts to further guidance on DirectGov such as managing debt, buying and selling a vehicle and environmental advice.
Over the next 12 months, BIS will be working with other Government Departments and partner organisations to enhance this area further with consumer content from across Government, including self-help tools and templates.
Economic Participation Programme
Mr. Stewart Jackson:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will monitor the efficacy of the Economic Participation Programme operated under the auspices of the East of England Development Agency; and if he will make a statement. [318200]
Ms Rosie Winterton:
The Economic Participation Programme is a matter for both the Board of the East of England Development Agency (EEDA), as an arm's length non-departmental public body, and the local authorities that EEDA contract with for the delivery of the sub-regional elements of the programme. An evaluation of the programme, previously known as "Investing in Communities", was undertaken in 2008 as part of an overall EEDA evaluation and a copy has been placed in the Libraries of the House. This evaluation identified that between 2005 and 2008:
825 jobs were created; 5,862 people assisted into employment; 92 businesses created; and over 12,800 new skills or qualifications acquired.
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Innovation
Greg Mulholland:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what the rate of growth of knowledge-intensive industries was in (a) rural areas, (b) urban areas and (c) nationally in each year since 1997. [318426]
Ian Lucas:
Gross value added in knowledge-intensive industries and the associated year on year growth for the UK as a whole is detailed in the table below. This corresponds to an annual average growth rate of 5.8 per cent. per annum. Data on a rural versus urban basis are not available.
Gross value added in knowledge-intensive industries (Constant 2000 prices (£ billion)
Percentage growth on previous year
1996
178.8
-
1997
192.6
7.7
1998
211.2
9.7
1999
227.7
7.8
2000
248.0
8.9
2001
259.4
4.6
2002
256.8
-1.0
2003
267.7
4.3
2004
280.9
4.9
2005
294.3
4.7
2006
312.3
6.1
2007
331.3
6.1
Source:
OECD STAN database
Students
Greg Mulholland:
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students from each UK university have attended a Make it Happen event held by their university in association with his Department; and how many such students have since enrolled on the self-employment and business start-up programme. [316924]
Mr. Lammy:
The Make it Happen programme is aimed primarily at unemployed graduates, however, students-especially final year students-are not discouraged from attending a Make it Happen event.
The table attached shows the number of graduates and students from each UK university that have attended one of the Make It Happen events at any convenient university and the number of graduates and students who have registered for the subsequent self employment and business start up programmes from their first availability on 24 September 2009 to 10 February 2010.
Table to show the number of students and graduates from each UK university that have attended a Make it Happen event and the number of students and graduates who have registered for the self-employment and business start-up programmes.
University
Attended MIH Event
Registered for the SE/BSU programme
Students
Graduates
Students
Graduates
TOTAL
452
1087
148
230
Aberystwyth, University of Wales
2
4
1
1
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Anglia Ruskin
0
3
0
0
Aston University
6
18
0
0
Bangor, University of Wales
0
1
0
1
Bedfordshire (Uni of Luton), Uni of Bedfordshire
0
3
0
2
Birkbeck, University of London
2
2
0
1
Birmingham City University
4
13
0
0
Bournemouth University
6
40
6
38
Brunel University
5
8
2
1
Buckinghamshire (Bucks) New University
1
0
1
0
Cardiff University
0
4
0
0
City University, London
1
3
0
0
Coventry University
17
10
1
0
Cranfield University
1
3
0
0
De Montfort University (Leicester)
1
6
1
1
Edge Hill University
0
2
0
0
Falmouth, University College
8
4
8
4
Goldsmiths College, University of London
0
6
0
1
Grimsby Institute of Higher and Further Education
0
2
0
0
Heriot Watt University
0
1
0
0
Imperial College London
7
9
0
1
Keele University
0
2
0
0
King's College, University of London
3
5
0
0
Kingston
31
24
31
14
Lancaster University
0
5
0
1
Leeds Metropolitan University
19
16
15
7
Liverpool Hope University
3
2
0
0
Liverpool John Moores University
0
8
0
2
London Metropolitan University
2
21
0
4
London School of Economics and Political Science
1
4
0
0
London South Bank
0
8
0
0
Loughborough University
0
7
0
1
Manchester Metropolitan University
13
26
1
2
Middlesex University
3
6
3
1
Newcastle University
0
5
0
0
Newman College of Higher Education
1
0
0
0
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Nottingham Trent University
1
4
0
0
Open University London
0
8
0
0
Oxford Brookes University
35
13
0
0
Queen Mary, University of London
2
8
1
1
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication
0
1
0
1
Robert Gordon University
0
1
0
0
Roehampton University
1
4
1
1
Royal Holloway, University of London
4
1
4
0
Royal Veterinary College, University of London
0
1
0
0
Sheffield Hallam University
27
27
1
3
Southampton Solent University
2
3
2
3
Staffordshire University
0
4
0
1
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, University College
0
3
0
2
Swansea University
0
2
0
0
Thames Valley University
1
5
1
3
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
0
2
0
0
The Open University
1
1
1
0
Trinity and All Saints College (Leeds)
0
3
0
2
University College for the Creative Arts
2
12
0
4
University College London, University of London
7
7
0
2
University of Aberdeen
1
0
0
0
University of Bath
0
6
0
0
University of Birmingham
4
7
0
0
University of Bolton
9
34
8
31
University of Bradford
2
9
0
4
University of Brighton
18
12
17
10
University of Bristol
0
4
0
1
University of Cambridge
0
4
0
0
University of Central Lancashire
2
13
0
0
University of Chester
0
2
0
0
University of Chichester
0
1
0
0
University of Cumbria
0
1
0
0
University of Derby
17
8
2
1
University of Durham
0
6
0
1
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University of East Anglia
0
1
0
0
University of East London
0
6
0
3
University of Edinburgh
0
2
0
0
University of Essex
0
3
0
1
University of Exeter
3
3
3
1
University of Exeter (Cornwall)
1
0
1
2
University of Glamorgan
0
1
0
0
University of Glasgow
0
1
0
0
University of Gloucestershire
0
2
0
1
University of Greenwich
5
14
0
4
University of Hertfordshire
0
3
0
0
University of Huddersfield
1
6
0
3
University of Hull
1
13
0
3
University of Kent
1
6
0
3
University of Leeds
21
16
3
4
University of Leicester
1
3
0
1
University of Lincoln
10
36
0
2
University of Liverpool
11
13
0
0
University of London
2
3
0
0
University of Manchester
16
19
1
0
University of Northampton
0
3
0
1
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
1
2
0
0
University of Nottingham
10
17
1
3
University of Oxford
0
8
0
1
University of Plymouth
8
9
8
7
University of Portsmouth
14
13
14
10
University of Reading
3
2
3
1
University of Salford
5
11
0
0
University of Sheffield
2
15
0
0
University of Southampton
1
2
1
1
University of St Andrews
0
2
0
1
University of Sunderland
0
3
0
1
University of Surrey - Guildford
26
5
1
1
University of Sussex
2
2
2
1
University of Teesside
1
2
0
1
University of the Arts - Camberwell College of the Arts
0
1
0
0
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University of the Arts - Central St. Martins
0
3
0
0
University of the Arts - London College of Fashion
0
2
0
1
University of the Arts - London School of Communications
