Speech in General Committees - Wed 08 May 2019
Draft Higher Education (Monetary Penalties and Refusal to Renew an Access and Participation Plan) (England) Regulations 2019
"It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hosie, and to discuss and debate the regulations. The Minister and I may have some sense of déjà vu because we were in this exact room at the exact same time last week. However, this is a case of …..."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 08 May 2019
Draft Higher Education (Monetary Penalties and Refusal to Renew an Access and Participation Plan) (England) Regulations 2019
"I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his observations, with which I absolutely agree. I also agree with the revisiting to which he refers. I have had conversations—I am sure the Minister has had similar conversations—with the Office for Students about the issues around adult students and how we deal …..."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 08 May 2019
Draft Higher Education (Monetary Penalties and Refusal to Renew an Access and Participation Plan) (England) Regulations 2019
"The Minister is being extremely helpful, and I do not wish to detain him from being so, but he referred to the report being published. Does that mean that it will be published for public or stakeholder perusal before the Government give their response?..."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 01 May 2019
Higher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019
"I beg to move,
That the Committee has considered the Higher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019, No. 543).
It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies, and to introduce this debate. Having prayed against the regulations, we are glad to finally have a …..."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 01 May 2019
Higher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 01 May 2019
Higher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019
"It is nothing to do with the regulations...."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Speech in General Committees - Wed 01 May 2019
Higher Education (Registration Fees) (England) Regulations 2019
"As I have observed, and as my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham, who has just spoken, has observed, today’s debate concerns registration fees and their implementation. While I have considerable respect for the Minister, as he knows, I have seldom heard such an inadequate response to a …..."Gordon Marsden - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 24th April 2019
Asked by:
Gordon Marsden (Labour - Blackpool South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on European Research Council grants for UK researchers between June 2016 and March 2019 of the UK leaving the EU.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The table below outlines the number of awarded European Research Council grants in the UK since 2016.
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Starting Grant | 66 | 75 | 66 |
Consolidator Grant | 60 | 59 | 55 |
Advanced Grant | 41 | 65 | 47 |
Proof of Concept Grant | 30 | 27 | 31 |
Synergy Grant | - | - | 3 |
Total | 197 | 226 | 202 |
Further information can be found at https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/statistics.
Written Question
Wednesday 24th April 2019
Asked by:
Gordon Marsden (Labour - Blackpool South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with the (a) British Academy, (b) Royal Society and (c) Wellcome Trust on the effect on British academics of being able to participate in joint bids with EU colleagues for future European Research Council grants as a result of the extension to Article 50.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
BEIS regularly engages with stakeholders in the science, research and innovation community on the impact of EU exit on British academics.
This includes with the British Academy, Royal Society and Wellcome Trust through the High Level stakeholder working group on EU Exit, universities, research and innovation, chaired by the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation.
Written Question
Wednesday 24th April 2019
Asked by:
Gordon Marsden (Labour - Blackpool South)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with (a) Universities UK, (b) UK Research and Innovation, (c) Office for Students on whether the UK will participate in the Horizon Europe scheme from 2021 following the extension to Article 50.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
I chair a High Level stakeholder group on EU Exit. This group meets monthly to discuss EU Exit issues related to universities, research and innovation and is attended by a wide range of stakeholders including Universities UK, UK Research and Innovation and Office for Students.
Horizon Europe is still being negotiated through the EU Institutions, but we have been clear that we would like the option to associate to the Programme. Further details on Horizon Europe need to be finalised before we can make an informed decision on future UK participation.
In any scenario, the Government remains committed to continuing to back UK researchers and innovators by supporting measures to enable world-class collaborative research.