Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what information is held by Ofgem on (a) the location of households who have had cavity wall installations under the Energy Company Obligation Scheme and (b) which companies have funded each such installation.
Answered by Amber Rudd
Ofgem holds information relating to a) the address at which a measure is installed, and b) the energy company that funded a measure, for all measures notified to it under the Energy Companies Obligation. The following document lists all the information provided by energy companies to Ofgem for each notified ECO measure:
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-and-updates/eco-notification-data-dictionary-v1.3.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, with reference to the debate on Cavity Wall Insulation of 3 February 2015, Official Report, columns 3-6WH, what steps he has taken to identify information held on householders whose cavity wall installations were carried out under the Carbon Emission Reduction Target and the Community Energy Saving Programme.
Answered by Amber Rudd
I have instructed DECC officials to explore the proposals raised at the Westminster Hall debate on 3 February 2015 with Ofgem (who administer ECO) and the Cavity Insulation Guarantee Agency (CIGA), who provide commercial guarantees for Cavity Wall Insulation.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the average unit costs of (a) the face value of student loans, (b) the resource costs of student loans, (c) teaching grants through the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (d) maintenance grant and (e) access spending by institutions in respect of additional students entering higher education in 2014-15.
Answered by Greg Clark
Additional entrants to higher education in 2014-15 are funded on the same basis as other students. A summary of the average unit costs for students on the 2012 funding arrangements can be found in the Fiscal Sustainability Report published by the Office for Budget Responsibility in July 2014 (Table B.1, page 170).
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a level 4 apprenticeship in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Nick Boles
Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts in England by Level and Parliamentary Constituency is attached.
Although level 4 and 5 apprenticeships were available in all three years, level 6 and 7 apprenticeships were only enabled by legislation from April 2013. Official apprenticeship data provides complete information for government-funded apprenticeships and this shows that there were no starts on the four available level 6 apprenticeships during the 2013/14 academic year.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a level 5 apprenticeship in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Nick Boles
Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts in England by Level and Parliamentary Constituency is attached.
Although level 4 and 5 apprenticeships were available in all three years, level 6 and 7 apprenticeships were only enabled by legislation from April 2013. Official apprenticeship data provides complete information for government-funded apprenticeships and this shows that there were no starts on the four available level 6 apprenticeships during the 2013/14 academic year.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students started a level 6 apprenticeship in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2012-13 and (c) 2011-12 in each parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Nick Boles
Information on the number of Higher Apprenticeship starts in England by Level and Parliamentary Constituency is attached.
Although level 4 and 5 apprenticeships were available in all three years, level 6 and 7 apprenticeships were only enabled by legislation from April 2013. Official apprenticeship data provides complete information for government-funded apprenticeships and this shows that there were no starts on the four available level 6 apprenticeships during the 2013/14 academic year.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the additional costs of (a) the face value of student loans, (b) the resource costs of student loans, (c) teaching grant through the Higher Education Funding Council for England, (d) maintenance grant that will arise from the removal of the cap on student numbers.
Answered by Greg Clark
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent estimate he has made of the number of additional students that will enter higher education in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17 and (c) 2017-18 as a result of the removal of the cap on student numbers.
Answered by Greg Clark
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many additional students entered higher education in 2014-15 as a result of the increase in the cap on student numbers announced in the 2014 Autumn Statement.
Answered by Greg Clark
Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. https://www.hesa.ac.uk
The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.
Asked by: John Denham (Labour - Southampton, Itchen)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) UK and (ii) other EU students started undergraduate higher education courses in England in (A) 2013-14 and (B) 2014-15.
Answered by Greg Clark
Statistics on the number of students starting higher education courses in academic year 2013/14 are published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The data can be secured at the following link. https://www.hesa.ac.uk
The Higher Education Statistics Agency will publish data on Higher Education entrants and enrolments for 2014/15 in January 2016.