Government Assistance
(asked on 22nd July 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what requirements there are for delivery partners to monitor the gender of (a) applicants for and (b) recipients of government-backed (i) grants and (ii) loan schemes.
There are a number of grant and loan schemes administered by this Department through delivery partners. Many of these loans and grants are made to a company or organisation and not to named individuals. As such, we do not collect data on gender for these loans and grants. The tables below provide details of specific schemes aimed at individual applicants.
Start Up Loans
Scheme | Number of female applications | Proportion who were female application | Number of female recipients | Proportion who were female recipients |
Start Up Loans (launched September 2012) | 11,526 | 36% | 6914 | 37% |
Start Up Loans (launched September 2012) are delivered by Start Up Loan Company (SuLCo). There is no specific requirement to monitor gender, but monitoring of gender is one of the data streams SuLCo captures to aid in its reporting to government.
Student Loans[1]
Type of Support | No of females awarded loans Academic Year 2008/09 000s | Proportion who were female awarded loans Academic Year 2008/09 | No of females awarded loans Academic Year 2012/13 000s | Proportion who were female awarded loans Academic Year 2012/13 |
Maintenance Grant Awarded | 263.7 | 57% | 302.4 | 54% |
HE Grant Awarded | 15.0 | 51% | 0.0 | 42% |
Adult Dependant Grant Awarded | 3.6 | 43% | 3.8 | 43% |
Childcare Grant Awarded | 9.4 | 91% | 12.8 | 90% |
Parental Learning Allowance Awarded | 27.6 | 80% | 31.8 | 81% |
Travel Grant Awarded | 0.7 | 58% | 1.0 | 56% |
Disabled Students Allowance Paid | 10.9 | 57% | 31.9 | 58% |
Tuition Fee Loan Paid | 362.6 | 54% | 469.9 | 53% |
Maintenance Loan Paid | 419.5 | 54% | 505.5 | 54% |
Student Loans are delivered by Student Loans Company (SLC). There is no requirement to monitor gender. Monitoring focuses on the eligibility criteria which are set out in regulations. Gender is not part of the eligibility criteria.
The data only includes two academic years because providing all five academic years would be of disproportionate cost.
The data only includes those who were “awarded” Student Loans rather than those who “applied” and “received”. This is because students are awarded Student Loans based on eligibility criteria so only those who applied and were eligible have been recorded.
24+ Advanced Learning Loan (24+ALL)*
Academic Year | Number of learners awarded 24+ALL | Number of female learners awarded 24+ALL | Proportion of female learners awarded a 24+ALL | Number of applications for a 24+ALL | Number of female applications for a 24+ALL | Proportion of female applications for a 24+ALL
|
2013/14 Aug 2013 to Apr 2014 | 52,400 | 39,500 | 75% | - | - | - |
2013/14 To end June 2014 | - | - | - | 69,110 | 52,010 | 75% |
2014/15 | - | - | - | 4,760 | 3,680 | 77% |
* Introduced in the 2013/14 Academic Year
In addition, Vocational Education Teaching and Learning funding is outlined in the Skills Funding Statement which sets out the Government’s priorities for the budget. It is for providers to decide how they use funding to reflect those priorities. The Skills Funding Statements 2012-15 and 2013-16 also show in the Data Annex what learning the available funding has supported over the last three years, including a breakdown by gender:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2013-to-2016
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-statement-2012-2015
[1] Excludes Careleavers Grant, Dependants Grant and Lone Parents Grant.