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Departmental Databases

Answer

The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) was created by the Prime Minister on 28 June 2007.As far as we are aware, we believe the following represents databases that are owned/maintained by the Department or its agencies.

Database name	Owned	Maintained
DIUS
UK Innovation Survey (UK Part of Community Innovation)	Research Base/SIA	SIA/ONS
Certex (Certificate of Experience)	DIUS	ECCTIS Ltd.
Section 97	DIUS	DIUS
Student Loan Business Service (SLBS)¹	DIUS	HMRC
Centre for Revenue Intelligence Images²	DIUS	HMRC
East Kilbride Student Loans Unit (EKSLU) Offline Management Tools³	DIUS	HMRC
UK Intellectual Property Office
Trade Marks Register	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
Patents Register	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
Designs Register	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
Human Resources	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
Financial Information	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
IP Crime Information	UK-IPO	UK-IPO
National Weights and Measures Laboratory
Goldmine Contact Database	NWML	NWML
NWML internet site information database	NWML	NWML
NWML intranet site information database	LNWML	NWML
ROMS internet site information and inquiry database	ROHS Section, NWML	ROHS Section, NWML
Trakker Enquiry Database	NWML	NWML
SUN finance database	Finance Dept, NWML	Finance Dept, NWML
Nortel phone system database	Records Dept, NWML	Records Dept, NWML
Central Time work recording database	NWML	NWML
Calibration Automatic Weighing system database	Calibration section, NWML	Calibration section, NWML
Projects Handler database	Type and Test dept.	Type and Test dept.
Local Authority Data	Enforcement dept.	Enforcement dept.
Lifelong Learning UK
Staff Individualised Records	LLUK	LLUK
Institute for Learning
Teacher Professional Registrations	IfL	IfL
Quality Improvement Agency
Internal QIA—HR Databases	QIA	Yes
HR Management Statistics
Recruitment Database
Monthly payroll reports
Performance Review Database
Training Records Database
Personal Details Database
Sickness Absence Database
Employees Contracts Database
Probationary Reviews Database
QIA Programme Specific Databases	QIA	Yes
STARs
STAR 2007: nomination details
STAR 2007: Beacon shortlisted nominations
STAR 2007: short and long-listed nominations (including citations)
STAR 20007: shortlisted (including winners and highly commended
High Quality Managers. High Quality managers: Cohorts 1 and 2	QIA	Yes
High Quality Managers; Equality and diversity information
QIA Research. QIA R and D Suppliers Register—approved suppliers	QIA	Yes
Student Loans Company (SLC)
CLASS Customer demographic details, applications, loan accounts and financial transactions: payments and repayments. Customer associated third party names and addresses	SLC	Authorised SLC staff, Third party authorised users e.g. Resource Handling Limited (External company dealing with call centre overflow)
Protocol Customer demographic details and applications. Sponsor demographic details and financial information	SLC	Authorised Local Authority personnel, customer self service, Authorised SLC staff
HEI database. HEI details, course, term data and fee amounts	SLC	Authorised SLC staff
Tallyman. Customers in arrears, or Trace	SLC	Authorised SLC staff
Hunter. Fraud detection and management database	SLC	Authorised SLC staff
Caseflow. Customers in Litigation	SLC	Authorised SLC staff
Loan Servicing System (LSS). Archive data pre-1997. Used in litigation cases	SLC	Authorised SLC staff
Data Warehouse. Historical and recent trend analysis for Customer Financial Transactions plus HE and FE application details	SLC	Authorised SLC, LA and DIUS staff
Foundation Degree Forward (fdf)
Foundation degree course listings4	fdf	fdf
¹ The Student Loans Business Service holds the information on customers(graduates) who have entered repayment.
² This system holds information on new customers (i.e. new graduates) into the repayments system who have failed to match up to an employer using existing national insurance numbers.
³ This system is an Access database which allows for sifting of all the information held on SLBS, which is limited in its scope. The EKSLU Offline Management Tools allow the prioritisation and management of student loan repayment cases.
4 part of fdf's official website listing Foundation degree courses by subject area, region, institution or keyword. As well as the course title, it shows both the validating HE Institution and delivering institution.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

185425; 472 c1294-6W

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Databases Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Link

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