Written questions

Daniel Zeichner

1,768 written questions tabled, most recent first.

16 Apr 2018 · Department for Transport

Bus Services: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of bus drivers have undertaken disability awareness training.

27 Mar 2018 · Ministry of Justice

Courts

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which courts in the UK have been visited by Ministers of his Department since the beginning of the 2018.

15 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Research

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the effect of making efficiencies in the cost of medicines on research investment by the pharmaceutical industry.

15 Mar 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the proportion of expenditure spent by businesses on training.

15 Mar 2018 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Business: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what information his Department holds on whether companies are increasing the training opportunities available for their employees.

15 Mar 2018 · Treasury

Investment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of (a) private and (b) public investment in the economy in each year since 2000; and how that investment compares with other G8 countries.

15 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he will assess the potential merits of introducing a separate assessment process for rare disease medicines that do not meet the criteria set out by the National Institute of Health and Car

14 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of whether further price reductions on innovative branded medicines are necessary given the majority of medicines are capped through the Pharmaceutical Price

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Video Games

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the EU on the UK video games industry.

14 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medicines have been rejected by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence’s Highly Specialised Technology programme because they did not meet the criterion on the number of pati

14 Mar 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Rare Diseases

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans the NHS in England has to adopt the definition of an ultra-rare disease as a condition with a prevalence of 1 in 50,000 or less, as used by the Montgomery Review of Access to Medicines i

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Children: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families, what proportion of the 11 per cent of children in couple-parent families who experience parental conflict are in (a) workless families, (b)

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Work and Pensions

Families: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether any funding from the Reducing Parental Conflict programme will be made available for relationship support services for in-work low-income families in addition to the support for workless familie

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Water: Testing

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many water quality tests the Environment Agency carried out in 2017 compared with the previous seven years.

14 Mar 2018 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Agency: Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many staff were employed by the Environment Agency (a) directly, (b) on a contracted basis and (c) on a subcontracted basis in each of the last eight years.

28 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners: Postnatal Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of GP practices offer a six week postnatal check-up; and what information his Department holds on the take-up of such checks at those practices.

27 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if the Government will take steps to ensure that as part of the transitional arrangement EU students starting courses in English higher education institutions during any agreed implementation period will contin

27 Feb 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Postnatal Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reasons the GP contract includes a postnatal check for babies but not for mothers.

26 Feb 2018 · Home Office

Migrant Workers: Doctors

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of including intensive care medical practitioners in the Immigration Rules Appendix K: Shortage Occupation List.

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Postgraduate Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will take steps to ensure that the interests of postgraduate students are properly reflected in the operations of the (a) Office for Students and (b) UK Research and Innovation.

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has undertaken an assessment of the potential effect of the UK leaving the EU on the ability of universities to attract EU students at (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate levels.

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Education

Overseas Students: EU Nationals

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether EU students starting courses in English higher education institutions in 2019-20 and 2020-21 will be eligible for (a) home fee status and (b) student loans and grants under the current eligibility crite

26 Feb 2018 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Brexit

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to policy paper Draft Text For Discussion: Implementation Period, published by his Department on 21 February 218, what assessment he has made of the effect of the position set ou