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862124

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Children: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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) families where one parent is in work and (c) families where both parents work.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132543
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Of the 11 per cent of children in couple-parent families living with parents who reported experiencing parental conflict in 2015-16:</p><p>(a) 14 per cent were in workless families</p><p>(b) 32 per cent were in families where one parent is in work and the other is not in work</p><p>(c) 54 per cent were in families where both parents work</p><p>These figures are now updated with the Parental Conflict Indicator published on the 22<sup>nd</sup> March 2018.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/03/2018 17:25:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

862123

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Families: Disadvantaged
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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 families set out in Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132542
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>There is clear evidence that frequent, intense and poorly-resolved parental conflict can lead to poorer mental health, wellbeing, educational attainment, and employment outcomes for children.</p><p> </p><p>While children in workless families face triple the risk of exposure to parental conflict compared with children in families where at least one of the adults is working, we recognise that children in some other low-income families would also benefit from support to reduce conflict in their parents’ relationships.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities are best placed to decide which families to support in their areas, and we therefore expect a range of disadvantaged families to be supported through the Reducing Parental Conflict programme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/03/2018 15:25:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

862278

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Drugs: Prices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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 Regulation Scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132697
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) operates by capping overall growth in expenditure on branded medicines within the scope of the scheme. Innovative medicines, defined as those containing a new active substance, have freedom of pricing at launch under the terms of the scheme. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence assesses cost-effectiveness of the medicine and under the terms of the PPRS companies may offer discounts through a patient access scheme in order to secure a cost-effective price.</p><p> </p><p>In order for NHS England to manage affordability of any particular medicine a budget impact test may trigger a further commercial discussion with a company if the cost of the medicine may exceed £20 million in any of the first three years. Taken together these arrangements balance patient access to innovative cost-effective medicines with access to appropriate treatment for all patients, and secure best value for the taxpayer and a clear route to market for companies.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/03/2018 17:16:12 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

862126

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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 patients expected to benefit from the medicine; and what plans he has to increase the figure in that criterion of 500 people affected to reflect population growth.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132545
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Since the start of the Highly Specialised Technology Programme (HST) in 2013, there have been three proposed technologies which did not meet the following criteria:</p><p>- The target patient group for the technology in its licensed indication is so small that treatment will usually be concentrated in very few centres in the National Health Service.</p><p> </p><p>For a technology to be evaluated under the HST programme it is required to meet all seven of the HST topic selection criteria. The population of 500 patients in England is not a number applied in the criteria. Therefore in this context, the population affected by the condition requires expert centres with concentrated expertise and infrastructure to support the condition in question. A strict number is not applied.</p><p> </p><p>If a technology does not meet the criteria for the HST, it is considered for the Technology Appraisals (TA) programme. If the topic selection criteria for a technology appraisal are met, it is then considered through that programme. All three technologies referred to above were referred to the TA programme.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 22/03/2018 17:25:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

862121

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Water: Testing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132540
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Water quality in England has been improving significantly over recent decades: we have the cleanest bathing waters since records began, serious pollution incidents are steadily declining and rivers that were biologically dead are reviving.</p><p> </p><p>In 2017 the Environment Agency (EA) collected 95,202 water samples and tested them for a total of 1,745,242 individual measures of water quality. The table below shows the numbers of samples and tests for the previous seven years.</p><p> </p><p>In this period monitoring activity peaked in 2013 due to extensive water quality investigations required for the first cycle of the Water Framework Directive which informed River Basin Management Plans published in 2015. Since then the EA has refined its monitoring programmes to make them even more targeted, risk based and efficient. For example, the EA has been able to deliver a 20% reduction in monitoring for the bathing water directive as a result of the improvements in water quality secured in recent years and better scientific understanding of quality at each bathing water. Similar approaches are being applied to other monitoring programmes so that the EA can focus its monitoring activity where it is needed to drive improvements and effectively manage pressures on the water environment.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of water samples</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of tests for individual measures of water quality</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>131,838</p></td><td><p>2,510,250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>137,340</p></td><td><p>2,579,323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>155,394</p></td><td><p>2,670,028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>159,964</p></td><td><p>2,755,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>135,392</p></td><td><p>2,262,788</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>122,576</p></td><td><p>2,156,176</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>112,224</p></td><td><p>2,020,475</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 22/03/2018 17:54:34 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

862120

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept id	13
	answering dept short name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	answering dept sort name	Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	hansard heading	Environment Agency: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	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.
	tabling member constituency	Cambridge
	tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
	uin	132539
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of staff employed by the Environment Agency (a) directly and (b) on a contracted basis at 31 March in each of the last eight years. Numbers of subcontracted staff are not recorded centrally.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Year</strong> <strong>(April – March)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(a) Directly</strong></p></td><td colspan="2"><p><strong>(b) Contracted Basis</strong></p></td><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Employees</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Environment Agency Staff</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Contractors</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>11,690</p></td><td><p>217</p></td><td><p>135</p></td><td><p>12,042</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>11,471</p></td><td><p>554</p></td><td><p>142</p></td><td><p>12,167</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>12,295</p></td><td><p>542</p></td><td><p>241</p></td><td><p>13,078</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>10,758</p></td><td><p>225</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>11,102 <sup>1</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>10,248</p></td><td><p>357</p></td><td><p>158</p></td><td><p>10,763</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>10,249</p></td><td><p>283</p></td><td><p>406</p></td><td><p>10,938</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>10,706</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>639</p></td><td><p>11,535 <sup>2</sup></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>10,019</p></td><td><p>231</p></td><td><p>336</p></td><td><p>10,586 <sup>3</sup></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><sup>1 </sup>Creation of Natural Resources Wales, 1 April 2013.</p><p> </p><p><sup>2 </sup>Digital, Data and Technology Services requirement increased resulting in higher use of contractors. Recruitment into Flood and Coastal Risk Management following winter 2015/16 flooding and receipt of additional funding.</p><p><sup> </sup></p><p><sup>3 </sup>Transfer of Corporate Services staff (including IT contractors) out of Environment Agency into Defra group.</p> answering member constituency Suffolk Coastal answering member printed Dr Thérèse Coffey question first answered 22/03/2018 10:42:04 answering member 4098 label Biography information for Dr Thérèse Coffey
	tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner