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1130119

registered interest
date	05/06/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department plans to take to assess the social and economic value of different university courses to (a) students and (b) taxpayers.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260661
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>We are clear that outcomes are not just about economic returns. Our higher education system transforms lives and is a great contributor to both our industrial success and the cultural life of the nation. High quality provision in a range of subjects is critical for our public services and culturally enriching for our society.</p><p>The Teaching Excellence Framework puts clear information in the hands of students about the teaching quality and outcomes they might expect to receive.</p><p>In addition, the government regularly publishes information on the benefits of higher education ranging from; research publications on student aspirations and the wider non-market benefits, to statistical publications on graduate employment and earning trends including ‘Graduate Labour Market Statistics’ and ‘Longitudinal Education Outcomes’ publications, which can be found on the gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-labour-market-statistics-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-labour-market-statistics-2018. </a></p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-higher-education-graduate-employment-and-earnings" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-higher-education-graduate-employment-and-earnings. </a></p><p>The government is due to publish an updated study in the coming months on the earnings premium graduates can expect from holding a degree. The latest research, however, can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229498/bis-13-899-the-impact-of-university-degrees-on-the-lifecycle-of-earnings-further-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/229498/bis-13-899-the-impact-of-university-degrees-on-the-lifecycle-of-earnings-further-analysis.pdf</a>.</p><p>The research suggests that over a working life, graduate returns average £170,000 for males and £250,000 for females, which takes into account the impact of loan repayments, national insurance and income tax payments.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/06/2019 15:54:36 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129625

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to respond to the Information Commissioner's report, Outsourcing oversight: the case for reforming access to information law which was published in January 2019.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260030
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2019 answer text <p>The Government responded to the IC's report to Parliament on the 24 April 2019.</p><p>Copies of the response have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 10/06/2019 12:18:16 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129756

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Environment Protection: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what roles the Government defines as green collar jobs; and what the criteria are for defining a job as green collar.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260031
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The official sources of data for capturing jobs that support clean growth are the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey and the ONS’s Environmental Goods and Services Sector dataset.</p><p> </p><p>This is publicly available information at: <br><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2017" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/finalestimates/2017</a>; and <br><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/ukenvironmentalgoodsandservicessectoregssestimates" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/ukenvironmentalgoodsandservicessectoregssestimates</a>.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 12/06/2019 14:22:58 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129757

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Environment Protection: Employment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many green collar jobs in the UK are (a) full-time, (b) part-time, (c) minimum wage, (d) in the public sector and (e) in the private sector.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260032
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>The official sources of data for capturing jobs that support clean growth are the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey and the ONS’s Environmental Goods and Services Sector dataset. These sources measure employment in terms of ‘full time equivalents’ only.</p><p> </p><p>According to the latest statistics from the ONS’s Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey there are almost 400,000 jobs in low carbon businesses and their supply chains across the country. By placing clean growth at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy, we are determined to maximise the economic opportunities from the transition to clean growth.</p><p> </p><p>We are working closely with the ONS to improve the detail and scope of these datasets.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 12/06/2019 14:23:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129759

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Chemotherapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what NHS England’s procurement policy is for tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions in early stage breast cancer.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260033
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England does not procure tumour profiling tests directly. The National Genomic Test Directory identifies the testing that should be available in the National Health Service and delivered through the Genomic Laboratory infrastructure. Decisions about the specific platforms used to deliver the testing are determined locally.</p><p>NHS England does not centrally hold information for the number of people offered and tested with tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for early breast cancer in each clinical commissioning group area in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 260035 question first answered 12/06/2019 16:35:22 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129760

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Breast Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library information on the number of people that have been diagnosed with early breast cancer in each Care Commissioning Group in England in the last year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260034
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>A table showing the number of people diagnosed with early breast cancer (stages one and two), and the total people diagnosed with breast cancer, in 2017 in each clinical commissioning group is attached. Data are available from the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.ncin.org.uk/publications/survival_by_stage" target="_blank">http://www.ncin.org.uk/publications/survival_by_stage</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 12/06/2019 16:25:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy attachment 1 file name 260034 table formatted.docx title Breast cancer diagnoses by CCG 2017
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129761

registered interest
date	04/06/2019
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	Breast Cancer: Chemotherapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will place in the Library information on the number of people (a) offered and (b) tested with tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for early breast cancer in each Care Commissioning Group area in England for the last year for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	260035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2019 answer text <p>NHS England does not procure tumour profiling tests directly. The National Genomic Test Directory identifies the testing that should be available in the National Health Service and delivered through the Genomic Laboratory infrastructure. Decisions about the specific platforms used to deliver the testing are determined locally.</p><p>NHS England does not centrally hold information for the number of people offered and tested with tumour profiling tests to guide adjuvant chemotherapy decisions for early breast cancer in each clinical commissioning group area in England.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 260033 question first answered 12/06/2019 16:35:22 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1129119

registered interest
date	03/06/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Passports: British National (Overseas)
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many valid British national (overseas) passports there were on 31 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	259260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2019 answer text <p>The number of valid British National (Overseas) passports in circulation as at 31st December 2018 was 169,653.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/06/2019 15:22:43 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1128457

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 March 2019 to Question 232503 on Taxis: Licensing, what plans he has to bring forward primary legislation to reform taxi and private hire licensing laws.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	257751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Government will bring forward legislation in respect of the commitments made in the response to the Task and Finish Group on Taxi and Private Hire Vehicle Licensing when time allows.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 04/06/2019 10:35:13 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

1128458

registered interest
date	23/05/2019
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Taxis: Licensing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 April 2019 to Question 240585 on Taxis: Licensing, what progress he has made on bringing forward legislative proposals to restrict cross border hiring by private hire drivers.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	257752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2019 answer text <p>Government continues to carefully consider how any restriction of out-of-area journeys by taxis and private hire vehicles proposed by the Chair of the Task and Finish Group might work in practice, with a view to legislating when time allows.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 04/06/2019 12:56:03 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner