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1669192

registered interest
date	10/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the potential (a) environmental and (b) economic impact of the use by Government departments of data storage contracts signed since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2023 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office, in the Cabinet Office, does not hold a specific estimate of the environmental and economic impact of data storage contracts.</p><p>Improving sustainability is a commitment within the Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, and a requirement within the Technology Code of Practice, which is a set of criteria to help government design, build and buy technology.</p><p>Data storage requirements across departments will not solely be met through specific contracts for these services; they will be met through capital purchase of hardware and through agreements for broader services, such as the provision of cloud platforms, or of software-as-a-service solutions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 20/11/2023 12:49:26 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1669094

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of cross-departmental implementation of the Government Cloud First policy.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, is responsible for the Government’s Cloud strategy and for advising government departments on Cloud.</p><p>CDDO has a quarterly data commissioning process that collects metrics across a number of strategic areas including cloud adoption. Central government organisations report their estimated percentage of technology assets hosted on cloud. Further to this, CDDO operates the Quarterly Business Review, a joint Cabinet Office-HM Treasury assurance review of departmental delivery that allows CDDO to query departmental progress on implementing cloud first adoption.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 17/11/2023 12:10:25 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1669097

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Crown Hosting Data Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an estimate of the impact of the establishment of Crown Hosting Data Centres on the cost of data centre services for the Government in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>Commercial benefit, as assessed by the Crown Commercial Service using third party market intelligence, shows that existing Government organisations save 51% by using Crown Hosting Data Centres.</p><p>On relocation of their back-office IT infrastructure to Crown Hosting, Government organisations typically save 75% of their costs, when comparing before and after relocation. Savings are made through a combination of energy efficiency and economy of scale of Crown Hosting.</p><p>Using data reported by the EU Resource Efficiency Coordination Action (EURECA) 2018 study, Crown Hosting reduces electricity consumption by approximately 300% compared to the average public sector data centre.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 1123 question first answered 17/11/2023 14:34:15 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1669099

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Crown Hosting Data Centres
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the changes to energy usage by the Government as a result of the use of Crown Hosting Data Centres.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>Commercial benefit, as assessed by the Crown Commercial Service using third party market intelligence, shows that existing Government organisations save 51% by using Crown Hosting Data Centres.</p><p>On relocation of their back-office IT infrastructure to Crown Hosting, Government organisations typically save 75% of their costs, when comparing before and after relocation. Savings are made through a combination of energy efficiency and economy of scale of Crown Hosting.</p><p>Using data reported by the EU Resource Efficiency Coordination Action (EURECA) 2018 study, Crown Hosting reduces electricity consumption by approximately 300% compared to the average public sector data centre.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 1122 question first answered 17/11/2023 14:34:15 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1171931

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Polling Stations: Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of schools that closed for polling the 2019 general election in (a) Hertfordshire, (b) Stevenage, (c) England and (d) throughout the UK; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	5413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not hold information centrally on the number of primary schools that are used as polling stations. It is the responsibility of the relevant Returning Officer to choose venues for polling stations.</p><p>For the 2019 General Election, the Government offered to reimburse the additional cost of using alternative venues where schools or other community spaces ordinarily used as polling places were already booked for other planned events on the day of the poll in order to avoid disrupting activities in the run up to the festive season. The Minister for the Cabinet Office provided such reassurance in the following letter to Returning Officers:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-to-returning-officers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-to-returning-officers</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 23/01/2020 15:47:17 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1172114

registered interest
date	20/01/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Homelessness: Death
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of homeless deaths in (a) the UK, (b) England, (c) Hertfordshire and (d) Stevenage in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	5585
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2020 answer text <p>The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 04/02/2020 16:03:24 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name 2020.02.03 - PQ 5585 - UKSA letter.pdf title UKSA Response
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland