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	registered interest
	date	10/11/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients are able to receive treatment in (a) hospitals and (b) primary care settings in the event of a cyber attack.
	tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
	tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
	uin	112221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department is working with the National Cyber Security Centre, NHS England NHS Digital and NHS Improvement to prepare and rehearse incident response plans and take action to strengthen communications when core computer systems are affected by cyber security incidents.</p><p>A number of changes have been made that aim to make sure that the National Health Service and its systems are as resilient as possible, protecting patient data, ensuring safe patient care, and reducing the impact of cyber-attacks when they next occur.</p><p>To improve resilience in hospitals, £21 million of funding has been allocated to addressing key infrastructure vulnerabilities in major trauma centres and ambulance trusts to reduce the impact on patient access in the event of future cyber-attacks.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 15/11/2017 17:43:40 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

731867

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cyber-security incidents have taken place in the NHS since 2010; and how many incidents there have been where (a) patient data has been accessed or compromised and (b) patient care has been interrupted or halted.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	784
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 780 781 782 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

731863

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to establish an inquiry into the cyber-attack on the NHS on 12 May 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2017 answer text <p>Cyber resilience in the health and care system is an issue that the Government takes very seriously.</p><p> </p><p>We have changed the National Health Service standard contract to include, from April 2017, cyber security requirements.</p><p> </p><p>Evidence shows that the use of unsupported systems is continuing to reduce in health and care, as organisations replace older hardware. Latest estimates suggest the usage of Windows XP in the NHS has reduced from 15-18% at December 2015, to 4.7% of systems currently.</p><p> </p><p>The 12 May 2017 ransomware incident affected the NHS in the United Kingdom. It is standard practice to review any major incident in the NHS. Further, the Chief Information Officer for health and care is undertaking a review into the May 2017 cyber-attack which is expected to conclude in the autumn.</p><p> </p><p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the NHS ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>We do not comment more widely on matters of security.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 780 782 784 question first answered 27/06/2017 16:39:59 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

732542

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the recent cyber attack on the NHS.
	tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
	tabling member printed	Justin Madders
	uin	1052
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>The identifiable cost of emergency measures put in place to specifically address the National Health Service ransomware attack on 12 May 2017 was approximately £180,000. These costs were borne by NHS Digital and NHS England from internal budgets. Information relating to any expenditure incurred by individual local NHS trusts or other NHS organisations is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 03/07/2017 13:44:39 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders