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41989

	registered interest
	date	07/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will estimate the net benefit to the UK economy of data.gov.uk since it publicly launched in January 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	191143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p> We know that open data is of huge value to the economy. It is difficult to cite an exact figure for the net benefit of data.gov.uk. </p><p /> <p>A recent <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/198905/bis-13-743-market-assessment-of-public-sector-information.pdf" target="_blank">Deloitte report</a>, available at LINK, cited £1.8bn of direct benefit and £6.8bn of indirect benefit to the UK economy from the use of open data, although this also includes data that is not government data. </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

44643

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to incentivise departmental officials to bring old Government data sets online in accessible formats.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	193287
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/03/2014 answer text <p>The UK has been recognised as the international leader in data transparency. During our Presidency of the G8 in 2013 we led Members to commit to publishing data openly by default as a matter of principle through the Open Data Charter.<br> <br> Departments are engaging the public and special interest groups about the most important data held by Government (whether old or new); publishing open data strategies and reporting to Parliament on progress on a quarterly basis.<br> <br> Those data sets that are judged to have the most significant economic and social impact we refer to as the National Information Infrastructure, and are our priority for making available and accessible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 31/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

61451

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Census
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he for the future of the UK Census; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	200302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government recognises the value of the census but I have long said that it is outdated in its current form and could be more effectively and more cheaply delivered. Decisions about its future will be announced in the usual way, but the Government agrees with the conclusion of the Public Affairs Select Committee that the census needs to change.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 18/06/2014 12:11:21 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

63176

	registered interest
	date	23/06/2014
	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, how much was saved as a result of digitising data records in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	201677
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>The Government announced Digital and IT savings of £0.3bn for 2010-11, £0.2bn for 2011-12, and £0.5 bn for 2012-13, against a 2009-10 baseline.</p><p>We don't hold full details of the discrete savings made by departments in digitising their data records.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 30/06/2014 16:32:04 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

77517

	registered interest
	date	14/07/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Non-governmental Organisations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations were abolished in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12 and (c) 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	205499
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2014 answer text <p>In 2010 the Coalition pledged to reduce the number and cost of public bodies. Our Public Bodies Reform Programme is the largest restructuring of public bodies in a generation. It will make the landscape smaller, more accountable, and will offer better value for money to the public.</p><p>By April 2011 the reforms brought about by the programme had reduced the number of public bodies by 46. During 2011-2012 the numbers reduced by a further 56. To date over 185 public bodies have been abolished and more than 165 have been merged into fewer than 70.</p><p>The total number of public bodies has reduced by over 285.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 21/07/2014 13:52:09 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

61581

	registered interest
	date	12/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.
	tabling member constituency	Plymouth, Moor View
	tabling member printed	Alison Seabeck
	uin	200439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2014 answer text <p>One Parliamentary Question, which was tabled the day before prorogation, did not receive a substantive answer</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/06/2014 16:26:38 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1552 label Biography information for Alison Seabeck

40900

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name
	answering dept sort name
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what funding his Department provided for staff to carry out trade union activities in each of the last three years; and how many days staff spent on those activities in each of those years.
	tabling member constituency	Vale of Glamorgan
	tabling member printed	Alun Cairns
	uin	190235
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/03/2014 answer text <p>Prior to January 2013, the Cabinet Office did not differentiate between time spent on Trade Union Activities and time spent on Trade Union Duties in recording the usage of Trade Union Facility Time.</p><p>No Facility Time has been granted for Trade Union Activities since January 2013.</p><p>Since January 2013, data relating to departmental Facility Time is published on the GOV.UK website (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-union-facility-time</a>).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 17/03/2014 12:00:00 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns

89459

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	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 steps the Government is taking to ensure the protection of personal data held by private companies operating Government-shared services.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
	tabling member printed	Anas Sarwar
	uin	207435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>As with all outsourcing arrangements, security and information assurance measures are being implemented in line with the Government’s Information Assurance Standards, Good Practice Guides, Government Security Policy Framework and Data Protection Act. These Government security requirements were introduced under the previous Government and applied to outsourcing then. All shared services data will be handled, processed and transmitted in accordance with these security requirements, taking into consideration clients’ security policies.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 03/09/2014 16:28:43 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3981 label Biography information for Anas Sarwar

63840

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Voluntary Organisations
	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 (a) total value of public service contracts that have been awarded to voluntary sector organisations in each year since 2008-09 and (b) proportion of overall public expenditure which was spent on public service contracts with voluntary sector organisations in the last year for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Burton
	tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
	uin	202407
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Since January 2011 Government departments have published information on the contracts they award on Contracts Finder: <a href="http://www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/" target="_blank">www.contractsfinder.businesslink.gov.uk/</a></p><p>Central government departments publish their expenditure with Voluntary and Community Sector organisations as part of their Quarterly Data Summaries (QDS): <a href="http://www.gist.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/oscar/" target="_blank">http://www.gist.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/oscar/</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 30/06/2014 16:29:54 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths

90511

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the number of cyber-attacks on Government IT systems since January 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	208102
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>We are now seeing around 100 sophisticated attacks a month on UK Government or industry networks<strong>.</strong> The Government has committed £860m until 2016 to the transformative National Cyber Security Programme to bolster the UK’s cyber defences. The National Cyber Security Strategy, published November 2011, sets out how the UK will support economic prosperity, protect national security and safeguard the public’s way of life by building a more trusted and resilient digital environment.</p><p>We do not comment on specific details of cyber security attacks on Government IT systems.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 08/09/2014 10:46:11 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell