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599328

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Distributed Ledger Technology
	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 assessment of the potential merits of using blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	47976
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2016 answer text <p>Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and blockchain are exciting new developments. The Government is open minded about their potential, along with other emerging technologies, to help better meet user needs. At this stage more research is needed in order to determine their potential uses and whether the technologies are appropriate as a vehicle for public service delivery. The Government will be guided by the Chief Scientific Adviser’s 2016 report on the topic available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/distributed-ledger-technology-beyond-block-chain" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/distributed-ledger-technology-beyond-block-chain</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 18/10/2016 09:12:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850775

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Public Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to ensure robust cyber security in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	130009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes public sector cyber security very seriously. We support the sector in improving their resilience to cyber attacks and encourage all organisations to implement the advice developed by National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and published on their website (<a href="http://www.ncsc.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.ncsc.gov.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme continues to be rolled out alongside the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government led <em>Think Cyber Think Resilience</em> initiative which helps councils improve their security and wider cyber resilience awareness.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/03/2018 13:47:42 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850776

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to make improve the use of digital technology in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	130010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is a recognised world leader in public sector digital innovation. The Government Digital Service (GDS) leads on the digital transformation in government, providing common solutions to problems that government service teams have to tackle repeatedly.</p><p>GDS provides standards, guidance and best practice to help government to build services that work for everyone. GDS works with departments to provide the right technology to help the public sector deliver great services, through technology that meets user needs; makes cross-government collaboration easier; costs less; and will help civil servants to work more flexibly and efficiently.</p><p>The Government Transformation Strategy was published in February 2017. It sets out a vision for transforming the way government operates and delivers services in the digital age and GDS’ role in driving this change. It was developed in conjunction with other government departments and its objectives include business transformation; increasing skills and capability across government; developing better tools, processes and governance; data; and developing more shared platforms such as GOV.UK Notify.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 07/03/2018 11:52:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

864267

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Cost Effectiveness
	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 efficiency savings that better use of technology has enabled for departmental spending since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	132752
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>In total, benefits of £3.56 billion were achieved in the last spending review period as a result of digital and technology transformation across government (April 2012 - March 2015). GDS delivered over £339 million benefits in 2015/16, improving the quality of services through assuring digital and technology projects.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 29/03/2018 09:53:38 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

864268

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Blockchain
	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 potential benefits of using blockchain in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	132753
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2018 answer text <p>Government is researching potential use cases, and engaging with suppliers about the best use of blockchain technologies with a view of how it might drive efficiencies and support transformation. This research is led by individual departments in line with their specific needs.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 23/03/2018 11:45:11 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

864269

	registered interest
	date	15/03/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent steps his Department has taken to improve transparency in government.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	132754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2018 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government has been at the forefront of opening up data to allow the public and Parliament to hold public bodies to account. The Government remains committed to continuing to look at how the range of information it publishes can be expanded and made as useful as possible to the public, business, the voluntary sector and government itself.</p><p>We recently launched a new webpage that clarifies the core transparency data published by Government and provides guidance on ensuring this data is accessible, timely and easy to find: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/how-to-publish-central-government-transparency-data</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 22/03/2018 12:04:49 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

947268

	registered interest
	date	24/07/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Contracts
	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 effectiveness of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015 in ensuring that the public sector treats economic operators equally and without discrimination.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	167949
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>The EU Public Procurement Directives contain detailed procedural rules to facilitate the Single Market, including an obligation to treat economic operators equally and without discrimination. This is transposed at Article 18 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and there are penalties contained in a separate scheme of remedies directives for non-compliance. The UK has transposed all directives fully.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission publishes studies that evaluate and assess various aspects of the impact of the directives, and can be viewed at the following link:</p><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/public-procurement/studies-networks_en" target="_blank"><strong>https://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/public-procurement/studies-networks_en</strong></a><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 05/09/2018 17:01:40 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

886330

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Population
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will ask the Office of National Statistics to undertake a National Population Projection on the effect of the UK leaving the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Gravesham
	tabling member printed	Adam Holloway
	uin	136525
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2018 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Norwich North answering member printed Chloe Smith question first answered 25/04/2018 13:36:55 answering member 1609 label Biography information for Chloe Smith attachment 1 file name PQ136525.pdf title UKSA Response
	tabling member	1522 label Biography information for Adam Holloway

768862

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which (a) groups and (b) organisations were involved in stakeholder consultation exercises as part of the Race Disparity Audit, broken down by (i) sector, (ii) race and (iii) ethnicity.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	107215
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2017 answer text <p>All UK Government Departments, the Office for National Statistics, the UK Statistics Authority and all three Devolved Administrations have been consulted about the development of the Audit. Outside organisations consulted about the Race Disparity Audit are listed below. Data is not held on the race or ethnicity of individuals who were consulted.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Academic sector</strong></p><p>Academy Of Medical Sciences</p><p>Birkbeck College, University of London</p><p>Bristol University</p><p>British Academy</p><p>Huddersfield University</p><p>London School of Economics</p><p>NatCen Social Research</p><p>Royal Society</p><p>Sheffield University</p><p>Universities UK</p><p>University of Edinburgh</p><p>University of Essex</p><p>University of London</p><p>University of Manchester</p><p>University of Oxford</p><p>University of Sheffield</p><p> </p><p><strong>Non-Government Organisations</strong></p><p>Belong</p><p>BEMIS Scotland</p><p>Big Lottery Fund</p><p>Bite the Ballot</p><p>Black Thrive</p><p>Black Training and Enterprise Group</p><p>BME Health Forum</p><p>BRAP</p><p>British Heart Foundation</p><p>Business in the Community</p><p>Cancer Research UK</p><p>CEMVO Scotland</p><p>Changing the Chemistry (CtC)</p><p>Chinese Health Living Centre</p><p>Citizens Advice</p><p>Data Orchard</p><p>Education and Employers Taskforce</p><p>Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion</p><p>Equality and Diversity Forum</p><p>Equality and Human Rights Commission</p><p>Friends, Families and Travellers</p><p>FullFact</p><p>Gypsy Traveller Empowerment</p><p>Inclusion Cornwall</p><p>Institute for Public Policy Research</p><p>Joseph Rowntree Foundation</p><p>Kings Fund</p><p>National Black Women’s Network</p><p>Northern Ireland Council for Racial Equality</p><p>Office for Fair Access</p><p>Olmec</p><p>One Voice For Travellers</p><p>Open Data Institute</p><p>Operation Black Vote</p><p>QED UK</p><p>Race Equality Foundation</p><p>Race on the Agenda</p><p>RJ Working</p><p>Roma Support Group</p><p>Royal Academy of Engineering</p><p>Royal College of Psychiatrists</p><p>Runnymede Trust</p><p>St Giles Trust</p><p>The Leeds GATE</p><p>Voice 4 Change</p><p>Work Foundation</p><p>Young Foundation</p><p> </p><p><strong>Private sector</strong></p><p>Green Park Ltd</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Public sector</strong></p><p>Bradford City Council</p><p>Bradford College</p><p>Bradford Health and Well Being Board</p><p>Camden Council</p><p>City of London Academies Trust</p><p>Cornwall Council</p><p>Greater London Authority</p><p>Hackney Council</p><p>Haringey Council</p><p>Harris Federation</p><p>Higher Education Funding Council for England</p><p>Lambeth Council</p><p>Office for Students</p><p>NHS BME Network</p><p>NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group</p><p>NHS Yorkshire and Humber Commissioning Support</p><p>Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust</p><p>Sheffield Council</p><p>South London and Maudsley NHS Trust</p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 19/10/2017 08:57:28 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green previous answer version 15331 answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

838531

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Equality
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020, what formal role will be given to staff networks to promote inclusivity on grounds of religion or belief.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	127351
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2018 answer text <p>The Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016-2020 set out ambition to the UK’s most inclusive employer. To deliver this objective the Government published <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-brilliant-civil-service-becoming-the-uks-most-inclusive-employer" target="_blank">“A Brilliant Civil Service: becoming the UK’s most inclusive employer”</a> in October 2017, which committed to focusing on religion, belief and non-belief as part of our wider approach to inclusion.</p><p>This Strategy set out a commitment to work with staff networks in the Civil Service, including faith and belief networks, to provide advice and support on improving the experience of staff, as well as promoting interfaith dialogue and inclusion. They play an important role in contributing to the debate on what progress we should make and how; as well as providing peer support and advice to others, including Permanent Secretaries and senior leaders.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 14/03/2018 14:17:41 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan