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1657213

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Public Inquiries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what has been the average time taken to respond to public inquiries by his Department in each of the last five years; and whether he plans to introduce measures to improve this.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196857
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not hold any specific information on response times to public inquiries but in responding to all public inquiry responses my department endeavours to ensure that it meets all deadlines set and responds in a timely manner.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 13:01:59 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657692

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Gastrointestinal System
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many patients were admitted to hospital for (a) upper and (b) lower gastrointestinal haemorrhages in (i) Strangford constituency and (ii) Northern Ireland in each year since 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	197392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The release of statistics in relation to hospital admissions in Northern Ireland is a matter for the Northern Ireland Department of Health.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 08:53:54 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1657171

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by his Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196815
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>FOI response times are monitored centrally by the Cabinet Office and published quarterly on the Gov.uk website.</p><p>Within the 2022-23 financial year, the percentage of requests answered within statutory deadlines did not fall below 85%, which we would assess as adequate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 09:05:02 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657064

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what data their Department holds on the average response time to enquiries by Members; and what assessment they have made of the adequacy of that response time.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196708
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence, particularly from Parliamentarians. As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>, departments and agencies should aim to respond to correspondence within a 20-working day target deadline.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to timeliness of responses to enquiries received by members, the Cabinet Office published data on this for 2022 for all government departments on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in March 2023, and will be publishing data for Q1 and Q2 2023 shortly. The 2022 data can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Office make every effort to reply to correspondence promptly and within the original deadline. However, if the matters raised in the correspondence require substantial investigation, it might not be possible to provide a substantive reply to a case within the departmental deadline.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker grouped question UIN 196685 question first answered 11/09/2023 16:36:52 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657107

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what data their Department holds on the average response time to written parliamentary questions in the last six months; and what assessment they have made of the adequacy of that response time.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196751
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Written Parliamentary Questions.</p><p>There are three types of Written Parliamentary Question. The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work sets out the timelines departments should seek to meet.</p><p>This can be found here:</p><p><strong><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116933/2022-10-11_-_Guide_to_Parliamentary_Work___1_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116933/2022-10-11_-_Guide_to_Parliamentary_Work___1_.pdf</a></strong></p><p>Departmental performance on Written Parliamentary Questions is published at the end of each session by the Procedure Committee and is therefore publicly available.</p><p>You can find details of the last session's PQ performance here:</p><p><strong><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html</a></strong></p><p>This year's data will be published by the Procedure Committee when the session concludes.</p><p>The Northern Ireland Office make every effort to reply to Written Parliamentary Questions within original deadlines by ensuring strict internal deadlines are in place, regular guidance is issued to all staff and monthly corporate reporting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker grouped question UIN 196728 question first answered 11/09/2023 13:01:06 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657128

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to (a) enhance cybersecurity and (b) protect personal data.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196772
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>Being cyber secure and protecting personal data underpins everything we do in the Northern Ireland Office. In accordance with the Government Cyber Security Strategy we are working to ensure that our critical functions will be significantly hardened to cyber-attack by 2025, with all government organisations across the whole public sector being resilient to known vulnerabilities and attack methods no later than 2030.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 09:01:44 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657193

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps their Department is taking to improve its digital services to provide better (a) accessibility and (b) user experience for the public.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196837
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>My Department has made a number of provisions for individual staff to improve accessibility based on workplace passports. We also ensure our websites meet the latest guidelines for accessibility, however, it should be noted that my department is not a public-facing department that gathers large amounts of personal data from the general public.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 09:06:39 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657084

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Written Questions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps their Department is taking to improve response times to written parliamentary questions.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196728
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Written Parliamentary Questions.</p><p>There are three types of Written Parliamentary Question. The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work sets out the timelines departments should seek to meet.</p><p>This can be found here:</p><p><strong><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116933/2022-10-11_-_Guide_to_Parliamentary_Work___1_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116933/2022-10-11_-_Guide_to_Parliamentary_Work___1_.pdf</a></strong></p><p>Departmental performance on Written Parliamentary Questions is published at the end of each session by the Procedure Committee and is therefore publicly available.</p><p>You can find details of the last session's PQ performance here:</p><p><strong><a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html" target="_blank">https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html</a></strong></p><p>This year's data will be published by the Procedure Committee when the session concludes.</p><p>The Northern Ireland Office make every effort to reply to Written Parliamentary Questions within original deadlines by ensuring strict internal deadlines are in place, regular guidance is issued to all staff and monthly corporate reporting.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker grouped question UIN 196751 question first answered 11/09/2023 13:01:06 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657151

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps their Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196795
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office utilises a case tracking system to monitor the timeliness of FOI requests, tracking internal and external deadlines and issuing reminders on late cases where necessary. Furthermore, the department also offers training sessions to staff on the appropriate handling of information requests which emphasises the importance of responding within the time limits set by the FOI Act.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker question first answered 11/09/2023 09:03:06 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657041

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps they are taking to reduce backlogs of Member correspondence in their office.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196685
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence, particularly from Parliamentarians. As per the Cabinet Office’s Guide to Handling Correspondence on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">gov.uk</a>, departments and agencies should aim to respond to correspondence within a 20-working day target deadline.</p><p> </p><p>With regards to timeliness of responses to enquiries received by members, the Cabinet Office published data on this for 2022 for all government departments on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> in March 2023, and will be publishing data for Q1 and Q2 2023 shortly. The 2022 data can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers-2022</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Northern Ireland Office make every effort to reply to correspondence promptly and within the original deadline. However, if the matters raised in the correspondence require substantial investigation, it might not be possible to provide a substantive reply to a case within the departmental deadline.</p> answering member constituency Wycombe answering member printed Mr Steve Baker grouped question UIN 196708 question first answered 11/09/2023 16:36:52 answering member 4064 label Biography information for Mr Steve Baker
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight