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807213

registered interest
date	15/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to implement the guidance set out by the Government Commercial Function in its paper entitled Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, in respect of (a) using market engagement, (b) setting up disaggregation work, (c) risk assessment, (d) developing a programme plan through the transition, (e) identifying the skills and capabilities that will be needed in the future and (f) any other work related to that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119859
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>Exit arrangements from Major IT Contracts is limited across the Department as IT services are predominantly delivered through in-house IT teams and supplemented by a small number of services through commercial partners. The DVLA exit from the PACT contract is well documented within the guidance and is an example of best practice for exiting large IT contracts. The experience gained from PACT exit is being shared across the Department and the recently implemented IT Category approach provides forum network for IT commercial professionals to share best.</p><p> </p><p>Further work is being undertaken to collaborate across HMG with representation at the Digital Commercial forum and numerous CCS led initiatives.</p><p> </p><p>The exception within the Department is DVSA, as there are current programmes of work to disaggregate the two existing large IT contracts. The work being carried out is covered explicitly below;</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(a) using market engagement, </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DVSA is well acquainted with the guiding principles within the GCF paper ‘Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments’ and routinely proactively engages with GDS and CO Commercial on exit from current major IT contracts which are with Atos and Capita. Exit from these contracts formed a core objective of 2015 DVSA Digital Services &amp; Technology strategy. Individual projects and procurements have already been launched for replacement services with market sounding as a routine step in the procurement process e.g. the new End User Computing contract. Digital Partners have been selected through the G Cloud framework for development of replacement services with significant market interest shown when the procurement exercise was launched 12 months ago. DVSA ensures it understands User Needs through a Discovery phase e.g. in developing new digital MOT service which fully replaced the old MOT PFI contract. In addition, DVSA makes use of technology analysists to understand developments in the market.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(b) setting up disaggregation work, </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Projects for replacement services to exit from the two existing major IT contracts are launched and have governance processes that requires scrutiny and approval of full business cases and have a SRO identified.</p><p>Agile methodology is used within these projects with MVP and service backlogs identified and routinely tracked through burn down charts for each sprint. Project benefits are tracked through internal governance and include enabling benefits the exit of existing contracts. E.g., the Commercial Vehicle Services (CVS) project will enable the exit of a majority of the DVSA IS2003 contract with Atos during its remaining term. All other activities to enable contract exit are managed on a Common Technology Service backlog.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(c) risk assessment, </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DVSA has identified non exit within the remaining term of their two major IT contracts as a corporate risk and this is monitored by the DVSA Directing Board. Each project that facilitates contract exit is subject to normal project governance including monthly risk assessments. All contract end dates are routinely monitored through the DVSA Investment and Change Committee (ICC).</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(d) developing a programme plan through the transition, </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Planning for contract exit and introduction of replacement services are managed through project plans and transition is part of the deliverable for the projects. For exit of the two major IT contracts, an internal DVSA Oversight Board has been established to monitor risks to exit timescales. This updates the DVSA Investment and Change Committee which is chaired by a Director.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>(e) identifying the skills and capabilities that will be needed in the future and </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The need for futures skills and capabilities was recognised in the 2015 DVSA Digital Services &amp; Technology strategy. DVSA has already successfully run an apprentice programme and a graduate programme for developing digital capability. In addition, recruitment campaigns are being run to fill permanent posts in the organisation consistent with the Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) professional requirements. DVSA Digital Services and Technology Directorate has measured itself against Government Commercial Function operating standards.</p><p> </p><p><strong>(f) any other work related to that guidance.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Incumbent suppliers are being proactively managed by DVSA to secure their cooperation for exit and transition. Formal partnership meetings are held with senior executives and a collaborative approach has been established. This is reinforced through DVSA engagement with the relevant Crown Representatives and Strategic Relationship Mangers at Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 21/12/2017 13:54:28 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

806292

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many data incidents his Department (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>This response relates to both the central Department and its agencies which includes specifically the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA).</p><p> </p><p>In 2015-16, 14 data incidents were centrally recorded, with two reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In 2016-17, six were centrally reported, with none reported to the ICO.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 21/12/2017 13:24:49 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

806311

registered interest
date	13/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many times his Department's Senior Information Risk Officer role has been vacant for a week or longer since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119503
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department has and continues to appoint Senior Information Risk Officers across the DfT Group including DfT central and the agencies.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2012 the role of Senior Information Risk Owner has not been vacant for a week or longer within the Department.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 21/12/2017 09:06:54 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

802102

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Bell Pottinger Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what representations any Minister of his Department has received from Bell Pottinger on behalf of (a) Atos IT Services UK Limited, (b) Centrica PLC, (c) Ernst & Young, (d) Heads of the Valleys Development Company Limited and (e) Monarch Holdings Limited
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	117789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2017 answer text <p>My Department has received no representations from Bell Pottinger on behalf of Atos IT Services UK Limited, Centrica PLC, Ernst &amp; Young, Heads of the Valleys Development Company Limited or Monarch Holdings Limited in the last 12 months.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 15/12/2017 10:07:32 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

797513

registered interest
date	29/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the oral contribution of the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union to the House of Lords European Union Committee on 31 October, how many civil servants his Department (a) has recruited and (b) expects to recruit to work on leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	116476
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>Exit is an all-of-government operation. The Department for Exiting the European Union is doing detailed work with departments to prepare for the upcoming negotiations by understanding the risks and opportunities of leaving the EU and coordinating planning. Staff within the Department for Transport’s International and Regulatory Directorate lead on providing advice to Ministers on EU Exit and exit-related issues. Members of staff across the Department for Transport also provide advice and analysis on EU Exit issues as required. Given the interactions between EU exit work and the Department’s other priorities, it would not be possible to give an accurate figure.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 07/12/2017 15:25:39 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

785021

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Telephone Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which public telephone lines for his Department's services are charged at higher rates; and how much was taken by each such telephone line in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	111486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>DVLA has three premium rate telephone lines, two of which are available to the public. The two public telephone lines were set up in May 2015 and provide customers with a translation service. The third telephone line is used exclusively by the motor trade and is not available to the general public.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of income for the three telephone lines for the financial year 2016-17 was £798k. It has not been possible to extract the income from the motor trade telephone line from the two public telephone lines.</p><p> </p><p>By way of context, the Department, including its Agencies, has 3,187 public phone-lines which, aside from the three lines referred to above, are all charged at the standard or local rate.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/11/2017 15:34:49 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

783262

registered interest
date	03/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of his Department's spend in the last year has been with Government strategic suppliers.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	111290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2017 answer text <p>My department’s proportion of spend with Government Strategic suppliers in the last year 16/17 was 15.6% of our total procurement spend.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>DFTc</p></td><td><p>DVLA</p></td><td><p>DVSA</p></td><td><p>MCA</p></td><td><p>VCA</p></td><td><p>DFT Group</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Proportion of spend</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td><td><p>18.0%</p></td><td><p>27.9%</p></td><td><p>5.7%</p></td><td><p>1.5%</p></td><td><p>15.6%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>These numbers are calculated using the total procurement (net) spend from Bravo spend analytics software with the Strategic suppliers divided by the total procurement spend across all suppliers and given as a percentage.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 13/11/2017 14:44:38 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

782189

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department holds a central list of the IT and digital assets of its arm's-length bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110735
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Transport’s arm’s-length bodies are:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li>Network Rail</li><li>British Transport Police</li><li>Highways England</li><li>HS2 Ltd</li></ul><p> </p><p>We can confirm that we do not hold a central list of their IT and digital assets.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 08/11/2017 10:13:59 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

773302

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 September 2017 to Question 10152, on Department for Transport: redundancy pay, of the (a) 190 exit packages awarded in the core department and 476 in the departmental group in 2016 and (b) the 144 exit packages awarded in the core department and the 497 in the departmental group in 2015, how many were awarded to (i) men and (ii) women.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	108429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>Details of the number, type, compensation levels and cost of exits from the Department for Transport are routinely published in the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. We do not hold all the information requested centrally and to establish these details would incur disproportionate costs.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/10/2017 11:12:36 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765372

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 8043, how many and what proportion of firms have a Cyber Essentials qualification; and whether that qualification is a requirement for delivering work procured by his Department.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>We do not hold a central record of the number of suppliers that are certified to the Cyber Essentials scheme, and therefore cannot say what proportion hold the certification. We would not be able to provide this information without expending disproportionate effort.</p><p> </p><p>Certification to the scheme has, since October 2014, been a requirement for contracts that involve the processing of personal data or the provision of certain IT products or services.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the department’s ongoing risk management, we seek assurance ­­– usually on an annual basis – from those suppliers that process personal data on our behalf. In respect of the central department, all of those suppliers that provided assurance in 2016/17 confirmed that they were certified to the Cyber Essentials scheme.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/10/2017 15:55:29 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett