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790897

registered interest
date	16/11/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Harassment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what cross-departmental initiatives her Department undertakes to tackle cyberbullying and to protect young people from abuse online.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	113613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>The Government's Internet Safety Strategy Green Paper sets out our expectation for social media and technology companies to protect young users from online harms. Measures include a social media Code of Practice, to address conduct that is bullying or insulting to users, or other behaviour that is likely to intimidate or humiliate.</p><p> </p><p>The Strategy also outlines the crucial role that education plays in raising the level of users' safety online. DCMS and DfE will ensure new compulsory subjects in England, Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education, and Personal, Social, Health, Economic education (if taken forward), address the challenges experienced by young people online. Parents, carers and teachers should be empowered to engage with young people on online issues and we are consulting on support Government can offer.</p><p> </p><p>Since September 2016 the Department for Education has provided £1.6 million to four anti-bullying organisations to support schools over two years. The Government Equalities Office has also funded anti-cyberbullying and online safety resources available to schools through the UK Safer Internet Centre.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 23/11/2017 14:03:20 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

784808

registered interest
date	06/11/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 November 2017 to Question 109965, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent to registered consultancies of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme whose data was exposed owing to a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	111536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to my answer to PQ 108123. The email was sent by IASME - not by the Government. IASME own the content of that communication. It was reported in the media that the email contained the following information:</p><p> </p><p>&quot;We would like to make you aware that, due to a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform we use for Cyber Essentials assessments, the email address you used to apply for an assessment and your company name may have been released to a third party...&quot;</p><p> </p><p>&quot;We would like to make it clear that the security of the assessment platform has not been compromised. Your account, the answers you provided in the assessment and the report you received are secure. No information other than your email address and your company name was accessible to the third party.&quot;</p><p> </p><p>&quot;An unknown person accessed a list of email addresses in a log file generated by the Pervade assessment platform and your email address, company name and the IP address of the Certification Body was on that list. No other information was accessed. The other information on the assessment portal itself was not affected in any way and no-one has accessed the system, your account, the answers you provided or the report you received. This log file became accessible through a configuration error on the part of one of the Pervade systems engineers. Pervade have taken immediate steps to address the error and have resolved the issue.&quot;</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 17/11/2017 10:08:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

778094

registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent to registered consultancies of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme whose data was exposed owing to a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	109965
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to my answer to PQ 108123.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 109582 question first answered 03/11/2017 09:43:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

777702

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2017 to Question 108122, on cybercrime, how many registered consultancies of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme had data exposed.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	109582
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon member to my answer to PQ 108123.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock grouped question UIN 109965 question first answered 03/11/2017 09:43:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

776010

registered interest
date	23/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Equifax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether any Government departments were compromised by the data breach at Equifax; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	109027
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>No Government departments have been compromised by the data breach at Equifax Inc., a US-registered company.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has a contract with TDX Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Equifax Ltd. Equifax Ltd is a separate legal entity registered in the UK. The systems and platforms used in the UK by Equifax Ltd are entirely separated from those impacted by the cyber security incident in the US and were not affected.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/10/2017 11:27:40 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

773067

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Equifax
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions she has had with her US counterparts on the Equifax data breach; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	108521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2017 answer text <p>A range of channels have been pursued by the Government, including direct contact US law enforcement and with Equifax US. In addition, the Government has received regular updates from Equifax. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the National Crime Agency, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Information Commissioner’s Office are assessing the impact on UK consumers and are discussing the scope of the company’s consumer notifications.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/10/2017 11:29:05 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

773074

registered interest
date	18/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, following the data breach of one of the accrediting bodies for Cyber Essentials in June 2017, what measures the Government has put in place to avoid this happening again.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	108641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>This was not a breach of any Government data, but a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform used by an external third party, which led to system logs from companies, including assessors of and applicants to the Cyber Essentials scheme, being exposed. There is no evidence to suggest data was extracted. Cyber Essentials is an excellent scheme and an important part of our national response to cyber threats.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The National Cyber Security Centre has ensured the relevant third parties have taken appropriate action in response. The scheme’s Accreditation Bodies are required to take appropriate security measures through contractual obligations relating to the storage of data, including using the latest version of anti-virus software. Following the incident, an independent security audit was conducted on the Pervade software, which resulted in the implementation of a number of minor recommendations. The software is regularly penetration tested.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/12/2017 09:51:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

772015

registered interest
date	17/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many registered consultancies of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme had data exposed due to a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	108122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>A configuration error in the Pervade Software platform used by an external third party led to system logs from companies, including assessors of and applicants to the Cyber Essentials scheme, being exposed, though there has been no evidence to suggest data was extracted.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 25/10/2017 10:23:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

772016

registered interest
date	17/10/2017
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will place in the Library guidance issued to registered consultancies of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme whose data was exposed due to a configuration error in the Pervade Software platform.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	108123
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>A configuration error in the Pervade Software platform used by an external third party led to system logs containing 801 email addresses, user names, company name, and IP addresses from 800 companies, including assessors of and applicants to the Cyber Essentials scheme, being exposed. There has been no evidence to suggest this data was extracted. The Cyber Essential Scheme's operation has not been adversely affected. The most up to date guidance explaining what to do following a data breach is published on the NCSC website. <strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 25/10/2017 10:25:45 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

722073

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many staff in her Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>FOI requests may be responded to by any member of staff across the Department, as they are allocated to the most appropriate person to respond depending on the subject of the request.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 26/04/2017 08:53:11 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne