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1685410

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date	29/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Police Service of Northern Ireland: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has had discussions with the Police Service of Northern Ireland on lessons learned from data breaches.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	11781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is devolved and has operational independence. It is for the Northern Ireland Policing Board (NIPB) to monitor and provide oversight of PSNI performance.</p><p>The PSNI and the NIPB commissioned an independent review into the data breach and a report was published on 11 December 2023.</p><p>The Government’s focus following the data breaches of August 2023 was on providing specialist support and expertise to the PSNI in its handling of this issue. Officials in the Cabinet Office chaired regular operational meetings - initially daily - bringing together the PSNI, Government Departments and the Security Services, to ensure that their collective skills, including cyber-expertise, were brought to bear in supporting the PSNI.</p><p>The Government published on 14 December 2023 technical guidance relating to the approach to be taken by FOI practitioners across central government when a requestor asks for disclosure in a spreadsheet format.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/02/2024 14:57:51 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1682396

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Surveillance: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department is taking steps with Cabinet colleagues to (a) find and (b) remove Chinese surveillance technology from national security infrastructure.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	9826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK takes its national security extremely seriously and has taken robust action to secure and protect its national security infrastructure.</p><p>Following Royal Assent of the Procurement Act on 26 October 2023 the Government committed to publishing a timeline for the removal of surveillance equipment supplied by companies subject to the National Intelligence Law of China from sensitive sites within six months.</p><p>To meet this commitment, the Cabinet Office has been working with departments to identify any such equipment on their sensitive sites, and will publish a timeline for when the removal process will be complete, by 26 April 2024.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/01/2024 17:31:35 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1661736

registered interest
date	19/09/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions he has had with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland on fraudulent or incorrect payments paid out by public bodies in Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	200321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The UK Government does not hold this information and is a matter for the Northern Ireland Civil Service.</p><p>However, we are committed to combatting fraud through prevention, detection and taking action against those who commit it.</p><p>The Cabinet Office worked with HM Treasury to launch the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) in August 2022. The PSFA is the government’s centre of expertise and works with ministerial departments and public bodies to understand and reduce the impact of public sector fraud. The PSFA provides counter fraud data analytics capability through the National Fraud Initiative (NFI) to public bodies including those in Northern Ireland. Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2022, the NFI achieved £4.4 million of counter fraud savings through the prevention or recovery of fraud in Northern Ireland.</p><p>The Rt Hon. Jeremy Quin MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and HM Paymaster General, has not had any meetings on the subject of fraudulent or incorrect payments paid out by public bodies with the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 20/10/2023 13:59:40 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1639194

registered interest
date	22/05/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Contracts for Services: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help support companies registered in Northern Ireland compete for UK-wide public contracts.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	186066
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/05/2023 answer text <p>The Procurement Bill, currently being debated by Parliament, will create a simpler and more transparent public procurement regime that will make it easier for suppliers to bid for UK public contracts. Contracting authorities in Northern Ireland are included within the scope of the Bill, so companies registered in Northern Ireland will be able to compete for opportunities from those authorities as well as those on the UK mainland. Companies in Northern Ireland can already access UK public contracting opportunities worth over £12K on Contracts Finder.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 25/05/2023 17:20:21 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1627836

registered interest
date	15/05/2023
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Service: Political Impartiality
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 ensure that the impartiality rules operate in the same manner in each branch of the civil service across the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	184975
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2023 answer text <p>The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of all civil servants to uphold the Civil Service’s core values, which are integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Impartiality, and in particular political impartiality, is one of the fundamental values of the Civil Service. Impartiality means all civil servants must serve the Government, whatever its political persuasion, to the best of their ability.</p><p> </p><p>Civil servants working for the Scottish and Welsh Governments, and their agencies, have their own versions of the code. Similar codes apply to the Northern Ireland civil service and the Diplomatic Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/05/2023 18:31:53 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon