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765156

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date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7589, whether the Minister has made an assessment of differences in risk levels to cyber security between Civil Service staff and staff working for private firms contracted to do work by the Government.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>All roles with access to sensitive information or systems are risk assessed. Staff and<br>contractors are vetted to the appropriate level to manage these risks.</p><p>Contractors working for Government departments are subject to the same security<br>standards and training as civil servants depending on their access to government systems<br>and information. Basic cyber security awareness is an essential protection against attacks<br>such as email phishing and departments are already providing training for their staff and<br>contractors on this.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 14:25:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765159

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Property Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 8211, on the Government Property Unit, how many formal meetings the unit had with each departmental head of estates in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p><strong>The Government Property Unit has held six formal governance meetings of the Property Leaders Board in the last twelve months. In addition ten bilateral meetings, covering the full range of GPU’s business with a department or departmental estates cluster, have been held since September 2016. One cluster now covers seven government departments. As stated in the response on 12 September 2017 there have also been a number of other formal meetings with departments on GPU programmes and the development of policy. These will have involved some heads of estates, but data on attendees by job role will have been captured in meeting minutes only and is not recorded in a central database.</strong></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 09:57:48 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765160

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7037, on Civil Service recruitment, what the other initiatives are which are hoped to bring positive impacts to the diversity of Civil Service recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105437
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service remains committed to becoming the most inclusive employer in the UK, these commitments are set out in the Civil Service Diversity &amp; Inclusion Strategy attached, and also available in the house library. The Strategy sets out how we will build on work delivered as part of the Talent Action Plan to improve the representation of under-represented groups and encourage inclusive behaviours. These priorities will be underpinned by a greater focus on accountability and assurance to deliver better outcomes for a diverse UK.</p><p>The Civil Service aims to be at the forefront of the diversity and inclusion agenda, leading the way in developing diverse and inclusive practices, policies and cultures. For example;</p><ul><li>To drive the changes in representation, each department will set targets on the flow of ethnic minority staff and disabled staff into their SCS.</li><li>A Diverse Leadership Task Force will be established to identify, recruit and develop people with Permanent Secretary potential from ethnic minority and disabled backgrounds.</li><li>The ground breaking Ethnicity Diversity Programme will enable greater innovation and the spread of best practice on increasing the representation of ethnic minorities within our talent pipelines.</li><li>The Disability Inclusion Programme will intensify efforts towards having a fair representation of disabled people at all levels but particularly the SCS.</li><li>Industry standard metrics for inclusion across the Civil Service and other employers across the UK will be established.</li><li>Inclusion will be seen as an essential leadership skill at senior levels in the Civil Service, but also as a basic core skill that all staff should demonstrate. Quality standards for inclusive leadership will be established and incorporated into the competency framework.</li></ul> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 14/11/2017 11:37:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765161

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7037, on Civil Service recruitment, what positive impacts can be measured thus far of the impact of anonymised recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service Diversity &amp; Inclusion Strategy, published on the 16th October, sets out<br>how the Civil Service will approach becoming the most inclusive employer in the UK by<br>2020</p><p>We are committed to making anonymised recruitment the norm in the Civil Service, and<br>this approach sits within a wider suite of initiatives focussed on how this goal can be<br>achieved through innovative recruitment practices. Although, it is not possible to<br>disaggregate the impact of anonymised recruitments in isolation.</p><p>Alongside implementing the Civil Service Diversity &amp; Inclusion Strategy, we will publish<br>guidance and advice of the best evidenced interventions that can lead to a more diverse<br>and inclusive workforce. We will also measure the impact of improved recruitment<br>techniques and publish this data via an online Diversity Data Dashboard by April<br>2018.workforce. We will consider how we will measure the impact of improved recruitment<br>techniques within that work.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 14:49:54 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765162

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 7589, on cybercrime, how much is spent on this type of training for (a) staff and (b) contractors.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The government does not hold figures on the breakdown of security training delivered to<br>staff and contractors centrally. Departments are responsible for ensuring their staff and<br>contractors are appropriately trained, subject to their role, business context and specific<br>risks</p><p>We recognise that targeted training to drastically reduce human error by staff and<br>contractors is crucial to delivering the National Cyber Security Strategy. We have<br>established a Government Security Profession to provide a consistent approach to cyber<br>security skills development across government.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 14:27:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765164

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 14 September 2017 to Question 7365, on Government departments: cybercrime, if he will list the 44 government organisations that are using DNS filtering.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>We do hold the names of organisations using the DNS filtering service. At this time<br>government is not publishing this information while we establish the DNS filtering service</p><p>We intend to publish this data internally within HMG at a future date to effect positive<br>behavioural changes across government. As of the end of September 2017, 73<br>government organisations are using this service.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 14:30:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765167

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Property Unit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2017 to Question 8258, on the Government Property Unit, what the budget is for staff learning and development; and if he will provide details on what that budget has been used for to date.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105511
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>GPU staff have an allocation of £964 per head for training in the current financial year. To<br>date, staff have used an average of £340 per head on training and development</p><p>Examples of the training undertaken include APM project management, and RICS training<br>courses.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 13:05:02 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765307

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Immigration Controls: Heathrow Airport
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 18 September 2017 to Question 10312, how many UK Border Force officers were deployed in each month between August 2016 and August 2017.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	105685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2018 answer text <p>Border Force do not centrally collate rostering data since this is recorded and maintained at port level. There would be a disproportionate cost involved in collating this information from each individual port throughout the UK.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/01/2018 17:34:37 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

765484

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Career Development
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many fast stream civil servants work abroad after completing their five-month European placements.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	106068
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The first cycle of Fast Stream Civil Servants who have completed a five-month European Placement has just ended. Therefore, the Cabinet Office does not currently hold that information.</p><p>Being able to track the careers of Fast Streamers after they have successfully completed the scheme is essential to understand how well we are delivering the Programme's overall goal of being a pipeline of diverse talent into the Senior Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 14:34:11 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

765485

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Property Unit: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8714, on Government Property Unit: staff, from which firm the one employee seconded from outside Government was; and to where the four government secondees went outside Government.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	105938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2017 answer text <p>It is normal practice to review the release of specific information that may risk the identification of individual employees. In my Department, information that involves five or fewer individuals is the threshold at which its release is reviewed. As the individuals involved here are/were not senior staff in my Department, we respectfully decline this request for more detailed information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 23/10/2017 13:02:12 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett