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227695

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Staff are not prevented from downloading any news applications for use on their work-provided phones and tablets.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/03/2015 10:29:40 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227701

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>We provide apps on request for Cabinet Office. News apps currently available to our users are:</p><p>BBC News</p><p>Sky News</p><p>The Daily Mail</p><p>The Financial Times</p><p>The Guardian</p><p>The Independent</p><p>The Mirror</p><p>The Spectator</p><p>The Sun</p><p>The Telegraph</p><p>The Times</p><p>We will add new applications as they are requested by our users. I missed some off the list previously but can confirm they are all now available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 227822 question first answered 24/03/2015 16:39:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227745

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
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	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>News applications currently available to DCMS users are BBC News, Sky News, The Daily Mail, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, The Spectator, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.</p> answering member constituency Maidstone and The Weald answering member printed Mrs Helen Grant question first answered 24/03/2015 11:17:45 answering member 4018 label Biography information for Mrs Helen Grant
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227768

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, which news applications staff in his Office are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227822
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>We provide apps on request for Cabinet Office. News apps currently available to our users are:</p><p>BBC News</p><p>Sky News</p><p>The Daily Mail</p><p>The Financial Times</p><p>The Guardian</p><p>The Independent</p><p>The Mirror</p><p>The Spectator</p><p>The Sun</p><p>The Telegraph</p><p>The Times</p><p>We will add new applications as they are requested by our users. I missed some off the list previously but can confirm they are all now available.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 227818 question first answered 24/03/2015 16:39:36 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227769

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which news applications staff in her Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227823
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Mobile devices available to staff in the Department for Education do not permit the downloading of non-standard applications. No ‘news’ applications are available on mobile devices issued to staff.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Staff can access ‘news’ websites via the internet and are bound by the Department’s ‘Acceptable Use of Information Technology’ policy. There are no current plans to change this policy to allow application downloads.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Mr Nick Gibb question first answered 24/03/2015 14:27:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227814

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) provides many of its staff with Blackberrys, but for security reasons the ability to download apps has been disabled. Only one FCO-provided smart phone has authorised news apps downloaded to it. These are the Gorkana press-cuttings and BBC news apps. The apps have been downloaded as part of a pilot to test the viability of smart phone devices for work purposes.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 24/03/2015 14:56:54 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227841

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227827
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Staff in the Department are not allowed to download any news applications onto their work-provided phones.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The relatively small number of mostly senior staff who use tablets provided by the Department can download news applications, subject to conformance with the Department’s Acceptable Use of ICT Policy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 24/03/2015 16:02:10 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227917

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227830
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>MoJ staff can access any news websites via their internet browser. We do block some sites but this does not typically include news sites. In terms of downloadable applications we enable the BBC App and others on demand.</p> answering member constituency North West Cambridgeshire answering member printed Mr Shailesh Vara question first answered 24/03/2015 10:27:39 answering member 1496 label Biography information for Shailesh Vara
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227945

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227833
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>Staff in the Department for Transport and its Agencies are not authorised to download any news applications on their work provided phones and tablets. There is an exception for staff in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) where the following official news applications are available in their works app store to download to their work-provided devices:</p><p> </p><p>· Sky News</p><p>· GOV.UK news</p><p>· Microsoft (Bing) news</p><p> </p><p>Some devices are configured for business and personal use. Application downloads on the business side are prohibited. On the personal side, staff can download applications from the relevant app store at their own expense, but no record is kept.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 24/03/2015 11:15:44 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

227954

registered interest
date	17/03/2015
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, which approved news applications staff in the Government Equalities Office are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	227972
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p>GEO users are not prevented from downloading any news applications for use on their work-provided phones and tablets.</p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 24/03/2015 17:38:43 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies