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<p>The Senior Deputy Speaker has asked me, as Chairman of the Services Committee,
to respond on his behalf. The issue relates to a new security feature introduced as
part of Apple’s iOS update, which affected the sharing of contact information between
the Outlook app and other apps on Apple devices. The Parliamentary Digital Service
is currently working with Microsoft to introduce a fix for this which meets Parliament’s
security requirements to ensure that parliamentary data are held securely, and in
particular to ensure that access to data through non-parliamentary apps does not compromise
security. Once they have a revised fix from Microsoft it will be tested and then if
viable released to users. Parliament’s approach towards the management of and access
to its data is common to that followed in many organisations.</p>
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