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1000224

registered interest
date	02/11/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) timetable, (b) cost and (c) estimated savings are for the Foxhound IT programme.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	187356
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>FOXHOUND is a Cabinet Office-led, cross-government IT programme to develop and deploy a new secure capability for managing sensitive information, including that which is classified up to and at SECRET. The aim is to bear down on the growing information and cyber risk, whilst improving scope for collaboration across the National Security community. The single platform this capability offers will enable some security related savings to be made and an outline Programme timetable and costs are published in Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) annual reports on Major Projects (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721978/IPA_Annual_Report_2018__2_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721978/IPA_Annual_Report_2018__2_.pdf</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-and-projects-authority-annual-report-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-and-projects-authority-annual-report-2018</a>)</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/11/2018 09:57:43 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

997229

registered interest
date	29/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contracts the Government holds with cloud based providers to store data; and what the total cost of these contracts to the public purse is.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	185114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2018 answer text <p>Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search</a></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 01/11/2018 15:51:20 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

994167

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are employed across all government departments to build or maintain IT systems.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	183248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold data relating to the number of cross government IT specialists employed specifically to build or maintain IT systems. This information may be held at a departmental level.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 29/10/2018 13:48:02 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

984386

registered interest
date	09/10/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent estimate he has made of the number of cyber specialists vacancies in Government.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	177383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/10/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold figures on the number of vacancies across HMG. Departments are responsible for ensuring adequate staffing levels are met. As part of the National Cyber Security Strategy we have established a central team to develop the security profession, supporting departments in managing their cyber skills gaps and building career pathways for specialists.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 15/10/2018 10:23:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

843713

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to award cloud hosting contracts only to US hyperscale cloud providers; how many and what proportion of Government cloud hosting contracts have been awarded to hyperscale cloud providers and what the value was of those contracts in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	North Wiltshire
tabling member printed	James Gray
uin	128074
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>It is not government policy to award only to US hyperscale cloud providers. It is our policy to award contracts on the basis of value for money, whilst doing everything we can to encourage UK suppliers, and UK SME's in particular, to win business. This is achieved through competitive tender in accordance with public procurement legislation.</p><p> </p><p>Information on cloud hosting contracts for Government as a whole is not held centrally.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 22/02/2018 16:57:22 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	261 label Biography information for James Gray

843871

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of Government digital and technology spending was with large companies in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	128293
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>Full information on government digital and technology spending with large companies is not held centrally.</p><p>Information on spending through the Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Marketplace can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-marketplace-sales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-marketplace-sales</a></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/02/2018 17:10:05 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

843876

registered interest
date	19/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on enforcing Government Digital Service standards on providers of shared services.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	128142
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service has lead responsibility for the development of digital and technology guidance and standards in central Government including their assurance through devolved mandated powers from Treasury. This is achieved through Technology Code of Practice for investment, the Digital by Default Service Standard for design, build and delivery and the Government Service Design Manual for best practice. All Government departments are required by policy to follow the standards and guidance when developing new IT and digital solutions.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 26/02/2018 17:15:16 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

838984

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse is of the delayed completion by more than three months of Government IT projects since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	127545
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given to PQ127332 on 26<sup>th</sup> February.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 127546 question first answered 21/03/2018 11:36:51 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

838985

registered interest
date	08/02/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the additional cost to the public purse was of delays of more than three months in the completion of Government IT projects in each Department since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bethnal Green and Bow
tabling member printed	Rushanara Ali
uin	127546
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>I refer my Hon. Friend to the answer given to PQ127332 on 26<sup>th</sup> February.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden grouped question UIN 127545 question first answered 21/03/2018 11:36:51 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4138 label Biography information for Rushanara Ali

808829

registered interest
date	18/12/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, what information his Department plans to collect to monitor Departments’ take up of that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119938
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>There will be no specific information collected from departments to monitor departments’ take up, as this is a guidance document and has been drafted with the aim of departments learning from each other’s experiences when exiting their major IT contracts by providing case studies and making reference to other useful material, including policy.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 07/03/2018 10:34:36 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett