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1698429

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
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, which legacy IT systems across Government were identified as red-rated by the Central Digital and Data Office.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	20313
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/04/2024 answer text <p>It would be inappropriate to release sensitive information held about specific red-rated systems within departmental IT estates, or information that could allow the assumption of which systems are at risk, as it could highlight potential security weaknesses.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, has established a programme to support departments in treating legacy. CDDO has agreed a framework to identify ‘red-rated’ systems, indicating high levels of risk surrounding assets. Departments have committed to have remediation plans in place for these systems by next year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 15/04/2024 16:58:21 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1686424

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
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 criteria his Department uses to determine the security standard of hardware devices before they are purchased by Government.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	12424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p>The Government Cyber Security Standard requires government organisations to meet or exceed the security outcomes specified in the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). This includes specific security outcomes in relation to the secure configuration and management of devices.</p><p>As the CAF is outcomes-based, it does not specify which commercially available devices meet these security requirements or which vendors government organisations should buy their devices from. That is a matter for government organisations to determine locally, in consultation with their commercial, security and IT teams, based on their organisation’s business needs, risk tolerance and threat profile.</p><p>In addition, in November 2023 we published the cross-government Mobile Device Management policy to help government organisations and their Arms Length Bodies keep their corporately owned mobile devices secure and prevent data breaches. NCSC also provides guidance on how to securely configure devices from each of the most commonly used platforms.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 12425 question first answered 08/02/2024 16:29:21 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1684130

registered interest
date	22/01/2024
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 the National Security Council has received briefings on red-rated legacy computer systems used by Government departments in the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Wythenshawe and Sale East
tabling member printed	Mike Kane
uin	10820
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>The National Security Council (NSC) is a committee of Cabinet and is bound by the same rules and conventions as all Cabinet Committees. Information about discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees are not normally publicly shared.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 29/01/2024 17:22:19 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4316 label Biography information for Mike Kane

1665386

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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, if he will make an estimate of Government spending on legacy IT systems 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	203101
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Through the work the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is currently undertaking we are seeking to develop an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across ministerial departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO has established a programme to support the Government remediating its legacy technology, resulting in a new risk-based framework designed to assess legacy IT assets within government departments. Through this legacy framework CDDO has collated a list of the highest risk systems across ministerial departments and followed up on this to ensure that they all have appropriate funding and remediation plans in place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO is building a community of practice across government for legacy remediation which will enable the capture of lessons learnt and best practice for dissemination and sharing cross-government to accelerate legacy remediation. This will enable CDDO to create an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across Ministerial Departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The cost to the public purse of external contractors used to maintain legacy IT estate cross-government is not centrally held.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is unable to provide an estimate for the whole of government in relation to the years specified, as this is a devolved matter for individual departments and their Accounting Officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 203102 203103 203104 question first answered 20/10/2023 13:10:46 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1665389

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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 steps the Government is taking to replace legacy IT systems; and what the estimated expenditure on replacing those systems is.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	203102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Through the work the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is currently undertaking we are seeking to develop an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across ministerial departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO has established a programme to support the Government remediating its legacy technology, resulting in a new risk-based framework designed to assess legacy IT assets within government departments. Through this legacy framework CDDO has collated a list of the highest risk systems across ministerial departments and followed up on this to ensure that they all have appropriate funding and remediation plans in place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO is building a community of practice across government for legacy remediation which will enable the capture of lessons learnt and best practice for dissemination and sharing cross-government to accelerate legacy remediation. This will enable CDDO to create an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across Ministerial Departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The cost to the public purse of external contractors used to maintain legacy IT estate cross-government is not centrally held.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is unable to provide an estimate for the whole of government in relation to the years specified, as this is a devolved matter for individual departments and their Accounting Officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 203101 203103 203104 question first answered 20/10/2023 13:10:46 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1665390

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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 was the cost to the public purse of external contractors used to maintain legacy IT systems in the most recent period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	203103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Through the work the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is currently undertaking we are seeking to develop an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across ministerial departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO has established a programme to support the Government remediating its legacy technology, resulting in a new risk-based framework designed to assess legacy IT assets within government departments. Through this legacy framework CDDO has collated a list of the highest risk systems across ministerial departments and followed up on this to ensure that they all have appropriate funding and remediation plans in place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO is building a community of practice across government for legacy remediation which will enable the capture of lessons learnt and best practice for dissemination and sharing cross-government to accelerate legacy remediation. This will enable CDDO to create an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across Ministerial Departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The cost to the public purse of external contractors used to maintain legacy IT estate cross-government is not centrally held.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is unable to provide an estimate for the whole of government in relation to the years specified, as this is a devolved matter for individual departments and their Accounting Officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 203101 203102 203104 question first answered 20/10/2023 13:10:46 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1665395

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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, if he will make an estimate of the (a) number of items and (b) cost to the public purse of Government IT equipment introduced in the (i) 1980's, (ii) 1990's and (iii) 2000's.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	203104
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>Through the work the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) is currently undertaking we are seeking to develop an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across ministerial departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO has established a programme to support the Government remediating its legacy technology, resulting in a new risk-based framework designed to assess legacy IT assets within government departments. Through this legacy framework CDDO has collated a list of the highest risk systems across ministerial departments and followed up on this to ensure that they all have appropriate funding and remediation plans in place.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>CDDO is building a community of practice across government for legacy remediation which will enable the capture of lessons learnt and best practice for dissemination and sharing cross-government to accelerate legacy remediation. This will enable CDDO to create an overview of the magnitude of the legacy estate initially across Ministerial Departments.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The cost to the public purse of external contractors used to maintain legacy IT estate cross-government is not centrally held.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is unable to provide an estimate for the whole of government in relation to the years specified, as this is a devolved matter for individual departments and their Accounting Officers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 203101 203102 203103 question first answered 20/10/2023 13:10:46 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1580922

registered interest
date	25/01/2023
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, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2023 to Question 125341 on Government Departments: ICT, where cloud providers publish information on their investment activities in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	132401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2023 answer text <p>While there is no statutory requirement for cloud providers to publish information on their investment activities in the UK, they regularly publish a range of information in the public domain, for example on company websites and blogs.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 30/01/2023 17:15:44 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1567818

registered interest
date	17/01/2023
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 providers of IT cloud infrastructure to Government bodies are required to report on their investment in R&D in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	125341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2023 answer text <p>There is not a contractual requirement for IT cloud infrastructure providers to report on R&amp;D investment. This is mainly due to cloud providers operating outside of the classical, managed outsourcing model. The cloud providers do, however, publish information on their investment activities in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 25/01/2023 17:54:47 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1458900

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
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, if he will review the appropriateness of arrangements and guidance on the use of WhatsApp and other electronic communications to conduct Government business with reference to (a) security, (b) transparency and (c) accountability.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	156569
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2022 answer text <p>Government has arrangements and guidance in place for the management of all electronic communications. As with all guidance, this is kept under review and updated as necessary. We are currently awaiting the judgement in legal proceedings in relation to government policy in this area. As such, I am not able to comment any further at this time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 25/04/2022 17:02:06 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake