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1458929

registered interest
date	20/04/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the contract tendered by her Department on 31 March 2022 with procurement reference 102915, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) level and (b) adequacy of knowledge and understanding of (i) civil servants and (ii) Government Ministers relating to harmful misinformation and disinformation online.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	156414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The contract opportunity is a re-tender of an existing contract for misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis services to support the Counter Disinformation Unit, which brings together capabilities and expertise from across Government to provide a comprehensive picture of the scope, scale, and reach of misinformation and disinformation.</p><p>Ministers and officials work closely with a range of partners with different expertise, including social media platforms, academia, civil society organisations, and commercial partners to ensure a whole society approach to tackling the evolving threat of disinformation and misinformation online.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/04/2022 09:15:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1458354

registered interest
date	19/04/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Internet: Disinformation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the full Statement of Requirements for which her department tendered a contract on 31st March under procurement reference 102915, regarding the monitoring and analysis of potentially harmful misinformation and disinformation online.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	155617
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2022 answer text <p>The contract opportunity is a re-tender of an existing contract for misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis services to support the Counter Disinformation Unit to provide a comprehensive picture of the scope, scale, and reach of misinformation and disinformation.</p><p>The contract has been published in accordance with relevant transparency requirements pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and is currently live. Given the sensitive nature of the contract opportunity relates in part to national security, a statement of requirement is only available upon signing a non-disclosure agreement.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 27/04/2022 09:13:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1455132

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	DLA Piper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the statement of requirements set out by her Department in contract reference 102274 and tendered to DLA Piper UK LLP.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>The statement of requirements for this contract relates to ongoing and future policy developments and therefore cannot be published at this moment in time. It will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 04/04/2022 09:40:34 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1455135

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	DLA Piper
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the legal analysis and advice provided by DLA Piper UK LLP on data protection law and practice in support of the International Data Transfer Regime under the terms of contract reference 102274.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>This specific legal analysis relates to ongoing and future policy development and can therefore not be published at this time, but will be made available in due course.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 04/04/2022 09:41:56 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1455165

registered interest
date	28/03/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, DCMS Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21, published on 16 December 2021, HC 758, if she will make an assessment of the consistency of that Department's higher level of fraud risk appetite during the covid-19 pandemic with the Government's zero-tolerance approach to all internal fraud.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	148113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2022 answer text <p>DCMS and our arms-length bodies have a zero-tolerance approach to any incidents of fraud.</p><p>We have robust due diligence and grant monitoring processes to ensure that government funding is used for the purposes intended.</p><p>Due to the unique circumstances of COVID-19, DCMS agreed to accept a higher tolerance to fraud risk due to the demand for urgent delivery of relief schemes. This was agreed, subject to a number of mitigations including, in particular, investment in our remedial or post-event scrutiny, with Post Event Assurance (PEA) workstreams embedded in COVID-19 relief packages.</p><p>DCMS identified immaterial amounts of fraud in 2020-21 (equivalent to 0.03% of its total budget) which is well within the Department's risk tolerance and average tolerance levels for fraud and error across Central Government (0.5 - 5%). The 2020-21 results of our high-risk COVID-19 packages have been shared with the Public Accounts Committee, at the recall session on 4 November 2021. These findings were tested by the National Audit Office as part of their audit of our year-end accounts. The NAO were satisfied and gave an unqualified opinion on our 2020-21 Accounts.</p><p>We are currently reviewing our fraud risk appetite and plan to revert to pre-COVID-19 fraud tolerance levels for the financial year 2022-23.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 04/04/2022 09:43:31 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1417461

registered interest
date	27/01/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury dated 8 October 2021 regarding her Department's consultation on proposed changes to the UK’s data regulation regime.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	113070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2022 answer text <p>A reply was issued on 28 January 2022.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 01/02/2022 10:24:59 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1403251

registered interest
date	17/01/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Members: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when she plans to respond to the letter from the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury of 8 December 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	105418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2022 answer text <p>A response was issued on 10 January 2022 under the case reference MC2021/20897.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 20/01/2022 08:43:08 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1378134

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Personal Records: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which of the collations of service records maintained by the National Archives covers personnel from (a) officer ranks and (b) other ranks from the Caribbean Regiment serving in the British Army at the end of the Second World War.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	73775
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2021 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence is transferring historic service personnel records to The National Archives over a 6-year period. The majority of military service personnel records transferred to The National Archives to date cover a period before the creation of the Caribbean Regiment in 1944 although collation 11005 does include earlier records of service personnel from the Caribbean who served in the British Army, including between the First and Second World Wars.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 17/11/2021 11:56:56 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1378135

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Personal Records: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which of the collations of service records maintained by the National Archives covers personnel from (a) officer ranks and (b) other ranks from the East Africa Force serving in the British Army at the end of the Second World War.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	73776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2021 answer text <p>The National Archives and the Ministry of Defence are in the first year of a 6-year project to transfer almost 10 million service personnel records to The National Archives. Collations of service records that include personnel from the East Africa Force serving in the British Army at the end of the Second World War have not yet been transferred to The National Archives.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 18/11/2021 13:48:13 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1378136

registered interest
date	12/11/2021
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Personal Records: Armed Forces
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which of the collations of service records maintained by the National Archives covers personnel from (a) officer ranks and (b) other ranks from the British Indian Army serving in the British Army at the end of the Second World War.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	73777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/11/2021 answer text <p>The British Indian Army was administered by the India Office and its historic records are held by the British Library. Although The National Archives does not hold service records relating to personnel from the British Indian Army, it does hold some records relating to casualties and decorations (TNA Series WO 429, WO 430, WO 432, WO 433).</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 18/11/2021 13:49:46 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry