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1676458

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Members and Members' Staff: Science and Statistics
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission is taking steps to help increase (a) scientific and (b) statistical literacy among (i) MPs and (ii) MPs' staff.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	uin	5915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The Research and Information Team (R&amp;I) leads on much of the House’s work to support Members and their staff with their research and information needs, including those of a scientific and statistical nature.</p><p>The team provides direct statistical and scientific support to MPs and their staff through the Enquiry Service. In 2022/23, 18,000 individual Member research requests were handled across all topic areas.</p><p>The team publishes resources to help parliamentarians engage with scientific and statistical issues, including:</p><ul><li>Library briefings on <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04446/" target="_blank">How to spot spin and inappropriate use of statistics</a> how to <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05073/" target="_blank">design effective charts</a> and how to <a href="https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn05072/" target="_blank">design effective statistical tables</a></li><li>POST guides to common <a href="https://post.parliament.uk/research-glossary/" target="_blank">scientific research terms</a>, <a href="https://post.parliament.uk/interpreting-research-evidence/" target="_blank">interpreting scientific evidence</a>, and <a href="https://post.parliament.uk/type/resource/" target="_blank">data analysis</a></li></ul><p><br>The team provides wider statistical and scientific support to MPs and their staff through events and training. For example, in 2023 the Library hosted:</p><ul><li>A talk by the Office for National Statistics on how it measures the economy</li><li>Evidence Week in collaboration with the charity Sense About Science and in partnership with Ipsos, the UK Statistics Authority and universities and research institutions from across the UK. More than 160 MPs, Peers and staff participated.</li></ul><p><br>The Library provides courses to enhance research skills, such as a course on finding scientific content and on how to use the Library’s specialist scientific and statistical resources.</p><p>In addition to the work conducted by R&amp;I, the Members’ Services Team (which leads on general training for Members’ staff) and the Select Committee Team (which supports Committee Members) may also meet requests for scientific or statistical training, or work with R&amp;I to address the need.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 12/12/2023 13:06:37 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1676459

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Sanitary Products
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission is taking steps to increase access to period products on the parliamentary estate.
	tabling member constituency	City of Durham
	tabling member printed	Mary Kelly Foy
	uin	5916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The House of Commons Administration is committed to providing free period products across the Commons Estate. These efforts have been supported by the Administration Committee which agreed in September 2023 that an initial trial of free period products should be made permanent.</p><p>The House Administration provides a minimum of one machine supplying free period products in each outbuilding and in multiple locations across the Palace, with 27 machines in total. It is undertaking to widen this access to as many applicable toilets as possible.</p><p>Free provision is supplemented by the continuation of machines offering products to purchase, with 81 across site.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 12/12/2023 13:48:10 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4753 label Biography information for Mary Kelly Foy

1675389

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	House of Commons: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how much the House of Commons spends on (a) total IT infrastructure, (b) IT infrastructure that was first purchased in 2013 or earlier and (c) legacy IT infrastructure each year.
	tabling member constituency	Reading East
	tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
	uin	5277
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>The amount the House of Commons spent on physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructure in financial year 2022/23 was £8,985,950.</p><p>As the House of Commons does not record cost data based on legacy or age status, it isn’t possible to provide answers to parts (b) and (c) of the question.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 12/12/2023 12:58:29 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1675390

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	House of Commons: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, with reference to the guidance by the Central Digital and Data Office entitled Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published on 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by the House of Commons.
	tabling member constituency	Reading East
	tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
	uin	5278
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>Parliament does not rate its IT systems according to the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework provided by the Central Digital and Data Office.</p><p>Priority One of Parliament’s Digital Strategy 2022–25 is ensuring that its digital services are flexible, secure and resilient, and Priority 3 of the Strategy is to make digital more sustainable and scalable by updating our operating models and identifying opportunities to improve ways of working. One of the ways Parliament supports these priorities is by managing its legacy technology burden and risk.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 12/12/2023 13:00:22 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1675621

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2023
	answering body	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept id	18
	answering dept short name	House of Commons Commission
	answering dept sort name	House of Commons Commission
	hansard heading	Parliamentary Estate: Power Failures
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the hon. Member for Broxbourne, representing the House of Commons Commission, how many power cuts have been recorded on the Parliamentary estate in each of the last five years; and where on the estate they occurred.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	5355
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2023 answer text <p>For the purposes of this answer, we are interpreting power cuts to mean loss of power.</p><p>Our records on power losses on the Estate date from 2019, since when 52 incidents have been recorded. The losses range in scale from loss of power to sockets in an individual room to temporary loss of power to a floor in a building.</p><p>These incidents have been recorded in buildings across the Estate; 17 in the Palace of Westminster and 35 spread across the other buildings on the Estate.</p><p>The records do not include (a) the loss of power to some buildings the Northern Estate due to flooding in 2021 and (b) planned maintenance or construction work that requires shutdown of power. Planned power shutdowns are scheduled for out of business hours, including nights and weekends.</p> answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker question first answered 12/12/2023 12:55:42 answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker previous answer version 6718 answering member constituency Broxbourne answering member printed Sir Charles Walker answering member 1493 label Biography information for Sir Charles Walker
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney