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date	14/07/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Audit Office: Email
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 12 July (HL1536), what if any access the National Audit Office has to private emails which they regard as amounting to “substantive discussions or decision generated in the course of conducting government business” but which have not been copied to a government email address.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL2025
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/07/2021 answer text <p>As set out in the answer to HL1536, material amounting to “substantive discussions or decision generated in the course of conducting government business“ should be transferred to the official record and, as such, will be accessible by the NAO in the usual way. In addition, and as set out in Managing Public Money, when the NAO investigates any public sector organisation, it should get full cooperation in provision of papers.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 28/07/2021 09:26:44 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb

1342056

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date	29/06/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Audit Office: Email
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the National Audit Office have the power to access the private emails of either (1) civil servants, (2) special advisers, or (3) ministers, if these have been used for government business relating directly to their investigations.
tabling member printed	Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb
uin	HL1536
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2021 answer text <p>Under the National Audit Act 1983, the Comptroller and Auditor General has a right of access to all documents in the custody or under the control of a department that he reasonably requires for carrying out National Audit Office value for money examinations. There is a similar provision in the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 in relation to examinations by the Comptroller and Auditor General of a documents relating to a department’s accounts.</p><p>The 2013 Cabinet Office <em>Guidance to departments on the use private email </em>is clear that the originator or recipient of a communication should consider whether the information contained in private emails amounts to substantive discussions or decisions generated in the course of conducting government business, and take steps to ensure the relevant information is accessible (e.g. by copying it to a government email address).</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 12/07/2021 15:28:42 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	4297 label Biography information for Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb