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584012

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Business
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will provide an update on the mission-led business review.
tabling member constituency	Bristol East
tabling member printed	Kerry McCarthy
uin	46540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The mission-led business review is in progress. We are reviewing the evidence gathered through the call for evidence and regional events and working with the advisory panel in order to publish findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 10/10/2016 13:17:09 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson
tabling member	1491 label Biography information for Kerry McCarthy

584013

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Ministerial Policy Advisers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department plans to publish a list of its special advisers in post.
tabling member constituency	Clacton
tabling member printed	Mr Douglas Carswell
uin	46562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p><strong></strong>A full list of Government special advisers will be published in due course, in the usual way.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/10/2016 08:31:31 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1527 label Biography information for Mr Douglas Carswell

584014

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials of his Department have responsibilities for cyber security.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>Transparency data on Cabinet Office staffing can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-staff-and-salary-data-as-at-31-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-staff-and-salary-data-as-at-31-march-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/10/2016 09:19:56 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

584015

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take to improve the clarity of advice to government departments on protecting data.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/security-policy-framework/hmg-security-policy-framework" target="_blank">Security Policy Framework</a> has clear requirements on Information Assurance which are mandatory for departments. They include a range of measures including the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications" target="_blank">Classification Policy</a> which set out expectations of how government will protect the wide variety of information that it generates, collects, processes, stores and exchanges appropriately and effectively. As the NAO report acknowledges, the UK government is acknowledged as a world leader in this area.</p><p>However, we are conscious that these policies and structures have grown organically over time and need to keep pace with Government’s digital transformation plans. So the Cabinet Office conducted its own review of Government security in early 2016 and many of the findings are consistent with the NAO report. We are already starting to implement the recommendations in the review.</p><p>For example, we are already well underway in strengthening oversight of information security by bringing together nine separate central teams into just two. We have also appointed the Government’s first ever Chief Security Officer to bring together all disciplines of government security under central leadership. As part of this work Cabinet Office is working with GCHQ and the Government Digital Service to rationalise and clarify the guidance to departments on information security and protecting data. The National Cyber Security Centre which is due to stand up in the autumn will also play a lead role in advising departments on cyber security.</p><p>But we can and will do more and we will respond fully to this report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 46669 question first answered 10/10/2016 09:18:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

584016

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Public Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the estimated annual annual cost to the public purse is of the Office of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The costs related to the Office of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will be accounted for in the usual way in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/10/2016 08:34:07 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

584017

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his assessment is of the implications for the Government's policies on data protection of the findings of the NAO report, Protecting information across the government, published in September 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46669
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/security-policy-framework/hmg-security-policy-framework" target="_blank">Security Policy Framework</a> has clear requirements on Information Assurance which are mandatory for departments. They include a range of measures including the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications" target="_blank">Classification Policy</a> which set out expectations of how government will protect the wide variety of information that it generates, collects, processes, stores and exchanges appropriately and effectively. As the NAO report acknowledges, the UK government is acknowledged as a world leader in this area.</p><p>However, we are conscious that these policies and structures have grown organically over time and need to keep pace with Government’s digital transformation plans. So the Cabinet Office conducted its own review of Government security in early 2016 and many of the findings are consistent with the NAO report. We are already starting to implement the recommendations in the review.</p><p>For example, we are already well underway in strengthening oversight of information security by bringing together nine separate central teams into just two. We have also appointed the Government’s first ever Chief Security Officer to bring together all disciplines of government security under central leadership. As part of this work Cabinet Office is working with GCHQ and the Government Digital Service to rationalise and clarify the guidance to departments on information security and protecting data. The National Cyber Security Centre which is due to stand up in the autumn will also play a lead role in advising departments on cyber security.</p><p>But we can and will do more and we will respond fully to this report in due course.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer grouped question UIN 46601 question first answered 10/10/2016 09:18:45 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

584018

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Financial Services: Regulation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the Financial Reporting Council's ability to work with other financial regulators in the UK to address the systematic financial risk of climate change.
tabling member constituency	Brent North
tabling member printed	Barry Gardiner
uin	46611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>Although the Financial Reporting Council’s remit does not extend to the systemic financial risks of climate change, I am confident of its ability to collaborate effectively with any financial regulators, as required, within whose remit such risks fall.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 10/10/2016 15:27:13 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	146 label Biography information for Barry Gardiner

584022

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Concentrix
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire have had a tax credit claim stopped by Concentrix; and how many such claims were subsequently reinstated by HM Revenue and Customs.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	46649
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) does not hold the data broken down specifically by constituency areas. HMRC are able to obtain data by geographical areas but this would only be available at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/10/2016 15:24:35 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

584023

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Fuels: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits to the economy of reducing both fuel duty and VAT on all fuels.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	46652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>Fuel duty was frozen for its sixth successive year at Budget 2016, saving the average driver £75 every year compared to the pre-2010 fuel duty escalator plans. Like all taxes, the government keeps fuel duty under review, with all options considered and announcements made at fiscal events. Under the current legal framework there is no scope to apply a reduced rate of VAT to all fuels.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/10/2016 15:17:31 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

584029

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the surplus/deficit in the National Insurance Fund is.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	46560
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>There are two separate National Insurance Funds (NIF) one for Great Britain and a significantly smaller Northern Ireland Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The balance on the GB NIF as at 31 March 2015 was £20.9bn and the Northern Ireland NIF was £0.5bn. These balance can be found in the accounts which were published on 29 October 2015, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-insurance-fund-accounts.</p><p> </p><p>The NIF accounts for the year ending 31 March 2016 are currently in the process of being audited prior to publication.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 10/10/2016 15:27:27 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton