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850745

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Energy: Meters
	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 steps his Department is taking to ensure that smart meters are on schedule to be installed in every household by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129982
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government is committed to ensuring that all homes and small businesses are offered smart meters by the end of 2020. The Programme is well underway with around 400,000 being installed every month.There are now over 8.6 million smart and advanced meters operating across homes and businesses across Great Britain. The rollout of smart meters is on track to deliver significant benefits, including putting an end to estimated bills, and is set to save consumers £300m in 2020 alone.</p><p> </p><p>Energy suppliers are responsible for planning and delivering the roll-out of smart meters, working within the legal framework established by the Government. Energy suppliers’ licence conditions require them to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to roll-out smart meters to all their domestic and small business customers by 31 December 2020. Ofgem is responsible for regulating energy suppliers against this obligation.</p> answering member constituency Devizes answering member printed Claire Perry question first answered 07/03/2018 16:43:22 answering member 3974 label Biography information for Claire Perry
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850746

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	3D Printing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will he make an assessment of the potential contribution of 3D printing to UK GDP by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129983
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2018 answer text <p>The industry backed Additive Manufacturing strategy identifies that the UK’s High Value Manufacturing Sector can capture over £3.5bn per year (Gross Value Added) for the UK of the rapidly growing global market for additive manufacturing products (3D printing) and services by 2025, supporting 60,000 jobs in the knowledge economy and generating new, highly skilled employment opportunities. The industry led Made Smarter Review also identifies the contribution of digitally enabled technologies to manufacturing-including additive manufacturing- to the UK economy to be as much as £455 billion over the next decade.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the Industrial Strategy, we are working closely with UK industry to create the right conditions for competitive, world leading manufacturing businesses to flourish and grow across the UK. Government recognises the importance of 3D printing and additive manufacturing and since 2012 The UK’s EPSRC and Innovate UK’s combined investment in additive manufacturing R&amp;D, including capital grants, has been well over £200 million, helping to develop and maintain UK capability in additive in the UK. In addition we have invested over £300m in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, including establishing the National Centre for Net Shape and Addictive Manufacturing housed in the Manufacture Technology Centre in Coventry. Its aim is to develop production-ready additive manufacturing processes, to overcome barriers to wide-scale adoption, and to work on legislative and standardisation issues to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies such as 3D printing.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 05/03/2018 14:28:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850748

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Data Processing
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an estimate of the potential contribution of machine learning to UK GDP by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129984
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>Machine Learning is a significant technology within Artificial Intelligence (AI) more broadly.</p><p>One estimate published by PWC in 2017 proposed that AI could add £232bn to the UK economy by 2030 [1]. Analysis by Accenture predicts that AI alone could add an Additional £630bn to the economy by 2035 increasing the annual growth rate of GVA from 2.5 to 3.9% [2].</p><p>The Industrial Strategy sets Grand Challenges to put the UK in the vanguard of the industries of the future, ensuring that the UK takes advantage of major global changes, improving people’s lives and the country’s productivity. First among these is the AI and Data-driven Economy Grand Challenge.</p><p><em><strong>[1]</strong></em><em><a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-could-add-232bn-to-UK-gdp.html" target="_blank">https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-could-add-232bn-to-UK-gdp.html</a></em></p><p><strong><em>[2] </em></strong><em><a href="https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/technology/artificial-intelligence-poised-to-double-annual-economic-growth-rate-in-12-developed-economies-and-boost-labor-productivity-by-up-to-40-percent-by-2035-according-to-new-research-by-accenture.htm" target="_blank">https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/technology/artificial-intelligence-poised-to-double-annual-economic-growth-rate-in-12-developed-economies-and-boost-labor-productivity-by-up-to-40-percent-by-2035-according-to-new-research-by-accenture.htm</a></em></p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/03/2018 16:18:25 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850749

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Graphene
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential contribution of graphene to UK GDP by 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>At this point in the lifecycle of such an emergent technology, we cannot make reliable estimates of graphene’s near-term contribution to UK GDP. There is a long lead-in time for new materials to be embedded in technologies, and the case of graphene is no exception. Graphene is increasingly gaining traction across the world. One report has estimated that the global graphene-based products market will grow to $2.1 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46.3%.[1] Over 140 companies in the UK have been active in graphene in the UK. The Government is playing an active role to support the development and exploitation of graphene – including through the projects funded by Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), with universities, and suppliers and end users of graphene, and the foundation of the National Graphene Institute (NGI) and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).</p><p> </p><p>[1] Graphene: Technologies, Applications and Markets, BCC Research, 2016</p> answering member constituency East Surrey answering member printed Mr Sam Gyimah question first answered 07/03/2018 11:54:46 answering member 3980 label Biography information for Mr Sam Gyimah
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850750

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Financial Services: Regulation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of RegTech's potential effect on reducing the administrative burden of regulation.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129986
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>RegTech has significant potential to reduce the administrative burden of regulation. The Financial Conduct Authority is already aware of the opportunities associated with RegTech, and have run a series of ‘tech sprints’ intended to address specific industry challenges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/03/2018 13:47:09 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850775

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cybersecurity: Public Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to ensure robust cyber security in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	130009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2018 answer text <p>The Government takes public sector cyber security very seriously. We support the sector in improving their resilience to cyber attacks and encourage all organisations to implement the advice developed by National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and published on their website (<a href="http://www.ncsc.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.ncsc.gov.uk</a>).</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme continues to be rolled out alongside the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government led <em>Think Cyber Think Resilience</em> initiative which helps councils improve their security and wider cyber resilience awareness.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/03/2018 13:47:42 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850776

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: Digital Technology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he has taken to make improve the use of digital technology in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	130010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The United Kingdom is a recognised world leader in public sector digital innovation. The Government Digital Service (GDS) leads on the digital transformation in government, providing common solutions to problems that government service teams have to tackle repeatedly.</p><p>GDS provides standards, guidance and best practice to help government to build services that work for everyone. GDS works with departments to provide the right technology to help the public sector deliver great services, through technology that meets user needs; makes cross-government collaboration easier; costs less; and will help civil servants to work more flexibly and efficiently.</p><p>The Government Transformation Strategy was published in February 2017. It sets out a vision for transforming the way government operates and delivers services in the digital age and GDS’ role in driving this change. It was developed in conjunction with other government departments and its objectives include business transformation; increasing skills and capability across government; developing better tools, processes and governance; data; and developing more shared platforms such as GOV.UK Notify.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 07/03/2018 11:52:00 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850763

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Cybersecurity: Public Sector
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Cyber Essentials scheme in reducing cyber fraud in the public sector.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129998
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The purpose of the Cyber Essentials scheme is to show all organisations - including those in the public, private and third sectors - how to put basic, technical cyber security measures in place to protect against the most common online threats.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has a much wider programme of activity to protect public sector organisations online, as set out in the National Cyber Security Strategy. One of the core functions of the National Cyber Security Centre is to help protect our critical services from cyber attacks and provide advice to public sector organisations, helping to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/03/2018 13:53:31 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850764

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Cybersecurity: Insurance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps he is taking to support and spread awareness of cyber security insurance amongst businesses.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	129999
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The best way for organisations to manage their cyber risk is by taking the appropriate measures to protect themselves. The Government has set up the National Cyber Security Centre to promote and provide guidance on the best ways for businesses to do this.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Government is working closely with the insurance industry through our quarterly Cyber Insurance Forum to support the sector in developing products and services for businesses and identifying ways the industry can promote these as a means for organisations to further reduce their cyber risk.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/03/2018 13:54:54 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

850767

	registered interest
	date	27/02/2018
	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	Data Protection
	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 he will estimate the contribution of big data to GDP in the current financial year.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	130002
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>Big data, combined with advances in computing technology, is creating new opportunities for business growth across all industry sectors. It enables companies to gain new insights on consumer trends and preferences, improve productivity, and develop innovative new products and services.</p><p> </p><p>Figures are not currently available on the estimated contribution of big data to GDP this financial year, but industry research published by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) in February 2016 estimates that between 2015 and 2020 the total benefit to the UK economy of big data analytics will amount to £241 billion, or £40 billion on average per year. The sectors expected to benefit most include manufacturing, professional services, telecoms and retail.</p><p> </p><p>The CEBR report is available at: <a href="https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_gb/doc/analystreport/cebr-value-of-big-data.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/en_gb/doc/analystreport/cebr-value-of-big-data.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 06/03/2018 13:56:14 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie