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1687343

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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 his Department is taking to ensure that Government data which is shared with third-party organisations is protected.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	13006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office, in the Cabinet Office, sets the policy and leads the cross-government approach to the safe, ethical, legal and secure sharing of government data. They work with the Government Security Group, who also lead on the topic of Supply Chain Security.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>When sharing personal data with third party organisations, departments must make sure data is used fairly, lawfully and transparently, in compliance with the data protection principles set in UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. This includes having the requisite data protection controls and governance in place and working with vendors and partners to identify and remediate any risks. All government contracts with suppliers must consider the security of all information and set expectations for how it should be protected.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Departments are responsible for managing their security risks, including the risks to their information that is held and processed by authorised third-parties. The Government Security Standard, local security policies and assurance frameworks such as the Cyber Assessment Framework set out how they should do this. These frameworks and good practice have been collaboratively developed by the Cabinet Office, the National Cyber Security Centre and Departments themselves.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 13/02/2024 15:52:28 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1669094

registered interest
date	09/11/2023
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 assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of cross-departmental implementation of the Government Cloud First policy.
tabling member constituency	Stevenage
tabling member printed	Stephen McPartland
uin	1121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, is responsible for the Government’s Cloud strategy and for advising government departments on Cloud.</p><p>CDDO has a quarterly data commissioning process that collects metrics across a number of strategic areas including cloud adoption. Central government organisations report their estimated percentage of technology assets hosted on cloud. Further to this, CDDO operates the Quarterly Business Review, a joint Cabinet Office-HM Treasury assurance review of departmental delivery that allows CDDO to query departmental progress on implementing cloud first adoption.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 17/11/2023 12:10:25 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	4093 label Biography information for Stephen McPartland

1643504

registered interest
date	09/06/2023
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 his Department is taking to protect information classified as secret or above in the event of the theft of a Government electronic device.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	188786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2023 answer text <p>Information classified as SECRET or above, should only be managed on appropriately encrypted devices. Such devices are secured by robust physical, procedural and personnel security measures. In addition, any encrypted devices that provide for access to SECRET information are also architected to mitigate the risk of theft or loss.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 19/06/2023 14:59:21 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1524406

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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 the Government is taking to ensure all official-sensitive documents are not distributed via personal channels.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	67273
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes matters of security very seriously. Government Departments routinely provide advice and guidance, including to ministers, on the appropriate handling of Government information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 67274 question first answered 25/10/2022 11:34:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1524408

registered interest
date	19/10/2022
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 the Government is taking to ensure Ministers follow security procedures when dealing with official documents.
tabling member constituency	Vauxhall
tabling member printed	Florence Eshalomi
uin	67274
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2022 answer text <p>The Government takes matters of security very seriously. Government Departments routinely provide advice and guidance, including to ministers, on the appropriate handling of Government information.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 67273 question first answered 25/10/2022 11:34:09 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4870 label Biography information for Florence Eshalomi

1307870

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
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	Government Departments: 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, which of the 139 recommendations identified in the Information Commissioner's Office audit of Government departments will be included as part of the National Data Strategy.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	179577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The audit referred to in the question was a specific audit by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of the Department for Education (DfE). The DfE has been working closely with the ICO since the audit was undertaken in February 2020 to address all the recommendations and published its formal response in January 2021 in the House Library, paper reference DEP2021-0072.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The work being done by DfE in partnership with the ICO to address the audit recommendations, particularly around data sharing policy and strategy, will support good practice across the public, private and third sectors, in line with the aims of the National Data Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Maldon answering member printed Mr John Whittingdale question first answered 20/04/2021 10:28:33 answering member 39 label Biography information for Sir John Whittingdale
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1305113

registered interest
date	23/03/2021
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 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to prevent data breaches when awarding contracts for cloud services to multi-national corporations.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	174285
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 sets out the grounds in which contracting authorities can procure goods, services and works with extreme urgency in exceptional circumstances. In our recently published Green Paper, we have set out our proposals to clarify these rules, learning from the experience in the pandemic.</p><p>The process of implementing the Boardman recommendations began immediately, and the programme is being assured by the Cabinet Office Audit and Risk Committee. We committed to provide an update on implementation six months after publication.</p><p>All G-Cloud suppliers must publicly show their security certifications, standards and approach to personnel security on the Digital Marketplace. Suppliers must also maintain physical and IT security that follows good industry practice to ensure there is no unauthorised access to any confidential information and data. Along with this, suppliers must inform Crown Commercial Service of any data breaches within 48 hours and Crown Commercial Service has the power to undertake security audits of suppliers.</p><p>Transforming Government Procurement will make it easier to take into account issues relating to workplace rights and protections through aligning the value for money definition with that of the Green Book, and removing in certain circumstances the need for wider policy considerations to be linked to the subject matter of the contract.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez grouped question UIN 174282 174284 question first answered 13/04/2021 12:22:29 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

1149071

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government's no deal planning preparations, how many Government Departments have (a) reviewed their reliance on personal data flows from the EU and (b) developed contingency plans to mitigate risks to public sector service provision of that reliance.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	74
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>All government departments have reviewed their reliance on personal data flows from the EU and developed suitable contingency plans to mitigate risks to the public sector service provision of that reliance. Chapter three of the <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/837632/No_deal_readiness_paper.PDF" target="_blank">No Deal Readiness Report</a> provides further information.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/10/2019 10:31:29 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

1029557

registered interest
date	20/12/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2018 to Question 202801, for what reason no reference was made in that Answer to the number of Government Departments which use (a) a system for identifying external emails to recipients and (b) a protocol for timely staff reporting of suspicious emails.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	204633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally. It is the responsibility of each government department to manage how they receive external emails and report suspicious emails based on their security requirements. Domain-based Message Authentication Protocol (DMARC) is the system in which Departments identify external email.</p><p>The NCSC provides guidance and support to government departments on how to implement good cyber hygiene for staff, including the reporting of suspicious emails of which Cabinet Office have no central record of these figures.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 07/01/2019 17:25:19 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1027224

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
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, how many Government Departments use (a) a domain message authentication reporting and conformance cybersecurity system (b) a system for identifying external emails to recipients and (c) a protocol for timely staff reporting of suspicious emails.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	202801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Active Cyber Defence (ACD) is a collection of services implemented by the NCSC that aim to protect the UK from the high-volume commodity attacks that affect people’s everyday lives. Mail Check is one of these services which enables an organisation to authenticate the email they send so that a receiver can determine if it is genuine or fake using Domain-based Message Authentication Protocol (DMARC). The NCSC plans to implement Mail Check for all 44 Central Government departments - in December 2018 95% were actively using Mail Check and 80% had adopted a basic DMARC policy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/12/2018 15:33:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt