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177352

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of hours lost (a) in his Department and (b) across all government departments due to ICT failure.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	223168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Cabinet Office is modernising its internal ICT systems to deliver better services more efficiently.</p><p> </p><p>Each Government Department is responsible for its own ICT. Information about hours lost and helpline calls is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223169 question first answered 09/02/2015 17:55:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

177353

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many telephone calls have been made by (a) officials and (b) ministerial offices to the ICT helpline in (i) his Department and (ii) across all government departments due to ICT problems.
tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
uin	223169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Cabinet Office is modernising its internal ICT systems to deliver better services more efficiently.</p><p> </p><p>Each Government Department is responsible for its own ICT. Information about hours lost and helpline calls is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude grouped question UIN 223168 question first answered 09/02/2015 17:55:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell

90422

registered interest
date	03/09/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance the Government Digital Service issues to department on minimum requirements for IT systems reliability and availability.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	208089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual" target="_blank">The Government Service Design Manual</a> provides guidance and advice on designing and building digital services. This covers both reliability and availability.</p><p>This is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/service-manual</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 08/09/2014 10:44:02 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

64620

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what central oversight takes place to ensure the maximum efficiency in the procuring of information technology contracts for staffing, procurement and payroll services by separate government departments.
tabling member printed	Lord Beecham
uin	HL703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2014 answer text <p>Since 2010 we have imposed tough central expenditure controls on ICT, as well as on consulting, recruitment, marketing and property, to reduce wasteful expenditure and help reduce the fiscal deficit:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-controls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-controls</a></p><p>To further reduce wasteful expenditure, we have implemented a review process for all forthcoming departmental investments on IT with requested spend above £5m.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Gardiner of Kimble question first answered 14/07/2014 17:04:46 answering member 4161 label Biography information for Lord Gardiner of Kimble
tabling member	4181 label Biography information for Lord Beecham

63836

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what audit he has made of (a) ICL mainframes, (b) IBM mainframes and (c) other legacy ICT systems in Government departments and the availability of skills needed to maintain them; and when each relevant maintenance contract falls due.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	202463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Government Digital Service (GDS) has worked to identify legacy IT equipment, which includes a small number of important legacy IBM and ICL mainframes. To ensure these are effectively managed Government is creating a Crown Hosting Service, which is due to go live next year.</p><p>In many cases departments are locked into contracts signed over 10 years ago, by the previous administration, which means they are dependent on suppliers to manage these systems.</p><p>GDS is supporting departments to bring in new skilled officials to address a long-standing lack of digital skills.</p><p> </p><p>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Mr Francis Maude question first answered 30/06/2014 16:30:41 answering member 115 label Biography information for Lord Maude of Horsham
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah