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1691993

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals her Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Department has paid for subscriptions to the following publications in the last three financial years:</p><p>- print editions of all national daily newspapers together with online editions of the Telegraph, Times and Financial Times;</p><p>- The New Statesman;</p><p>- The Spectator;</p><p>- Economist Nursing Times;</p><p>- Private Eye;</p><p>- The Voice;</p><p>- Health Service Journal;</p><p>- GP Online;</p><p>- Pulse;</p><p>- Health Policy Insight;</p><p>- New England Journal of Medicine;</p><p>- Journal of American Medicine;</p><p>- Nature;</p><p>- Bloomberg;</p><p>- PR Week; and</p><p>- I News.</p><p> </p><p>The cost of the subscriptions totalled approximately £7,700 per year in financial years 2020/21 and 2021/22 and precisely £7718.08 in 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 05/03/2024 17:01:05 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691994

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15960
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not hold separate data on subscriptions. Many decisions are made by the UK's 281 embassies and diplomatic posts overseas or by individual departments in the UK. As a result, comprehensive information on individual titles is not centrally recorded and collating this information would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Efficiency savings are made on core titles by providing these centrally online as part of library services and by partnering with other Government Departments to obtain best value for money. These are reviewed annually. Over the last three financial years, the titles listed below have been supplied centrally through the FCDO Library.</p><p>The breadth of titles reflects the wide range of issues, events, and crises the FCDO's staff around the world need to keep track of to protect the UK's interests at home and overseas.</p><p>a] Newspapers</p><p>Bloomberg News; China Global South Project; The Daily Telegraph; The Economist; The Financial Times; Le Monde Diplomatique; The Local - Europe &amp; Sweden (from 2022); The New York Times; Nikkei Asia; Politico Pro; PressReader (over 6,000 titles from 130 countries); South China Morning Post (from 2022); The Times &amp; Sunday Times; The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.</p><p>b] Magazines</p><p>The New Statesman (from 2023) and The Spectator. Other titles are also available via PressReader.</p><p>c] Online Journals</p><p>Africa Confidential; Africa Intelligence (from 2023); Africa Report (from 2023); African Conflict &amp; Peacebuilding Review; American Economic Review; Annual Review of Economics; Arab Digest; British Medical Journal (to January 2022) Borderlex; Diplomat; Economic and Political Weekly; Elsevier/Science Direct (4,000 titles); European Council Studies (to December 2021); Intelligence Online (to September 2021); International Affairs; Jeune Afrique; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Democracy; Journal of Japanese Studies; Nature; Nature Climate Change; Nature Food (from 2023); Nature Geoscience (to January 2024); NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Paper Series; NK News; Prospect; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Science; Taylor Francis Package (2,500 titles); Wiley Social Science &amp; Humanities package (to January 2022); World Economics and World Politics; World Trade Online (to January 2022).</p> answering member constituency Macclesfield answering member printed David Rutley question first answered 05/03/2024 10:17:45 answering member 4033 label Biography information for David Rutley
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691995

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15961
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>HMT’s expenditure on these areas is published as part of the departments on-going support of the transparency reporting programme. These can be viewed using the links below.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gpc-spend</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/25000-spend</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder</a></p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 05/03/2024 10:14:44 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691996

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15962
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>To answer for the whole department would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p>Newspapers and magazines that communications directorate and private office have subscribed to in the last three financial years are listed below.</p><p>a) Newspapers:</p><p>The Daily Express<br> The Daily Mail<br> The Daily Mirror<br> The Daily Telegraph<br> The Financial Times and FT.Com<br> The Guardian<br> The Sun<br> The Times<br> Sunday Times online</p><p>b) Magazines:</p><p>Campaign Magazine<br> Harvard Business Review <br> PR Week online<br> Private Eye<br> Spectator<br> The Economist<br> The New Statesman</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 05/03/2024 16:19:02 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691997

registered interest
date	27/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Press
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what subscriptions to (a) newspapers, (b) magazines and (c) online journals his Department has paid for in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15963
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2024 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Some information is available for the Directorate of Defence Communications (DDC) as the lead branch for communications within the Ministry of Defence. The total DDC spend for online and hard copy Newspapers for the last financial year is £12,500. Further information cannot be provided as it cannot be separated out from other expenditure nor is it readily available for previous financial years.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 05/03/2024 14:16:56 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691664

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
answering body	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept id	208
answering dept short name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
hansard heading	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>As part of the 2022 to 2025 Roadmap for Digital and Data, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10 per cent of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025. This is to drive modernisation and digitisation in Government, improving public services for the British people and saving taxpayer money. Overall good progress has been made, with total vacancies now at 15 per cent.</p><p>FCDO reports biannually to Cabinet Office on our Digital and Data workforce as defined in the Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework. Our last return, in November 2023, had a vacancy rate of 15.7 per cent.</p> answering member constituency Sutton Coldfield answering member printed Mr Andrew Mitchell question first answered 04/03/2024 10:22:08 answering member 1211 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Mitchell
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691665

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>As part of the 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10% of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025</p><p>This is to drive modernisation and digitisation in Government, improving public services for the British people and saving taxpayer money</p><p>Overall good progress has been made, with total vacancies now at 15%</p><p>The Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, defining the scope of the digital and data profession, outlines capability standards for roles and skills in the profession. It enables professionals, line managers and hiring managers to have a common understanding of roles and provides a strong foundation for recruitment</p><p>In our latest assessment in October 2023, we had 11 vacancies which is 13% of Digital roles in HM Treasury.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 04/03/2024 12:18:35 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691666

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>There are 2691 digital roles within the departments’ digital function, of which 6% (160) are currently vacant.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 04/03/2024 17:23:51 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691667

registered interest
date	26/02/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Ministry of Defence: Vacancies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of digital roles within his Department were vacant as of 26 February 2024.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2024 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has 925 vacant posts aligned to digital roles which makes up 27.5% as the proportion of the total civilian digital workforce across Defence. Please note that these vacant posts may not be under any recruitment action at this time.</p><p> </p><p>As part of the 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, all departments made a commitment to reduce their digital and data vacancies to under 10% of total Government Digital and Data headcount by 2025. MOD has adopted the Central Digital and Data Office Digital Data and Technology pay framework and introduced a new Digital Skills Allowance in September 2023 across the entire digital function. This is to enable improved attraction and retention in critical digital and cyber security roles. Recruitment using the Digital Skills Allowance is underway, with some early success in attracting external applicants to some Data and Software Development roles.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 04/03/2024 15:30:54 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

1691402

registered interest
date	23/02/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Treasury: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much funding his Department has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on software updates to legacy computer systems in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	15455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department has incurred some costs in relation to software updates to legacy computer systems; however, this information is not readily available, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford answering member printed Gareth Davies question first answered 29/02/2024 13:39:23 answering member 4850 label Biography information for Gareth Davies
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds