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1023989

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to answer Question 169861 on Government: Databases tabled on 3 September 2018.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	201713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/02/2019 answer text <p>I responded to Question 169861 on 30/01/19. The response can be found here:</p><p>https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-09-03/169861/</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 04/02/2019 16:45:29 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1024009

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
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 27 November 2018 to Question 196203 and with reference to the Government's Technology Code of Practice principles Cloud First policy, whether it is Government policy to prevent any government department or service from storing cloud-based data hosted in any specific nation states.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	201721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Neither the Technology Code of Practice nor the Cloud First Policy directly prevent government departments or services from storing cloud based data in any specific nation state. It is the responsibility of each government department to take risk-based decisions about their use of cloud providers for the storage of government data.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 07/01/2019 17:16:11 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1023168

registered interest
date	11/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to allow UK cyber security and threat intelligence researchers to protect organisations through the supply of threat intelligence.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	201216
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2018 answer text <p>The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) has undergone several amendments to ensure it keeps pace with the evolving threat, including most recently in 2015. The Home Office keeps the CMA under regular review to determine any potential benefits and drawbacks of legislative change, including through engagement with the cyber security sector.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 17/12/2018 16:58:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1022825

registered interest
date	10/12/2018
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	General Practitioners
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2018 to Question 188904, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	200666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to assess the adequacy of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) voluntary erasure code in cases where a general practitioner (or any other doctor) is under investigation.</p><p> </p><p>As the independent regulator of doctors in the United Kingdom the GMC sets the standards all doctors must follow to practise in the UK. It is responsible for how it discharges its statutory duties, including the processes for considering applications for voluntary erasure as set out in legislation.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 13/12/2018 12:05:18 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1020260

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Local Government: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the number of local authorities utilising a protective domain name system.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	199481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>There are several commercial Protective DNS services available alongside the one provided by the NCSC. We do not hold the figure on how many Departments use these commercial providers and can only provide information for those using the NCSC offer. 143 UK local authorities are actively using NCSC’s Protective DNS service with a further 91 going through the onboarding process. GSG and NCSC are actively working with local authorities to adopt the use of the Protective DNS service.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 10/12/2018 14:18:36 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1020459

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made any assessment of the effect on the international competitiveness of UK companies as a result of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	199482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office keeps the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) under regular re-view. No estimate has been made of the size of the impact of the Computer Misuse Act (if any) on the competitiveness of UK businesses.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 10/12/2018 17:54:55 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1015347

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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, what factors are taken into consideration when decisions are taken on storing government data by contracted private sector cloud companies.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	196203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>In order to establish the merits of storing government data with a contracted private sector cloud company, departments should use the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/technology-code-of-practice/technology-code-of-practice" target="_blank">Technology Code of Practice </a>principles and follow the government <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-cloud-first-policy" target="_blank">Cloud First policy</a>. Both of these policies provide clear guidelines of the things a department should consider, recognising that there is not one single solution for all departments.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of each government department to take risk-based decisions about their use of cloud providers for the storage of government data up to “OFFICIAL” level. When considering a commercial provider, departments should take into account the cloud security principles developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (<a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/implementing-cloud-security-principles" target="_blank">https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/implementing-cloud-security-principles</a>).</p><p> </p><p>Finally, the solution must provide the best value for the taxpayer.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 03/12/2018 16:36:01 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1015348

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications (a) submitted to and (b) approved by the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund there were in each of the three award ranges set out in the application guidance.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	196204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The assessment process for applications made to the expanded Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) is ongoing and the outcomes will be announced in early 2019. The CSIIF pilot, launched in February 2018, received 25 applications and seven initiatives were supported.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/12/2018 17:08:36 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1015349

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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	Cybercrime: Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2018 to Question 190517, Cybercrime: Small Businesses, whether Government funding is available to small and medium-sized businesses to help them achieve CyberEssentials certification.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	196205
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>There is currently no central Government funding to help small and medium-sized businesses achieve Cyber Essentials certification. However, the scheme was designed to be suitable for organisations of all sizes in all sectors; and particularly for small and medium-sized businesses. Any organisation can use the advice for free and implement the scheme themselves. For those that want a certificate, the cost - which is set by the market - starts at around £300.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/12/2018 17:09:19 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1015355

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
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: New Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Cyber Accelerator Scheme, what steps he has taken to ensure that the results of technological and cyber innovation funded by public investment are made available to the public.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	196207
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>The main goal of the Accelerator programme is to create a growing, innovative and thriving cyber security sector in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The NCSC Cyber Accelerator and London Office for Rapid Cyber Advancement help drive the development of cutting-edge cyber products and dynamic new cyber security companies that will benefit both home users and businesses.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 03/12/2018 17:11:56 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt