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1127158

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reasons his Department determined that hiring a principal cyber security risk consultant was necessary.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	255272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p><strong>The Government Digital Service (GDS) Information Assurance (IA) Team focuses on risks to the digital services that GDS builds and uses, as well as the data those services handle. GDS and Cabinet Office require specialist security support in the building and running of our own digital products and internal operations. This role will provide subject matter expertise for cyber and information security risk assessment. </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 21/05/2019 16:10:04 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1126674

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many contingent workers are working on IT projects across government.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	254150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not hold this information. Workforce planning is primarily the responsibility of each department, to determine based on their individual operational and policy requirements.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 22/05/2019 10:59:12 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1127162

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of staff in his Department work on cyber security issues.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	255274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>I shall write to the honourable member with a breakdown and place a copy in the Library of both Houses ahead of Whitsun Recess.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 16:37:03 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1126675

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many workers hired through supplier resource are working on IT projects across government.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	254151
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/05/2019 answer text <p>GDS and the Cabinet Office do not hold data relating to the number of cross-government IT staff hired through supplier resource.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 22/05/2019 11:00:34 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1126682

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Huawei: 5G
	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 14 May 2019 to Question 252605 on Huawei: 5G, and with reference to the February 2019 blog by the technical director of the National Cyber Security Centre on Huawei, whether the National Cyber Security Centre monitors the number of UK telecoms operators that utilise HCSEC advice and guidance.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	254274
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>High risk vendors are not in our most sensitive networks. On telecoms CNI, the Communications Act 2003 places an obligation on Telecoms operators to ensure that they have 'appropriate measures' in place to manage the security and resilience of the network. Ofcom are responsible for ensuring that operators meet their obligations under the Communications Act. In addition, the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) was established in 2010 as part of a wide mitigation strategy to minimise risk to the UK telecoms critical national infrastructure.</p><p> </p><p>The HCSEC Oversight Board’s reports are publicly available and all telecommunications operators have access to its information. The latest Oversight Board report states that in 2018, several hundred vulnerabilities and issues were reported by HCSEC to UK operators. This information is expected to be fed into the operator’s corporate risk management processes. As I said in my Answer of 14 May, it is the responsibility of operators to ensure the security and resilience of their networks.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 16:39:04 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1127167

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the effect of recruitment of a Principal Cyber Security Risk Consultant on the recruitment processes for the (a) Government Chief Security Officer and (b) Chief Data Officer.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	255392
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p><strong>The Principal Cyber Security Risk Consultant role</strong> <strong>is focussed on the information and cyber security of the digital services GDS builds, operates and uses. As such there is no direct effect on the recruitment of a Government Chief Security Officer and a Chief Data Officer.</strong></p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 21/05/2019 16:04:23 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1127191

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Fossil Fuels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of the report entitled A False Promise of Prosperity, published by Platform in October of 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255377
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Prosperity Fund has considered the findings of the report; we are confident the Prosperity Fund programmes are consistent with the UK government’s commitments, under the Paris Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>Within the portfolio, there are a considerable number of programmes where we are working with partner countries to increase their resilience to climate change, to reduce emissions, and to transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Fund’s energy related initiatives do not directly finance oil and gas exploration or production. They aim to help create policy and business environments that improve energy access, strengthen energy markets, encourage investment and promote energy efficiency. In turn this will improve energy security, and enable a faster transition to a cleaner, low carbon economy. This is consistent with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5<sup>o</sup>C that oil and gas will continue to be an essential part of the global energy mix as we transition to a low carbon economy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 16:01:20 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1127192

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Developing Countries: Fossil Fuels
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings the report entitled A False Promise of Prosperity, published by Platform in October 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	255378
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Prosperity Fund has considered the findings of the report; we are confident the Prosperity Fund programmes are consistent with the UK government’s commitments, under the Paris Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>Within the portfolio, there are a considerable number of programmes where we are working with partner countries to increase their resilience to climate change, to reduce emissions, and to transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.</p><p> </p><p>The Fund’s energy related initiatives do not directly finance oil and gas exploration or production. They aim to help create policy and business environments that improve energy access, strengthen energy markets, encourage investment and promote energy efficiency. In turn this will improve energy security, and enable a faster transition to a cleaner, low carbon economy. This is consistent with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in their Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5<sup>o</sup>C that oil and gas will continue to be an essential part of the global energy mix as we transition to a low carbon economy.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 15:59:41 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1126673

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	National Security Council: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what discussions the Cabinet Secretary has had with the representatives of the Metropolitan police on the alleged leak of information from a meeting of the National Security Council.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	254149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has cooperated fully on the leak of information from the NSC with the Metropolitan Police, who are operationally independent of Government. As made clear in his statement of the 4<sup>th</sup> May Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu stated that he had ‘spoken to the Cabinet Office’ and that he was ‘satisfied that the disclosure did not amount to a criminal offence… no crime has been committed and this is not a matter for the police’</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 15:36:49 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

1127163

	registered interest
	date	16/05/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what relationship the incoming Principal Cyber Security Risk Consultant will have with the National Cyber Security Centre.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	255275
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2019 answer text <p><strong>There is no direct relationship. This post is focussed on the information and cyber security of the digital services GDS builds, operates and uses.</strong> <strong>The Government has taken steps to </strong><strong>align cyber security programmes across Government, which include </strong></p><p><strong>the creation of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). </strong></p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/05/2019 16:07:52 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett