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793231

	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress has been made on the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	901979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2017 answer text <p>Following a consultation, I announced on 3 November that this will be a statutory Inquiry under the 2005 Inquiries Act, sponsored by the Cabinet Office.</p><p>The Cabinet Office is now analysing over 800 consultation responses, and I will make a further statement before Christmas on the setting up of the Inquiry.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green question first answered 22/11/2017 14:48:11 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

794444

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will require investigation into allegations of cover-up as part of the inquiry into contaminated blood.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	115417
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to my Written Ministerial Statement of 3 November, in which I commit to making a further statement on the setting up of the inquiry before the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green grouped question UIN 115422 question first answered 28/11/2017 09:21:22 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

794449

	registered interest
	date	23/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Blood: Contamination
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the inquiry into blood contamination will include a panel of experts to assist the Chair of that inquiry.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	115422
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable Member to my Written Ministerial Statement of 3 November, in which I commit to making a further statement on the setting up of the inquiry before the end of this year.</p> answering member constituency Ashford answering member printed Damian Green grouped question UIN 115417 question first answered 28/11/2017 09:21:22 answering member 76 label Biography information for Damian Green
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1132120

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2019
	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 13 June 2019 to Question 261279 on Huawei: 5G, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of assessing 5G equipment for resilience and reliability prior to deployment.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	264461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2019 answer text <p>5G standards are still being ratified and the hardware and software that implements them is still being updated often during early commercial service. As a result, there are limited benefits in testing 5G equipment pre-deployment due to those changes and updates. The National Cyber Security Centre is focusing on those deployments and software releases in the UK which are most important.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 19/06/2019 09:20:55 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1005903

	registered interest
	date	12/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Cryptography
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 51 of the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021, what recent estimate he has made of the cost per annum to Government of procuring private sector cryptography skills and technologies.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	190571
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2018 answer text <p><em>Due to national security reasons we cannot comment on the cost of procuring cryptography skills and technology to Government.</em></p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 22/11/2018 10:40:07 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

992693

	registered interest
	date	22/10/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many cyber specialists there are working in each Government Department.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	182240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>I refer the honourable member to my answer on 23/10/2018 to PQ 181649.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 25/10/2018 09:09:42 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002733

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	National Cyber Security Centre: Labour Turnover
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the staff turnover rate at the National Cyber Security Centre has been in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	188908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/11/2018 answer text <p><strong> </strong>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) was established formally on 3 October 2016. At that time, the NCSC had a team of approximately 700 people. At the end of its second year, in October 2018, the NCSC had a team of approximately 850 people. For national security reasons we will not be providing further releases on staff numbers or turnover.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 13/11/2018 17:47:12 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1047776

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Infrastructure: Cybersecurity
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what powers the Government has to audit the cyber security of (a) UK critical national infrastructure operators and (b) their major suppliers.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	212453
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p><strong></strong></p><p>In 2018 the Government put in place new powers under the Network and Information Security (NIS) Regulations which require the most significant operators in the energy, transport, health, water, and digital infrastructure sectors to manage cybersecurity risk, including from the supply chain. The Competent Authorities who regulate the critical national infrastructure operators in scope of NIS may inspect and potentially impose fines of up to £17 million. Outside of NIS any powers are sector specific. Expert technical support from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is provided to regulators and operators to ensure that cyber security risk is managed and mitigated in a consistent way across the UK’s CNI.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 29/01/2019 16:47:54 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

1090980

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Civil Servants: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants have received cyber security training in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	233603
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2019 answer text <p>All Departments are required to provide security training as part of staff induction however the Cabinet Office does not maintain a central record of all training undertaken. Government departments are responsible for ensuring their staff receive adequate training to meet their needs.</p><p> </p><p>Through the work of the Government Security Profession we are developing a clear professional framework encompassing the breadth of the cyber security profession to ensure there are clear career pathways and that individuals are supported in developing their cyber security skills.</p><p> </p><p><strong>1) </strong>Departments <strong>shall</strong> establish which security messages new employees need to receive at induction, based on their role and the information/assets/sites they will have access to.</p><p><strong>2) </strong>Departments <strong>shall</strong> ensure all new employees are made aware of their security responsibilities as part of their induction.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 21/03/2019 10:30:30 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt