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1000224

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) timetable, (b) cost and (c) estimated savings are for the Foxhound IT programme.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	187356
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>FOXHOUND is a Cabinet Office-led, cross-government IT programme to develop and deploy a new secure capability for managing sensitive information, including that which is classified up to and at SECRET. The aim is to bear down on the growing information and cyber risk, whilst improving scope for collaboration across the National Security community. The single platform this capability offers will enable some security related savings to be made and an outline Programme timetable and costs are published in Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) annual reports on Major Projects (<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721978/IPA_Annual_Report_2018__2_.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/721978/IPA_Annual_Report_2018__2_.pdf</a> and <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-and-projects-authority-annual-report-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/infrastructure-and-projects-authority-annual-report-2018</a>)</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/11/2018 09:57:43 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1000225

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Public Sector: ICT
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse has been of the Public Services Network; and what estimate he has made of the savings to be accrued to the public purse of that Network.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	187357
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Each government department or organisation connected to the PSN is responsible for procuring its own connectivity services separately from a group of approved providers. Since almost 700 public sector organisations across central government, local government and other public agencies and bodies use the PSN, it is not possible for Cabinet Office to report on the total cost to the public purse.</p><p>The National Audit Office 2016 “Protecting information across government” report reported that the project saved £406 million across government over the 4 years between 2011/12 and 2014/15.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 12/11/2018 09:49:38 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1000226

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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, if he will publish the successful bids to the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund for each region.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	187358
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Details of the seven initiatives supported through the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) pilot are published on the CSIIF gov.uk page. Initiatives are based in London, Leeds, Bristol, Worcester, Salford and Essex. A number of these initiatives have a national reach, including online platforms that can be accessed by individuals across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 170 individuals were either participating or had been identified to take part in the seven CSIIF pilot initiatives as of end of October 2018. Five of those initiatives have commenced in full and two continue to identify participants. The full level of participation and an assessment of employment outcomes of all seven pilot initiatives will be considered as part of an independent evaluation in 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 187359 question first answered 12/11/2018 16:06:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1000227

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 31 October 2018 to Question 184409 on Cybercrime, how many of the 170 individuals have been (a) participating and (b) identified to take part.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	187359
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Details of the seven initiatives supported through the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF) pilot are published on the CSIIF gov.uk page. Initiatives are based in London, Leeds, Bristol, Worcester, Salford and Essex. A number of these initiatives have a national reach, including online platforms that can be accessed by individuals across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Approximately 170 individuals were either participating or had been identified to take part in the seven CSIIF pilot initiatives as of end of October 2018. Five of those initiatives have commenced in full and two continue to identify participants. The full level of participation and an assessment of employment outcomes of all seven pilot initiatives will be considered as part of an independent evaluation in 2019.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James grouped question UIN 187358 question first answered 12/11/2018 16:06:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1000229

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	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, how many data breaches were reported by each Government department to the Government Security Group in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	187361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not require central reporting of data breaches by government departments.</p><p> </p><p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-minimum-cyber-security-standard" target="_blank">minimum cyber security standard</a> outlines the communications required by a department when there is a security incident that impacts on sensitive information or key operational services.</p><p> </p><p>The Government Security Group would be involved in the response to a category one or two</p><p>cyber security incident impacting a central government department(s), however to date an incident of this type has not occurred.</p><p> </p><p>The <a href="https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/annual-review-2018" target="_blank">National Cyber Security Centre’s Annual Report (2018)</a> provides the total number of incidents it has dealt with over the past year.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/11/2018 09:37:31 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002662

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2018
	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	Internet: Security
	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 18 October 2018 to Question 180309 on Internet: Security, what his Department's definition is of best possible industry uptake of the Code; and whether that definition includes a quantifiable target.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	188905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>The consumer Internet of Things (IoT) sector is an exciting area of technology which is expected to grow significantly in the coming years as new products come to market. The exact level of this growth remains highly uncertain, with predictions ranging from 6.4 billion to 75 billion devices on the global market by 2020. This level of uncertainty makes the setting of a target unhelpful as it may limit our ambition.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 12/11/2018 16:03:34 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1002723

	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	Government Departments: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government departments are using a protective domain name system.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	188906
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 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. Of the 45 ministerial and non-ministerial departments there are 25 using, or are in the process of adopting the NCSC service. GSG and NCSC are actively working with Departments to adopt the use of the PDNS service.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 12/11/2018 17:28:37 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

768971

	registered interest
	date	11/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS: Crimes of Violence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) arms-length bodies collect on the number of reported physical assaults on NHS staff.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	107280
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2017 answer text <p>The NHS Staff Survey is used by the Department, NHS England and arm’s-length bodies to collect information on the percentage of staff experiencing physical violence from patients, relatives or the public in the last 12 months, the percentage of staff experiencing physical violence from staff in the last 12 months and the percentage of staff/colleagues reporting their most recent experience of violence.</p><p> </p><p>Working with their security staff, the Police and Crown Prosecution Service, employers are responsible for reducing the likelihood of staff being attacked and taking appropriate action against those assaulting their staff. Trusts can use the NHS Staff Survey to benchmark progress against their peers and help them review their plans for tackling violence against their staff.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 (the latest NHS Staff Survey data available), 15% of staff reported they experienced physical violence from patients, relatives or members of the public in the last 12 months, a proportion which has remained static since 2012. In contrast, nearly all staff who participated in the survey reported that they have never experienced violence from a colleague (98%) or their manager (99%) in the last 12 months.</p><p> </p><p>From 2012 - 2016, the NHS Staff Survey has shown:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of staff experiencing physical violence from patients, relatives or the public in the last 12 months</p></td><td><p>14.9%</p></td><td><p>14.9%</p></td><td><p>14.6%</p></td><td><p>14.8%</p></td><td><p>14.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Percentage of staff experiencing physical violence from staff in the last 12 months</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>2.7%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td><td><p>2.0%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Of those experiencing physical violence, the percentage of them or their colleagues reporting the incident has remained broadly similar since 2012</p></td><td><p>73.8%</p></td><td><p>72.6%</p></td><td><p>72.3%</p></td><td><p>71.6%</p></td><td><p>72.0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/10/2017 11:44:53 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

773300

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Leigh
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department plans to allocate Northern and Midland High Speed 2 infrastructure funding to connect Leigh with High Speed 2.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	108482
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Leigh’s closest HS2 station, Wigan North Western, will be served by HS2 trains following completion of HS2 Phase One in 2026, and by 2033 will be served by HS2 trains from London, Birmingham, Preston and Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>The department has made no assessment of the costs of a direct rail line or rail journey times between Leigh and HS2.</p><p> </p><p>The government has provided Greater Manchester Combined Authority with £2.5m to develop HS2 Growth Strategies, which include plans for improving connectivity across Greater Manchester to the planned HS2 stations. Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester are advancing their wider plans for connectivity across the city region through their Greater Manchester 2040 Transport Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The government has committed £300m to future-proof HS2 to support Transport for the North’s ambition for Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) between the North’s largest cities. Transport for the North are currently developing the business case for NPR, which includes investigating serving other significant economic centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 108495 108496 108497 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:19:14 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

773308

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department for Transport
	answering dept id	27
	answering dept short name	Transport
	answering dept sort name	Transport
	hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Leigh
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment on the (a) feasibility and (b) cost of a direct rail line between Leigh and HS2.
	tabling member constituency	Leigh
	tabling member printed	Jo Platt
	uin	108495
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2017 answer text <p>Leigh’s closest HS2 station, Wigan North Western, will be served by HS2 trains following completion of HS2 Phase One in 2026, and by 2033 will be served by HS2 trains from London, Birmingham, Preston and Scotland.</p><p> </p><p>The department has made no assessment of the costs of a direct rail line or rail journey times between Leigh and HS2.</p><p> </p><p>The government has provided Greater Manchester Combined Authority with £2.5m to develop HS2 Growth Strategies, which include plans for improving connectivity across Greater Manchester to the planned HS2 stations. Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Transport for Greater Manchester are advancing their wider plans for connectivity across the city region through their Greater Manchester 2040 Transport Strategy.</p><p> </p><p>The government has committed £300m to future-proof HS2 to support Transport for the North’s ambition for Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) between the North’s largest cities. Transport for the North are currently developing the business case for NPR, which includes investigating serving other significant economic centres.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard grouped question UIN 108482 108496 108497 question first answered 25/10/2017 14:19:14 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
	tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt