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1091345

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2019
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if his Department will review the reported leaking of information from Cabinet meetings to determine whether the ministerial code has been breached.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	234253
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>The principle of collective agreement requires that ministers are able to express their views freely and frankly in private, and therefore any leaks from Cabinet or Cabinet Committees are taken very seriously, as are leaks of any Government information or material. If any breach is found it is dealt with under the Ministerial Code, Special Adviser Code, or Civil Service Code. It has been the policy of successive Governments not to comment on leaks other than in exceptional circumstances when it is in the public interest to do so.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 25/03/2019 15:15:46 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1677243

	registered interest
	date	12/12/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Correspondence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Prime Minister plans to respond to the letter of 27 November 2023 from the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk and Lord Scriven on Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	6503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2023 answer text <p>As stated in the answer of 7 December 2023, Official Report, House of Lords, PQ HL571, this is a matter for the Conservative Party, rather than the Government.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 20/12/2023 17:53:20 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1680788

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that AI generated misinformation and disinformation does not impact elections in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	8779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government works continuously to understand, assess and address the risks presented by emerging and critical technologies. To date, the Cabinet Office has drawn on a significant range of analysis to inform Government understanding of the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence and the UK elections; we continue to coordinate with other Lead Government Departments.</p><p> </p><p>We keep our assessments of these issues under constant review. For example, in the lead up to the AI Safety Summit, a suite of products was published by the Government to help inform the public and Summit participants of our assessment of the risks and opportunities associated with the use of AI. The risk to the information environment was included within this: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the security of elections is considered a priority task across HMG and touches on work being undertaken by the Defending Democracy Task Force, DSIT and within the National Security Secretariat in Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 8780 8781 8782 question first answered 17/01/2024 17:31:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1680789

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of AI generated misinformation and disinformation on elections in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	8780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government works continuously to understand, assess and address the risks presented by emerging and critical technologies. To date, the Cabinet Office has drawn on a significant range of analysis to inform Government understanding of the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence and the UK elections; we continue to coordinate with other Lead Government Departments.</p><p> </p><p>We keep our assessments of these issues under constant review. For example, in the lead up to the AI Safety Summit, a suite of products was published by the Government to help inform the public and Summit participants of our assessment of the risks and opportunities associated with the use of AI. The risk to the information environment was included within this: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the security of elections is considered a priority task across HMG and touches on work being undertaken by the Defending Democracy Task Force, DSIT and within the National Security Secretariat in Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 8779 8781 8782 question first answered 17/01/2024 17:31:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1680791

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of AI generated deepfakes on elections in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	8781
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government works continuously to understand, assess and address the risks presented by emerging and critical technologies. To date, the Cabinet Office has drawn on a significant range of analysis to inform Government understanding of the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence and the UK elections; we continue to coordinate with other Lead Government Departments.</p><p> </p><p>We keep our assessments of these issues under constant review. For example, in the lead up to the AI Safety Summit, a suite of products was published by the Government to help inform the public and Summit participants of our assessment of the risks and opportunities associated with the use of AI. The risk to the information environment was included within this: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the security of elections is considered a priority task across HMG and touches on work being undertaken by the Defending Democracy Task Force, DSIT and within the National Security Secretariat in Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 8779 8780 8782 question first answered 17/01/2024 17:31:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1680792

	registered interest
	date	09/01/2024
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Elections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that AI generated deepfakes do not impact elections in the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	8782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government works continuously to understand, assess and address the risks presented by emerging and critical technologies. To date, the Cabinet Office has drawn on a significant range of analysis to inform Government understanding of the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence and the UK elections; we continue to coordinate with other Lead Government Departments.</p><p> </p><p>We keep our assessments of these issues under constant review. For example, in the lead up to the AI Safety Summit, a suite of products was published by the Government to help inform the public and Summit participants of our assessment of the risks and opportunities associated with the use of AI. The risk to the information environment was included within this: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-capabilities-and-risks-discussion-paper</a>.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, the security of elections is considered a priority task across HMG and touches on work being undertaken by the Defending Democracy Task Force, DSIT and within the National Security Secretariat in Cabinet Office.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 8779 8780 8781 question first answered 17/01/2024 17:31:23 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1660257

	registered interest
	date	12/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Procurement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ensure that all Government contracts include a requirement to pay staff (a) the Living Wage Foundation’s real Living Wage and (b) occupational sick pay.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	199194
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/09/2023 answer text <p>This government is committed to paying properly, which is being addressed through the statutory National Living Wage. This is based on the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission. In April 2023, the National Living Wage increased to £10.42 per hour, an increase of 9.7%. By 2024, the Government has committed that the National Living Wage will reach 66% of median UK earnings.</p><p>Departments are responsible for setting the terms and conditions of employment for their civil servants, in accordance with the rules of the Civil Service Management Code. This includes matters related to sickness absence.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 20/09/2023 10:47:24 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1434691

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Government Departments: Paper
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department is taking to reduce paper usage in Government departments in light of the climate emergency.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	128366
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>The Government is proud to lead the world in ending our own contribution to climate change and we have achieved a lot on our road to net zero already.</p><p>Under the new Greening Government Commitments Framework for the 2021-25 period, the government committed to reducing paper use by at least 50% against the 2017-18 financial year baseline. The first Annual Report against the new Framework, covering the 2021-22 financial year, is due to be published later this year.</p><p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) and Government Digital Service (GDS) in the Cabinet Office lead a ‘digital by default’ approach to government services. As a result, thousands of government services are now mostly used online and most service users are no longer using a paper-version of a service.</p><p>Last year, CDDO added a new mandatory standard to the existing Technology Code of Practice on ‘Make your technology sustainable’, which implements the published Greening Government ICT and Digital Services Strategy (2020).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Somerset answering member printed Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg question first answered 03/03/2022 17:46:21 answering member 4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1385744

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Coronavirus: Public Inquiries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the inquiry into the Government's handling of the covid-19 pandemic will include the Government's strategy to secure global access to vaccines and other pandemic health tools.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	88800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2021 answer text <p>On 12 May, the Prime Minister confirmed that a public inquiry into COVID-19 will be established on a statutory basis, with full formal powers and that it will begin its work in spring 2022. A chair will be appointed by the end of the year. More details about the inquiry, including its terms of reference, will be set out in due course.</p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis question first answered 16/12/2021 17:55:43 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

1436531

	registered interest
	date	28/02/2022
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study
	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 25 February 2022 to Question 125579 on Infected Blood Compensation Framework Study, if the Government will expedite any recommendation that is made on interim payments to mitigate further hardship to the victims.
	tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
	tabling member printed	Martyn Day
	uin	131246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/03/2022 answer text <p>I refer the hon Member to the answer I gave on 24 February to <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-02-18/125060" target="_blank">PQ 125060</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Northampton North answering member printed Michael Ellis grouped question UIN 131123 131143 question first answered 03/03/2022 18:02:20 answering member 4116 label Biography information for Sir Michael Ellis
	tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day