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date	20/12/2018
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 20 December 2018 to Question 202801, for what reason no reference was made in that Answer to the number of Government Departments which use (a) a system for identifying external emails to recipients and (b) a protocol for timely staff reporting of suspicious emails.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	204633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Cabinet Office does not hold this information centrally. It is the responsibility of each government department to manage how they receive external emails and report suspicious emails based on their security requirements. Domain-based Message Authentication Protocol (DMARC) is the system in which Departments identify external email.</p><p>The NCSC provides guidance and support to government departments on how to implement good cyber hygiene for staff, including the reporting of suspicious emails of which Cabinet Office have no central record of these figures.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 07/01/2019 17:25:19 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

1027225

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, whether the Government security profession unit has a target for the number of cyber-security professionals it plans to recruit.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	202802
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2018 answer text <p>Government departments are responsible for ensuring adequate staffing levels to meet the organisational risk it carries. Though no single target number for cyber security specialists exist, the Government Security Profession team will support departments through the delivery of centralised strategy for the recruitment and retention of cyber skills in departments.</p> answering member constituency Aylesbury answering member printed Mr David Lidington question first answered 20/12/2018 15:34:56 answering member 15 label Biography information for Sir David Lidington
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

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