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768903

registered interest
date	11/10/2017
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	Tech City UK and Tech North: Staff
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 6 September 2017 to Question 9257, whether her Department collects information on the gender balance among STEM subject staff at Tech City and Tech North.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	107171
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>No, the Department does not collect information on the gender balance among STEM subject staff at Tech City and Tech North.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 16/10/2017 13:09:17 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

760834

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to improve public and private sector organisations' protection against distributed denial of service attacks.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides and regularly updates guidance for a wide range of public and private sector organisations, including in the critical national infrastructure. The guidance encourages organisations to understand and design their systems to be resilient to a range of common attacks, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.</p><p><br>The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is considering the need for the right incentives to be in place to build security into internet-connected products and services. This will help protect devices from being hijacked or misused as part of a DDoS attack. The NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme is a mechanism through which it is working with the Internet Service Provider community in order to make DDoS attacks harder systemically.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/10/2017 14:26:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

760835

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons the mitigation of distributed denial of service attacks is not included in the Government's cyber essentials scheme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Cyber Essentials scheme is intended to provide a minimum level of good, basic cyber security for any organisation, of any size, in any sector. It sets out the measures which any organisation can implement itself to protect against the most common Internet threats. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are difficult to protect against in the same way. Including DDoS mitigation within Cyber Essentials would significantly raise the bar assessed by the scheme, adding significant cost to organisations, even if they were unlikely to ever be the subject of such an attack.</p><p> </p><p>Organisations requiring protection from DDoS can consult guidance provided by the National Cyber Security Centre. They can also seek help from third parties offering these services (e.g. Internet Service Providers.)</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/10/2017 14:21:37 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

760836

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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	Cybersecurity: Infrastructure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps the Government is taking to protect critical national infrastructure from distributed denial of service attacks.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	105255
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The National Cyber Security Centre provides and regularly updates guidance for a range of public and private sector organisations, including in the critical national infrastructure (CNI). The guidance encourages organisations to understand and design their systems to be resilient to a range of common attacks, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme is a mechanism through which it is working with the Internet Service Provider community in order to make DDoS attacks harder systemically.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is working closely with CNI operators to ensure they are adequately protected from cyber threats, including DDoS attacks. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is currently consulting on the proposed implementation of the EU Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive. This Directive will place a legal obligation on operators of essential services to ensure they have appropriate security measures in place to deal with cyber threats. DCMS is also considering the need for the right incentives to be in place to build security into internet-connected products and services. This will help protect devices from being hijacked or misused as part of a DDoS attack.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 11/10/2017 14:24:34 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759647

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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	Data Protection: Next of Kin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what rights next of kin have to access data that belonged to deceased relatives.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10170
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The process on granting a next of kin access to any data on the deceased, held by public authorities is outlined in the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 09/10/2017 15:36:01 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759649

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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	Vulnerable Adults: Data Protection
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what rights relatives have to access data that belongs to vulnerable adults.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10163
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Individuals' rights in regards to the processing of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act (DPA) which is regulated by the Information Commissioner. The DPA recognises that in certain circumstances a third person may need to act on behalf of a friend or relative, in such circumstances the DPA will not prevent someone from accessing and updating information about another person, as long as they have permission to do so.</p><p>The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published advice on its website on the rights of individuals who are acting on behalf of a vulnerable person or relative.</p><p>This information can be found at:</p><p>https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2015/02/11/how-data-protection-helps-supporting-someone-with-dementia/</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 09/10/2017 09:58:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759650

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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	Telecommunications: Misrepresentation
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 11 September 2017 to Question 8813, on telecommunications: misrepresentation, whether informed consent applies for the duration of the contract; and how informed consent applies to people who may become classified as vulnerable during the contract period.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	10116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>Ofcom currently has rules in place which ensure that where communication providers make modifications to contractual terms which are likely to be of material detriment to a subscriber, they notify the subscriber of the modification and their ability to terminate the contract without penalty if the proposed modification is not acceptable.</p><p>In terms of identifying whether a customer is vulnerable, the communications provider would need to be made aware of the change in the consumer's circumstances either by the customer or a third party if they were authorised to act on their behalf.</p><p>Ofcom has now proposed, as part of its review of General Conditions of Entitlement, that all communications providers must comply with the introduction of a new condition on vulnerability which would require communication providers to take reasonable steps to identify vulnerable customers.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 09/10/2017 10:19:04 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759224

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Science
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that proactive and independent scientific advice informs its activities.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	9915
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>Policy is based on accurate and objective facts.</p><p>We ensure scientific advice is available for example by engaging working groups with relevant industry and academic experts; commissioning research and making use of the departments own independent Science Advisory Council.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/09/2017 15:23:52 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759227

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Cosmetics: Video Recordings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of videos demonstrating skin bleaching on young people; and if she will conduct an assessment of the potential merits of regulating such videos.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	9919
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/09/2017 answer text <p>We have made no assessment of the potential effect of videos demonstrating skin bleaching on young people, and currently have no plans to do so.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 19/09/2017 14:22:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

759245

registered interest
date	11/09/2017
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	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Chief Scientific Advisers
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 her Department will appoint a chief scientific advisor.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	9856
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2017 answer text <p>The department does not currently employ a Chief Scientific Adviser, though this position is regularly reviewed.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matt Hancock question first answered 14/09/2017 16:34:35 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah