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714060

registered interest
date	27/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he plans to take to support UK digital technology companies to access public sector procurement contracts.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	69277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The Government Transformation Strategy and the UK Digital Strategy set out how this Government will lead a step-change in procurement, making it easier than ever for digital technology companies of all sizes to access public sector procurement contacts through the Digital Marketplace.</p><p>As part of this, we will be heavily promoting the use of the Digital Marketplace by local and wider public sector bodies to lower barriers for all digital and technology suppliers. The Government’s aim is that the public sector should spend at least £750 million a year with SMEs by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 05/04/2017 08:19:06 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

712362

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	George Osborne
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether future meetings between Ministers and the right hon. Member for Tatton will be required to be published in the Departments' transparency data concerning meetings with proprietors, editors and media executives after his appointment as editor of the London Evening Standard; and whether any such meetings will be exempt from declaration in such transparency data.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	68588
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>All meetings between Ministers and newspapers and other media proprietors, editors and senior executives held in an official, social and political capacity are (and will continue to be) published on a quarterly basis.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/03/2017 12:16:36 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 41970 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

712507

registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	George Osborne
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to prevent the right hon. Member for Tatton from accessing copies of Government, Cabinet or Cabinet Committee papers relating to the period when he was in the Government while he is the Editor of the London Evening Standard.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	68598
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>It is a longstanding convention that former Ministers are allowed reasonable access to the papers that were issued to them when in office. However, such access is at the Government's discretion and is conditional on potential authors undertaking to comply with the Radcliffe principles. The detail of the Radcliffe principles can be found in the Directory of Civil Service (volume 2), which is available on G<a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">ov.uk</a>. I believe that the continued application of these provisions will provide the suitable reassurance that the Hon. Member is seeking.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 24/03/2017 12:17:26 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 41971 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

710903

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Written Questions
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 14 March 2017 to Question 67375, on government responses to written questions, what his definition is of the last administration.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67896
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The premiership of the former Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 20/03/2017 12:09:06 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

710904

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Written Questions
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 14 March 2017 to Question 67375, on government responses to written questions, how long he expects that task of manual checking to take.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67899
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>As I indicated in my previous answer of 14 March (62917), we will provide a definitive answer to the Hon. Member as soon as possible.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 20/03/2017 12:13:02 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

710905

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much his Department has spent on record management systems in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>This information could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 20/03/2017 12:15:39 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

710906

registered interest
date	14/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of his Department's records management system.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67901
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/03/2017 answer text <p>The Department’s records are maintained in accordance with the Public Records Act 1958. The Department is also implementing the recommendations of Sir Alex Allan’s Review of Government Digital Records and the Better Information for Better Government report, available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-digital-records-and-archives-review-by-sir-alex-allan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-digital-records-and-archives-review-by-sir-alex-allan</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-information-for-better-government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-information-for-better-government</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 20/03/2017 12:14:30 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

709622

registered interest
date	09/03/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to answer Question 62917 tabled on 2 February 2017 by the hon. Member for West Bromwich East.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	67375
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2017 answer text <p>We are currently in the process of manually checking records from the last Administration and will provide a definitive answer to the Hon. Member as soon as possible.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 14/03/2017 11:10:47 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

683439

registered interest
date	02/02/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Viscount Rothermere
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Prime Minister's predecessor met Lord Rothermere in February or March 2016.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	62917
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/03/2017 answer text <p>I understand David Cameron met Lord Rothermere socially on the evening of 11 February. The records on Gov.uk now reflect this.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 30/03/2017 12:12:37 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer previous answer version 34934 answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

584014

registered interest
date	15/09/2016
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many officials of his Department have responsibilities for cyber security.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	46600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2016 answer text <p>Transparency data on Cabinet Office staffing can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-staff-and-salary-data-as-at-31-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-staff-and-salary-data-as-at-31-march-2016</a></p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 10/10/2016 09:19:56 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest