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755525

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Departments: Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many distributed denial of service cyber attacks on central Government Departments have occurred in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7314
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>One of the four principal objectives of the new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is to respond to cyber security incidents to reduce the harm they cause to the UK. Since its formation, the NCSC has managed approximately 60 serious incidents affecting government and industry each month. The total number of cyber incidents affecting central government departments, including DDoS attacks and ransomware infections, is not centrally recorded.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 7046 question first answered 12/09/2017 14:44:39 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755528

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Automation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse as a result of the robotic process automation campaign put out to tender by his Department; and what the evidential basis was for that estimate.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Services under the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Partnership contract began on 4 September 2017 and there is not currently enough analysis on which to base an estimate of potential savings or improvements to public services. The initial focus of the contract is to develop a Centre of Excellence that promotes RPA across government and helps Departments identify suitable opportunities for automation. The initial services are being provided at the supplier's cost and we will only pay for services where we agree terms for full development and deployment of RPA applications into Departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2017 15:22:17 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755529

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to data published by the Office for National Statistics in July 2017, how many of the 555 additional staff employed in digital, data and technology roles in the Civil Service since March 2016 were recruited (a) internally and (b) externally.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7226
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally and would incur disproportionate costs to determine.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2017 13:10:34 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755538

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
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 what changes have resulted in the outcomes of Civil Service recruitment since the introduction of name-blind and school-blind recruitment.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7037
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service is committed to becoming the most inclusive employer in the UK and as such works hard to understand the impact of recruitment on the diversity of its workforce.</p><p>Anonymised recruitment, less formally referred to as ‘name blind’ recruitment, is just one of these initiatives and is intended to assure candidates that people are assessed on the basis of the evidence that they present.</p><p>There is a significant focus on diversity and this policy is important as part of a wider suite of evidence based initiatives that when implemented together are more likely to have a positive impact on the diversity of the Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2017 14:05:48 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755539

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil service apprenticeships have been (a) awarded and (b) completed in each year since they were introduced.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7041
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Since the Civil Service Apprenticeship Strategy was introduced in 2015, the current number of Civil Service Apprenticeship starts is confirmed at 7,709 (last collected on 31st March 2017). The Civil Service does not yet have data on completed apprenticeships but began recording this information in April 2016.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Civil Service is on track to achieve its target of 30,000 apprenticeship starts by 2020 as laid out in the Apprenticeship Strategy.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 12/09/2017 13:19:29 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755540

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Secondment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Civil Service secondment and interchange strategy was last updated.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7038
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service Workforce Plan (2016) sets out the importance of movement in and out of the Civil Service, in order to exchange skills and expertise and enable the Civil Service to respond to changing priorities and deliver Government commitments. The Civil Service Talent Board oversees the approach to secondments and regularly reviews this. It last discussed it in May 2017, and considered how to build on the work of the High Potential Secondments Programme and how to ensure we are using secondments to meet capability needs, particularly in relation to the EU exit.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 10:12:28 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755541

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made on centralising the senior recruitment function in the Civil Service as set out in the Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7042
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>The Civil Service Executive Recruitment expert service was established in 2013 and<br>formally launched in 2014 to deliver a centralised recruitment function for senior roles<br>across the Civil Service. This approach ensures that departments are provided with expert<br>guidance on attracting and selecting a diverse range of quality candidates. The expert<br>service currently covers approximately 40% of all SCS recruitment and has facilitated the<br>recruitment of over 900 individuals since it was established.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/10/2017 10:14:38 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755542

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times executive search firms have been contracted for the purpose of recruitment into the Civil Service since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Departments are responsible for their own recruitment, with around 40% of Senior Civil Service vacancies through the centralised Executive Recruitment service. There is no central collection of recruitment information across government or the associated spend.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 7044 question first answered 12/09/2017 14:31:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755543

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent on executive search firms contracted for the purpose of recruitment into the Civil Service since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7044
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2017 answer text <p>Departments are responsible for their own recruitment, with around 40% of Senior Civil Service vacancies through the centralised Executive Recruitment service. There is no central collection of recruitment information across government or the associated spend.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes grouped question UIN 7043 question first answered 12/09/2017 14:31:05 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

755544

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Civil Servants: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil service roles were advertised externally for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	7045
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2017 answer text <p>Unfortunately, the department only holds information regarding advertised roles in the Civil Service from January 2011. The information below includes appointments advertised on Civil Service jobs, which includes adverts from 159 government departments and organisations, and appointments to the Civil Service Fast Stream and through the Fast Track apprenticeship scheme.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Departments are able to recruit through third party providers however, meaning that this response is not representational of all advertised roles for the Civil Service, only the ones that are advertised centrally. It is also worth noting that the Civil Service Fast Track Apprenticeship only started in 2013.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office will not be including information on appointments to the Senior Civil Service as this will be covered by a separate response to a different Parliamentary Question you have submitted.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The proportion of civil service roles that were advertised externally since January 2011 is as follows.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2011 – 25.9%</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2012 – 35.4%</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2013 – 30.6%</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2014 – 31.6%</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2015 – 46.4%</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2016 – 53.7% - not including Fast Stream figures as these are being prepared for future publication</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 13/09/2017 14:08:03 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett