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1716058

registered interest
date	07/05/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the guidance by the Central Digital and Data Office entitled Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published on 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by her Department; and how many red-rated IT systems have been identified since 4 December 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	25017
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, has established a programme to support departments managing legacy IT. CDDO has agreed a framework to identify ‘red-rated’ systems, indicating high levels of risk surrounding certain assets within the IT estate. Departments have committed to have remediation plans in place for these systems by next year (2025).</p><p> </p><p>It is not appropriate to release sensitive information held about specific red-rated systems or more detailed plans for remediation within the Department for Education’s IT estate, as this information could indicate which systems are at risk, and may highlight potential security vulnerabilities.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 14/05/2024 14:34:22 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1701322

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the policy paper entitled Transforming for a digital future: 2022 to 2025 roadmap for digital and data, updated on 29 February 2024, what steps (a) her Department and (b) the Student Loans Company have taken to mitigate the risks of red-rated legacy IT systems.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	22006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/04/2024 answer text <p>The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO), in the Cabinet Office, has established a programme to support departments managing legacy IT. CDDO has agreed a framework to identify ‘red-rated’ systems, indicating high levels of risk surrounding certain assets within the IT estate. Departments have committed to have remediation plans in place for these systems by next year (2025).</p><p>It is not appropriate to release sensitive information held about specific red-rated systems or more detailed plans for remediation within the department’s IT estate, as this information could indicate which systems are at risk, and may highlight potential security vulnerabilities.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 22/04/2024 16:21:54 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1671830

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what is the annual cost to the public purse of her Department's expenditure on (a) IT infrastructure, (b) IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 and (c) legacy IT infrastructure for each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	3000
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The annual cost of the department’s expenditure on IT infrastructure is approximately £200,000, excluding VAT. The department’s current annual expenditure on IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 is £0. From 2010, the department’s infrastructure and platforms have not retained historic records on legacy IT infrastructure for each year.</p><p> </p><p>As of 21 November 2023, the department, as a Ministerial department, has one red-rated legacy IT systems as defined in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework. The department is actively managing its legacy IT estate and is seeking to exit legacy systems via its existing change plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 3001 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:39:28 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1671831

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Central Digital & Data Office's guidance entitled, Guidance on the Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework, published 29 September 2023, how many red-rated IT systems are used by her Department as of 21 November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	3001
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The annual cost of the department’s expenditure on IT infrastructure is approximately £200,000, excluding VAT. The department’s current annual expenditure on IT infrastructure purchased prior to 2013 is £0. From 2010, the department’s infrastructure and platforms have not retained historic records on legacy IT infrastructure for each year.</p><p> </p><p>As of 21 November 2023, the department, as a Ministerial department, has one red-rated legacy IT systems as defined in the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) Legacy IT Risk Assessment Framework. The department is actively managing its legacy IT estate and is seeking to exit legacy systems via its existing change plans.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 3000 question first answered 29/11/2023 16:39:28 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

885267

registered interest
date	17/04/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many IT systems which his Department uses are more than (a) three, (b) five and (c) eight years old; and what steps he is taking to ensure that all his Department's IT systems are updated promptly.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	136132
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The Department has interpreted ‘IT Systems’ as the infrastructure technology supporting business systems, not the development of system functionality.</p><p> </p><p>Departmental records show that there are 275 business IT systems. The server infrastructure supporting these systems comprises no servers that are more than three years old, 1,428 servers that are more than five years old, and 451 servers that are more than eight years old.</p><p> </p><p>To ensure that IT systems are updated promptly, the Deparment runs essential preventative maintenance procedures and regular patching to keep IT systems up to date, stable and safe in operation. A significant transformation programme is under way to upgrade the oldest IT systems to later versions.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 23/04/2018 16:26:26 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

807206

registered interest
date	15/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to implement the guidance set out by the Government Commercial Function in its paper entitled Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, published in November 2017, in respect of (a) using market engagement, (b) setting up disaggregation work, (c) risk assessment, (d) developing a programme plan through the transition, (e) identifying the skills and capabilities that will be needed in the future and (f) any other work related to that guidance.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	119852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>IT services are primarily delivered by our internal digital, data and technology division (DDAT), and the Department for Education (DfE) has not entered into any large outsourcing contracts with a single vendor arrangement that has spend of over £20 million per year. The DfE has used a multi-vendor approach combined with our in-house delivered IT services; as well as using a cloud-first principle for new procurements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 22/12/2017 14:20:19 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

800744

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether electronic communications from hon. Members to Ministers of her Department are passed through any third parties before they reach their recipient.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	117365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>As part of the Government Secure Intranet (GSI) network, emails sent to the Department for Education (DfE) from outside of the department are processed via a third party email filtering system, which provides antiviral and antispam capabilities. DfE can only comment on the mail flow process once it has entered the GSI network and can only comment on emails received by ministers via their departmental email address.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/12/2017 16:55:04 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

782113

registered interest
date	01/11/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds a central list of the IT and digital assets of its arm's-length bodies.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	110724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2017 answer text <p>We understand the term arm’s-length body (ALB) to include non-departmental public bodies, executive agencies and non-ministerial departments. We understand IT assets to mean physical assets such as laptops and mobile phones and digital assets to mean non-physical, digitally held information assets owned by the ALBs.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education (DfE) holds a central list of the IT assets of our executive agencies – Education and Skills Funding Agency, National College for Teaching and Leadership, Standards and Testing Agency – and some of our other ALBs – Institute for Apprenticeships, Office of the Children’s Commissioner, Government Equalities Office, Office of the Schools Adjudicator and the Social Mobility Commission. This list only contains assets supplied to the ALB by the DfE; there may be additional assets held by the ALB that the DfE does not hold information on.</p><p> </p><p>The DfE does not hold a central list of the IT assets of any other ALBs. This is because the DfE does not supply assets to these bodies and does not manage assets on their behalf.</p><p>The DfE’s Information Asset Register, which includes information on digital assets, includes assets of our executive agencies only.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 09/11/2017 14:53:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

747691

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.
tabling member constituency	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
tabling member printed	Martyn Day
uin	2593
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/07/2017 answer text <p>The government continues to encourage more people to go online, so they can access the guidance and services they need – as well as reducing the cost of public services. The department has continued to reduce its paper consumption. This has been achieved through better print facilities and a continuing programme of IT improvements, such as the Digital Apprenticeship Service, which are helping to decrease our reliance on paper</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 14/07/2017 10:51:19 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	4488 label Biography information for Martyn Day

706201

registered interest
date	28/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on (a) iPads and tablets and (b) paper in each of the last five years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	65981
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2017 answer text <p>The Departmental spend on iPads and tablets is available for each of the last five financial years and is as below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>£000</strong></p></td><td><p>Less than 2</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Departmental spend on paper is available for each of the last five financial years and is as below:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015-16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>£000</strong></p></td><td><p>78</p></td><td><p>128</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>101</p></td><td><p>64</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The information regarding the amount of money spent by the Department on paper for each of the last five years is published by the Department and is available online.</p><p>The DfE Consolidated Annual Report and Accounts for 2014-15 is online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517766/DfE-consolidated-annual-report-and-a-counts-2014-to-2015-Web-version.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/517766/DfE-consolidated-annual-report-and-a-counts-2014-to-2015-Web-version.pdf</a>.</p><p>Page 89 of this report shows the spend on paper in financial years 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15.</p><p>This report should be read in conjunction with the DfE Consolidated Annual Report and Accounts for 2015-16 which is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016</a>.</p><p>Page 165 of this report shows the figures for financial year 2015-16.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/03/2017 09:48:21 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders