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1189956

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date	24/04/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Contact Tracing: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish a list of covid-19 symptom tracker online apps that have been approved by his Department; and what guidance his Department has published on downloading Government approved apps.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	39534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service has an existing approach to assessing apps for their clinical efficacy, data security and cyber security using the Digital Assessment Questionnaire which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-apps-library/guidance-for-health-app-developers-commissioners-and-assessors/how-we-assess-health-apps-and-digital-tools#preview-the-questions" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/services/nhs-apps-library/guidance-for-health-app-developers-commissioners-and-assessors/how-we-assess-health-apps-and-digital-tools#preview-the-questions</a></p><p>Apps can also be assessed against the NHS Digital Health Technology Standard that was introduced in February 2020. This is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/NHS_Digital_Health_Technology_Standard_draft.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.nhsx.nhs.uk/media/documents/NHS_Digital_Health_Technology_Standard_draft.pdf</a></p><p>To date, three COVID-19 symptom tracker apps have been assessed using these approaches. More information is available about how we assess apps and other digital health technologies at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2020/how-we-are-assessing-covid-19-apps" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/blog/transformation-blog/2020/how-we-are-assessing-covid-19-apps</a></p><p>NHSX, together with jHub, are working with the providers of third party COVID-19 symptom tracking apps and will publish details of those that meet our standards on the NHSX website in due course.</p> answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries question first answered 30/04/2020 16:05:15 answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries previous answer version 17797 answering member constituency Mid Bedfordshire answering member printed Ms Nadine Dorries answering member 1481 label Biography information for Ms Nadine Dorries
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1190150

registered interest
date	24/04/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to provide financial assistance to employees who were working before 19 March 2020, but are exempt from the furlough scheme due to a real-time information submission after this date by their employer.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	39618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is open to any individual who was on an employer’s PAYE payroll on or before 19 March 2020 and for whom HMRC received an RTI submission notifying payment in respect of that employee on or before the 19 March 2020. Those not eligible for the scheme may be eligible for other support Government is providing, including a package of temporary welfare measures and up to three months’ mortgage payment holidays for those struggling with their mortgage payments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 29/04/2020 15:21:23 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1190164

registered interest
date	24/04/2020
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	National Security Council
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what dates the National Security Council has met since 24 July 2019; who chaired those meetings; and which Ministers were present.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	39626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>Details of the National Security Council's membership is publicly available on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>. It is a long established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not shared publicly.</p> answering member constituency Portsmouth North answering member printed Penny Mordaunt question first answered 04/05/2020 12:15:55 answering member 4017 label Biography information for Penny Mordaunt
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1190166

registered interest
date	24/04/2020
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Integrated Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy Review
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the status is of the Government’s Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, announced in February 2020 and led by Alex Ellis; and what the timetable is for its publication.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	39627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>Following the Chancellor's announcement that the Comprehensive Spending Review is being delayed, the Integrated Review has been paused given the pressing need to focus on COVID-19. We will return to the Integrated Review when appropriate to do so, ensuring that we engage with all relevant stakeholders, including civil society.</p> answering member constituency Braintree answering member printed James Cleverly question first answered 04/05/2020 14:14:35 answering member 4366 label Biography information for James Cleverly
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1189007

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department has taken to tackle covid-19- related cyber crime through false online fundraising and donation portals.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2020 answer text <p>However, the Home Office remains vigilant to the ongoing risks that COVID-19 poses in terms of being used as a ‘hook’ to commit cybercrime and fraud, including through false online fund raising and donations.</p><p>The Home Office is working closely with law enforcement, private sector partners, and the third sector, to both warn businesses and the public about COVID-19 related frauds and scams and provide advice and guidance that sets out how they can protect themselves.n parallel, the Home Office is also working closely with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, who have recently issued a safety alert to charities themselves to minimise the risk of them becoming a victim of such frauds and cyber-attacks.</p><p>The Home Office is also working with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to monitor fraudulent websites that are using COVID-19 related themes. In recent weeks this has led to the removal of more than 2,000 online scams related to coronavirus, including those that are fraudulently purporting to enable charitable donations.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 06/05/2020 17:23:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1189008

registered interest
date	21/04/2020
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Prisoners' Release
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people convicted of terrorism-related charges have been released before the end date of their sentence in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>In England and Wales since 2010, no terrorist offender has been released from management by HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) before the end of their sentence. As per Criminal Justice Act 2003, prisoners will serve half of their sentence in custody before being subject to strict probation supervision in the second half – which has happened in most cases. During this time terrorist offenders are subject to strict licence conditions, which can result in recall to custody if they are breached.</p><p> </p><p>Regarding those terrorist offenders who have moved from prison custody to management in the community, the table below provides the data available to the department, from 2013 – 2019. This data was not collected before 2013:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Number of TACT convicted prisoners released on conditional licence, from January 1st 2013 to December 31st 2019.*</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Conditional Releases</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>16</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>34</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>22</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act, which came into force on 26 February, now means that the early release of terrorist offenders serving relevant sentences, will now be subject to Parole Board decisions. The Act changes the release arrangements for terrorist offenders serving determinate sentences, moving the earliest point of release, subject to a Parole Board decision from half-way to two thirds of the custodial term.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>*Data sources and quality</strong></p><p>The above figures relate to TACT Convicted prisoners only, for this reason the numbers do not match the statistics published under the Home Office Statistical Bulletin. The figures in these tables have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.</p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 27/04/2020 16:48:47 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1188802

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Counter-terrorism: United Nations
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what roles (a) her Department and (b) the Government have in the review of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2020 answer text <p>Her Majesty’s Government (HMG) will be taking a leading role in negotiating the UN review of its Global Counter Terrorism Strategy.</p><p>The review is currently scheduled to take place in June and July 2020 but may be delayed due to COVID-19. When it does occur we will work through the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York to achieve international consensus on the UN’s approach to Counter Terrorism. The Home Office will work together with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to coordinate input to the review from across HMG, to ensure that all departmental interests are reflected in the UK’s position.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 14/05/2020 14:54:52 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1188807

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offences against Children: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources she has allocated to keeping children and young people safe from online sexual abuse and exploitation following the introduction of the Government’s instructions to stay at home during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2020 answer text <p>n 2019, the Government significantly increased resources to the National Crime Agency leading to a near doubling of the CEOP Command’s online investigative capability. In September 2019, the Home Office announced an additional £30m funding for tackling child sexual abuse in 2020/21 to ensure offenders are no longer able to hide in the shadows preying on our society’s most vulnerable.</p><p>We are working with Law Enforcement, the UK Intelligence Community, safeguarding partners and the third sector to assess the threat and ensure they have the resources they need to tackle offending and provide the greatest protection for vulnerable children during COVID-19. The NCA and UK policing continue to relentlessly fight the online child sexual abuse threat; in the last seven weeks the NCA has developed and disseminated 2,600 online child sexual abuse (CSA) packages for police forces to investigate.</p><p>As part of this the Government has made £1.6 million available immediately for the NSPCC to expand and promote its national helpline for adults. Expanding the NSPCC Helpline will mean many more adults know how and where to raise concerns and seek advice or support about the safety and wellbeing of any children they are concerned about. The Home Office will further distribute £7.8 million in emergency support for charities helping vulnerable children who have been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.</p><p>We are further working across government and agencies to ensure that teachers, parents and carers have access to the support they need to help keep children safe online. As part of this the NCA has stepped up its messaging on staying safe online through their #OnlineSafetyAtHome campaign and their ThinkUKnow resources. The Department for Education has published interim safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges encouraging them to disseminate advice on online safety and we have published guidance for parents and carers on gov.uk. We have also worked with our Five Country partners to galvanise industry action; in response, key industry partners have developed a campaign targeting parents, carers and children with information and advice on staying safe online.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 18/05/2020 10:33:04 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1188810

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Internet: Safety
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish her Department’s list of identified online harms and the groups at risk from each of them.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>I take the problem of online harms very seriously and am clear that while companies have taken some positive steps, more needs to be done to tackle online harms.</p><p>The Government committed to introducing new online harms legislation in the Queen's speech on 19th December. The legislation will build on proposals in last year’s Online Harms White Paper and will establish a new duty of care on companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator.</p><p>The White Paper did provide an indicative list of harms. However, that list was neither exhaustive nor fixed. Online harms legislation will need to be sufficiently flexible, so that it is responsive to emerging forms of harmful content and behaviour as well as new technologies, while at the same time providing sufficient certainty to companies.</p><p>We are working with stakeholders to ensure that legislation and the process for defining harms in scope of legislation meets the dual needs of flexibility and certainty. Further information on this will be provided in the full government response to the White Paper consultation.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 29/04/2020 15:50:59 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

1188811

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
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	Internet: Safety
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 he will publish his Department’s list of identified online harms and the groups at risk from each of them.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	38013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government published the initial response to the Online Harms White Paper consultation on 12 February 2020. This confirmed that the Government is developing legislation on online harms to establish a new duty of care on online companies towards their users, overseen by an independent regulator. Companies will be expected to ensure higher levels of protection for children than for the typical adult user.</p><p> </p><p>The White Paper provided an indicative list of online harms that in-scope companies would be expected to address. That list was not exhaustive or fixed. Online harms legislation will need to be sufficiently flexible, so that it is responsive to emerging technologies and forms of harmful content and behaviour, while at the same time providing sufficient certainty to companies. The White Paper also excluded some types of harm from scope, including harm to companies and harm arising from a breach of data protection legislation or cyber-security. Further information on the duty of care and harm to be addressed will be provided in the Full Government Response to the White Paper consultation.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 27/04/2020 08:58:51 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn