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1150135

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Chief Data Officer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 8 October to Question 293725 on Government Chief Data Officer, until what date the objective of appointing a Chief Data Officer by 2020 applies.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	1134
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>No specific date has been set for the appointment, however the government remains committed to appointing within the timeframe set out in the Government Transformation Strategy.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 21/10/2019 13:50:57 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1150144

registered interest
date	16/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Software
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 5 September 2019 to Question 284390 on Public Sector: Computer Software, whether (a) his Department and (b) the GDS is monitoring the number and proportion of public sector computers transitioning from Windows 7 prior to the end of the support date.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	1139
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>Individual technology choices and volumes purchased rest with individual departments</p><p>The Cabinet Office will soon start work on an audit to allow for a more comprehensive and consistent approach to reviewing legacy IT in government and will support departments to understand their legacy systems and any risks associated with those systems.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 21/10/2019 14:26:23 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1148993

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Elections: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the application process for a local electoral identity document will be; and how identity will be verified.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	354
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government will bring forward measures to introduce voter ID when parliamentary time allows.</p><p>As was the case in the 2018 and 2019 voter ID pilots, electors who do not have any of the required types of ID will be able to apply for a locally issued electoral identity document, free of charge. We will continue building on this experience and working with the pilot authorities who have tested voter ID, the Electoral Commission, and the Cabinet Office pilot and reference group to develop a process for national implementation.</p> answering member constituency Torbay answering member printed Kevin Foster question first answered 17/10/2019 10:38:51 answering member 4451 label Biography information for Kevin Foster
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1148994

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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	Government Departments: Digital Technology
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 progress the Government has made in it's proposal to reduce the duplication of citizen data across Government as stated in the Government Transformation Strategy 2017-2020.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	355
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2019 answer text <p>The GDPR and Data Protection Act came into effect in 2018 and enshrines key principles of purpose limitation and data minimisation in the processing of personal data. Government is currently preparing a statutory code of practice for government departments and public sector organisations to provide guidance on compliance with GDPR.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, in May this year, the Government Digital Service updated their Digital Service Standards. These standards are publicly available and give users permission to copy, distribute and use technology freely or at a low cost avoiding the need for duplication across government. Furthermore we will publish a National Data Strategy, which will set out how government will improve its approach to the handling and use of data.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 22/10/2019 14:59:13 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1149002

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Correspondence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent correspondence he has received from each Gov.UK Verify provider on their continued participation in that scheme.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2019 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office, including ministers, is in regular contact with all GOV.UK Verify identity providers. For example, we held a roundtable in July 2019. Details of ministerial meetings are published as part of routine government transparency on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 21/10/2019 13:49:40 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1149062

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Public Sector: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the call for public sector application programming interfaces will include the interoperability of databases containing citizens' data.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	371
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>There is an increased desire for standards and guidance for application programming interfaces (APIs) due to their increasing popularity and the benefits they offer to departments and their users. <br> <br>APIs are being used more frequently within government because they assist the interoperability of databases in an affordable and user-friendly way. <br> <br>While APIs allow interoperability to enable data sharing, in government they are programmed to only share small subsections of data or “attributes”, thereby protecting identity and limiting the specific data available.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 17/10/2019 10:41:07 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1147989

registered interest
date	02/10/2019
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	Databases: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding her Department has allocated to the (a) creation and (b) implementation of the Government Data Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	293727
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Selby and Ainsty answering member printed Nigel Adams question first answered 08/10/2019 16:39:19 answering member 4057 label Biography information for Nigel Adams
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1147124

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Stronger Towns Fund and Towns Fund: Leigh
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 30 September 2019 to Question 291138, on Stronger Towns Fund: Leigh, if he will publish (a) the full methodology and (b) the score of each town within Leigh constituency.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	292333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/10/2019 answer text <p>As part of the process of identifying the initial 100 places, towns have been chosen on the basis of a robust selection methodology. This took into account various qualitative and quantitative indicators including income deprivation, skills, productivity, EU exit exposure, economic shocks, investment opportunities, and policy alignment.</p><p>As the development of Town Deal proposals is a live process it would not be appropriate for the Department to publish individual scores.</p> answering member constituency Rossendale and Darwen answering member printed Jake Berry question first answered 03/10/2019 10:12:38 answering member 4060 label Biography information for Sir Jake Berry
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1145964

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
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	Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's announcement entitled New boost to increase diversity in nation’s cyber security industry published on 14 August 2019, what target her Department has set on the number of people who will be assisted by the third round of funding from the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	291081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund encourages a sector-led approach to stimulating the cyber security retraining ecosystem in a sustainable way. It is designed to increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing a career in the cyber security profession. Launched in 2018, the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund announced its third funding round on 14 August 2019.</p><p> </p><p>We are currently running an open grant competition for proposed initiatives to apply for funding. We expect to support several new initiatives in this round of funding, working closely with employers to maximise the employment prospects of the individuals benefiting from the training programmes. Over 400 people have already benefited from training supported by previous funding rounds, and our objective is that greater numbers will benefit as the businesses we partner with further invest in this sector. The outcome of this programme will be reported in due course.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Boston and Skegness answering member printed Matt Warman question first answered 30/09/2019 14:49:41 answering member 4361 label Biography information for Matt Warman
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

1144300

registered interest
date	03/09/2019
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Chief Data Officer
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 2 September 2019 to Question 276285, if she will outline the responsibilities of the chief data officer role; and when she plans to appoint an individual to that position.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	286366
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government intends to appoint a Chief Data Officer in 2020 as set out in the Government Transformation Strategy. The role of the Chief Data Officer will be outlined in due course.</p> answering member constituency Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire answering member printed Simon Hart question first answered 09/09/2019 14:21:04 answering member 3944 label Biography information for Simon Hart
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt