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964555

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date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 30 of the document entitled Government Transformation Strategy, published by his Department on 9 February 2017, what progress has been made in the digitisation of the 17 listed government services.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169864
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The 17 services listed in the Government Transformation Strategy in some cases comprise multiple components, which can be at different stages of development. Overall six services are substantially fully live (Live phase); nine further services are substantially available for public use and subject to further improvement (Beta phase); and a further two services are still in development (Alpha phase). Details about the phases of an agile project are published in the GOV.UK Service Manual: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery</a> .</p><p> </p><p>A list of transformed digital services that have successfully met the Digital Service Standard is available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-standard-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/service-standard-reports</a>, with further statistical information on service assessments at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/digital-service-assessments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/performance/digital-service-assessments</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 15:00:06 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964557

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 35 of the document entitled Government Transformation Strategy, published by his Department on 9 February 2017, what progress has been made on the development of a cross-government evidence base to share inter-departmental approaches to transformation work.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The government has established a portfolio of key transformation projects which is a subset of the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and is supported by a cross-government transformation team. Research and insight on programmes in this transformation portfolio are shared across government through a Transformation Peer Group of senior civil servants and transformation practitioners.</p><p> </p><p>Analysis of the projects in the transformation portfolio is shared publicly through the Infrastructure and Project Authority’s (IPA) annual report on major projects, most recently published in July 2018.</p><p> </p><p>The GOV.UK Design System - was published in June this year and makes available an extensive suite of design patterns (generated by numerous departments) with which government can build well designed services.</p><p> </p><p>By the end of September 2018 more departmental approaches to transformation, tools that have been developed, and insight from the portfolio will be published on <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">. </a></p><p> </p><p>Government has also developed cross-departmental service communities. These communities are focussed on developing end-to-end services as users perceive them, and they provide a space to collaborate and share approaches for continual learning and improvement.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 14:32:04 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964558

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people have been recruited by the Government Digital Service in each of the last seven years.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below sets out the number of staff recruited by the Government Digital Service (GDS) in each of the last seven years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>2018*</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>68</p></td><td><p>73</p></td><td><p>114</p></td><td><p>84</p></td><td><p>266</p></td><td><p>192</p></td><td><p>182</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><ul><li>To 31 Aug 2018</li></ul><p> </p><p>Many areas of work undertaken by GDS require specialist skills that are not always readily available from within the Civil Service. In order to tackle changing priorities, there has been a significant requirement to recruit fixed term contract staff (83% of the total recruited in the years shown) for periods of up to two years and the recruitment numbers reflect the turnover in this category of the workforce.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 15:09:36 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964559

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Government Digital Service: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gender balance is among employees of the Government Digital Service.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169867
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government Digital Service is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p> </p><p>Information about the diversity of the Cabinet Office workforce (and other Civil Service Departments) including gender is published annually by the Office for National Statistics in their Civil Service Statistics bulletin. The latest bulletin (at 31<sup>st</sup> March 2018) can be downloaded at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/civilservicestatistics</a> .</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 15:16:02 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964631

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Government Digital Strategy, published in 2012, how many of the high-volume transactional services have been end-to-end redesigned.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169868
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The 2012 Government Digital Strategy set an ambition for government transactional services to be designed so that they are available digitally by default. The initial Transformation Programme led to digital transformation in 25 high volume transactional service areas.</p><p> </p><p>In 2014 the Government Digital Service introduced the Digital Service Standard, a set of 18 criteria to ensure public digital services are designed and built to meet user needs. This standard has been used in transforming further services.</p><p> </p><p>A list of transformed digital services that have successfully met that Digital Service Standard is available online at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-standard-reports" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/service-standard-reports</a>, with further statistical information on service assessments available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/performance/digital-service-assessments" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/performance/digital-service-assessments</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 14:58:11 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964633

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Procurement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of sales by volume completed through the Government G-Cloud framework were to small and medium-sized enterprises in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169869
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>The table below shows the proportion of sales by volume that went to SMEs through the G-Cloud brand of commercial arrangements the last five financial years:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Proportion of sales by volume going to SMEs going through G-Cloud</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 14</p></td><td><p>64.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 15</p></td><td><p>68.2%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 16</p></td><td><p>69.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 17</p></td><td><p>69.4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 18</p></td><td><p>67.8%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The full dataset can be viewed at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/735462/G-Cloud-spend-end-July2018.csv/preview</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 15:14:29 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964634

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Cybersecurity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps have been taken to secure the Government Gateway service from cyber attack.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The Government Gateway infrastructure has been deployed and developed in line with security principles and best practice. It has also been reviewed by Security Accredited Professionals. In addition, regular health checks and software upgrades are undertaken to maximise system security and reduce vulnerability to cyber-attack.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2018 10:21:19 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964635

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many current users there are of Gov.UK Verify; and whether it is still the Government's target to reach 25 million users by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169871
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>As of 2 September 2018, there are 2,747,048 GOV.UK Verify user accounts. The number of GOV.UK Verify user accounts is published on the GOV.UK website and is regularly updated.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to enable individuals to prove their identity online and to access government services securely and safely. We continue to work towards 25 million people having a GOV.UK Verify account by 2020.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 15:11:26 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964636

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many government services currently use Gov.UK verify.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>17 government services are connected to GOV.UK Verify. One of these services is connected to GOV.UK Verify but not currently available to the public. The full list of services accessible through GOV.UK Verify is published on the GOV.UK website and is regularly updated.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 10/09/2018 14:29:41 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

964640

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment the Government has made of the cost to benefit ratio of the Gov.UK Verify service.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	169873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office has recently conducted an assessment of the costs and benefits of GOV.UK Verify over the period 2016/17 - 2017/18; this assessment has yet to be audited and figures are not yet available.</p><p> </p><p>Previously audited figures indicate that GOV.UK Verify has cost £54.4m to develop and has</p><p>saved £111.44m.</p> answering member constituency Hertsmere answering member printed Oliver Dowden question first answered 13/09/2018 11:04:14 answering member 4441 label Biography information for Oliver Dowden
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt