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1692770

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much funding his Department (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2024 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office spent the following on advertising in the last three financial years:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>20/21</strong>: £376,029,723.21</p><p><strong>21/22:</strong> £168,730,321.96</p><p><strong>22/23:</strong> £27,485,611.31</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Detail on this and other spending is routinely published by the Cabinet Office on GOV.UK here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-spend-data" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-spend-data</a></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Advertising spend in 20/21 and 21/22 was considerably higher due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Cabinet Office played a leading role in providing the public with information about the Pandemic. Increased advertising was essential to doing this and keeping the country safe.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office budgets for advertising and other public relations activity is set in order to provide flexibility to the Cabinet Office to deal appropriately with what are often unforeseen events. This has been a long standing budgetary good practice under successive administrations.</p><p>The overall budget for Marketing and Media for the years in question are set out below:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>20/21:</strong> £558,297,000</p><p><strong>21/22:</strong> £242,177,000</p><p><strong>22/23:</strong> £39,501,000</p><p><strong><p><p></strong></p><p>Work on advertising is primarily carried out by communications staff employed by departments and like all areas of government spending, costs are reviewed regularly to ensure value for money.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 06/03/2024 18:41:50 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693251

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what reports and guidance his Department and has produced in the last three years; and how much was spent on their (a) printing and (b) distribution.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2024 answer text <p>The requested information is not centrally held, and complying with this request would incur a disproportionate cost to the department. Reports and guidance that the Department has published can be found on gov.uk. Examples include the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/cabinet-office-annual-reports-and-accounts</a>), Strengthening Ethics and Integrity in Central Government (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strengthening-ethics-and-integrity-in-central-government</a>) and policy papers such as the Disability Action Plan (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-action-plan" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/disability-action-plan</a>).</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 07/03/2024 19:36:41 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693523

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: WhatsApp
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance his Department issues on the use of WhatsApp.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>In common with all other departments in central government, and arms lengths bodies, Cabinet Office applies the published guidance: Using Non-Corporate Communication Channels (e.g. WhatsApp, private email, SMS, etc.) for Government Business, found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-corporate-communication-channels-for-government-business" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-corporate-communication-channels-for-government-business</a>. This guidance, which was published by Cabinet Office in March 2023, applies to all individuals in central government (ministers, special advisers, officials, contractors, non-executive board members and independent experts advising ministers).</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/03/2024 18:15:14 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693875

registered interest
date	05/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Fraud and Maladministration
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 amount of money lost to fraud and error by his Department in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17122
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government is proud of its record in proactively seeking to find and prevent more fraud in the system. As part of wider cross-government counter fraud investment, the government established the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA). In its first year, the PSFA delivered £311 million in audited counter fraud benefits.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The PSFA produces a Fraud Landscape Report (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-annual-report-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cross-government-fraud-landscape-annual-report-2022</a>). This provides data on fraud and error detection, loss and recoveries in central government, outside of the tax and welfare system and includes the Cabinet Office. The 2020/21 Report was published in March 2023. To note it outlines all figures rounded to the nearest £0.1m.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In 2022-23, as published in the department’s Annual Reports and Accounts, the Cabinet Office detected error of £3.48m, of which £3.43m was recovered in year and detected fraud of £60k of which none has been recovered to date. Efforts to recover the detected fraud are continuing at this time. The Cabinet Office does not hold specific data on fraud for previous years.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office does not recognise a loss arising from error or fraud until efforts to recover the funds have been explored. This means that write-offs of error and fraud usually occur in the years after the original problem arose.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Losses recognised and written off by the Cabinet Office for the last three years are:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>2022/23 - £4,800</p><p>2021/22 - £327,400</p><p>2020/21 - £703,300</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 11/03/2024 17:20:39 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1694472

registered interest
date	07/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many domestic overnight visits were undertaken by Ministers in his Department in each of the last three financial years; and what the cost of those visits was.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government publishes on GOV.UK details of the cost of overseas Ministerial travel, including costs of travel, and on other costs (visas, accommodation, meals).</p><p>But as has been the case under successive administrations, the Government does not publish granular detail on Ministers’ travel at home or abroad.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 12/03/2024 17:36:01 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1695061

registered interest
date	11/03/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: Domestic Visits
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, to which domestic destinations Ministers in his Department have attended overnight visits in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	17874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2024 answer text <p>I refer the Rt Hon. Member to my response to UIN 17515 on 12th March 2024.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 14/03/2024 16:59:33 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1701403

registered interest
date	16/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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 his Department has taken to mitigate the risks of red-rated legacy IT systems.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	21953
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 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><strong> </strong></p><p>It is not appropriate to release sensitive information held about specific red-rated systems, more detailed plans for remediation within departmental IT estates, or information that could indicate which systems are at risk as it may highlight potential security vulnerabilities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 19/04/2024 13:26:42 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1701832

registered interest
date	17/04/2024
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cabinet Office: ICT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, 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, when his Department first assessed each of the red-rated legacy IT systems in his Department to be red-rated.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	22283
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2024 answer text <p>Cabinet Office Digital first carried out an audit between September 2022 and Feb 2023, as part of the work to upgrade our IT estate.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>It has created a framework for managing legacy systems in the department and we are proactively working with the Central Digital &amp; Data Office (CDDO), reporting and feeding back updates on progress.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Cabinet Office aims to have remediation plans in place for these systems next year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart question first answered 24/04/2024 15:38:00 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1692802

registered interest
date	29/02/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Advertising
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department and has (a) budgeted for and (b) spent on advertising in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2024 answer text <p>The department provides details of the funding spent on advertising and publicity as part of its annual reports and accounts, which are published in the usual way on GOV.UK:</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2022-to-2023</a>.</li><li><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63a025c5e90e07587bd8ba57/DfE_consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2021_to_2022_accessible.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/63a025c5e90e07587bd8ba57/DfE_consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2021_to_2022_accessible.pdf</a>.</li></ul><p>The department uses marketing to support the delivery of strategic aims and government priorities, including to recruit teachers, reform the skills landscape, and drive take up of products and services like apprenticeships, T Levels and childcare entitlements. Since 2010, there are now 27,000 more teachers working in state-funded schools across the country, 5.4 million apprenticeship starts and the department is delivering the largest ever expansion of free childcare in England.</p><p><br> Spend includes different types of marketing activity, including advertising. Figures for the last three financial years are:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Financial Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Department Spend on Marketing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£20 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£26 million</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£40 million</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The department does not hold complete records of budget profiles for marketing and communications compared to final confirmed spending.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/03/2024 11:45:17 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden

1693253

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Publishing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what reports and guidance her Department has produced in the last three years; and how much was spent on their (a) printing and (b) distribution.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South East
tabling member printed	Pat McFadden
uin	16723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The information is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 11/03/2024 17:14:09 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1587 label Biography information for Pat McFadden