For an organisation that thinks in the eternal, any time saving is transitory.<\/p>
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The Government\u2019s consultation on implementing the 2014 EU Procurement Directives took place between 19 September and 17 October 2014. We expect to publish our response early in the new year.<\/p>
Progress on the transposition of the directives can be followed on GOV.UK at:<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/transposing-eu-procurement-directives<\/a><\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to publish the responses to the consultation on the transportation of 2014 EU Procurement Directives and training materials for procurement professionals; when he plans to give a date to publish the Government's response to that consultation; and if he will make a statement.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/170120", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Cabinet Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/170120/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) are leading on providing superfast broadband to at least 95% of premises in the UK by 2017 and providing universal access to standard broadband, through Broadband UK.<\/p> The Government Digital Service, in Cabinet Office, is currently conducting further research on those lacking digital skills. This research will provide departments with a better understanding of the support requirements of Digitally Excluded and Assisted Digital users in the UK.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the (a) gender, (b) demographic, (c) age and (d) regional profile of people who do not (i) have access to broadband and (ii) have the skills to be comfortable online.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169736", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Cabinet Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169736/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The D5 London 2014: Leading Digital Governments Conference met at Idea London and Digital Catapult to discuss how to promote economic growth through open markets, teaching children to code, improving connectivity, and ideas for future collaborative projects. A trade event was hosted at Buckingham Palace by HRH the Duke of York which included the following leading British SMEs:<\/p> · Code Kingdoms<\/p> · Crowd Emotion<\/p> · Funding Circle<\/p> · Hypercat<\/p> · Kano<\/p> · Relative Insight<\/p> · Skyscape Cloud Services<\/p> · Therapy Box<\/p> · Yoyo<\/p> Founding members met criteria including on their expertise in teaching children coding, commitment to support all citizens to access digital services, and commitment to open standards, open markets and open source. Each member must also be a member of the Open Government Partnership. <\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the budget was for the D5 London 2014: leading digital governments conference; and how the invitees to this conference were identified.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the (a) least and (b) most visited Government website was in each of the last three years; and how many times each such website was visited.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169369", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Cabinet Office"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169369/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " Before 2010 Whitehall didn't know how much business departments did with strategic suppliers. The Government has developed a new approach to how it engages with its strategic suppliers, including establishing a network of Crown Representatives to manage these relationships. The Crown Commercial Service collects performance reports in relation to contracts held by strategic suppliers, as set out in the Strategic Supplier Risk Management (SSRM) policy.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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, {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169471", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Energy and Climate Change"}
], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/169471/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Smart Metering technical and security architecture is based on a suite of agreed, open standards, reflecting the Government\u2019s strategy to facilitate the development of third party innovative solutions for consumer devices. Consumer consumption data is stored securely on the meter, rather than in any central database. Consumers can give consent to authorised third parties to access this data via the Data and Communications Company, or they can securely connect devices through their Home Area Network to access the data locally.<\/p>"}
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In addition representatives from the United States and Mexico attended.
Details of costs will be published in due course.<\/p>