Written questions

4,009 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Communities and Local Government

Grenfell Tower: Fires

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many working hours have been spent by civil servants in his Department in response to the Grenfell Tower fire; and what proportion of his Department's civil servants total working hou

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Civil Society

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment the Government has made of the level of threat posed by cyber attacks to charities or third sector bodies contracted to do work for local authorities or providing a public service in conju

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Treasury: Public Expenditure

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times retrospective permission for spending has been (a) requested and (b) granted by his Department in each year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he intends to publish updates to the Treasury Green Book.

4 Sep 2017 · HM Treasury

Government Departments: Procurement

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what methods his Department has adopted to monitor and encourage compliance with the best practice set out in his Department's Green Book.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Committee on Standards in Public Life

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what was discussed at the meeting between Serco and the Committee for Standards in Public Life in their meeting on 2 March 2017; and what work of that committee has arisen from that meeting.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Committee on Standards in Public Life

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what was discussed at the meeting between G4S and the Committee for Standards in Public Life in their meeting on 15 March 2017; and what work of that committee has arisen from that meeting.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Committee on Standards in Public Life

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what was discussed at the meeting between Capital and the Committee for Standards in Public Life in their meeting on 11 April 2017; and what work of that committee has arisen from that meeting.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the Government is making on increasing the scale and development of its own capabilities to disrupt the most serious cyber threats as set out in paragraph 5.1.3 of the Government's National Cyber S

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Electronic Government: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress is being made on the Government's aim to provide automated protections for Government online services to the citizen as set out in paragraph 5.1.3 of the Government's National Cyber Security Strate

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Electronic Government: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the Government's definition is of the acceptable risk parameters for the cyber security of all Government services referred to in paragraph 5.2.7 of the Government's National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Electronic Government: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the target figure is for the objective relating to the number of online products and services coming into use being secure by default by 2021 as set out in objective 5.2.3 of the Government's National Cybe

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the Government is making on (a) providing the advice that the economy needs to protect itself and (b) improving how that advice is given in order to maximise its effect as set out in paragraph 5.5.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what progress has been made on the establishment of a skills advisory group to close the cyber skills gap in the UK workforce as set out in paragraph 7.1.8 of the Government's National C

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity: Information Sharing

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress the Government is making on moving towards automated information sharing so that cyber security systems automatically alert each other to incidents or attacks, as set out in paragraph 5.6.8 of the

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress is being made on the Government's aim to increase the scale and development of GCHQ, Ministry of Defence and National Crime Agency capabilities to disrupt the most serious cyber threats to the UK a

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity: Finance

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much the Government has invested in the UK's cyber security in the last six months; and on what projects the £1.9 billion of funding outlined in the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 has been spent.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress is being made on the development of the detailed Cyber Science and Technology strategy referred to in paragraph 7.3.5 of the Government's 2016 National Cyber Security Strategy.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, by what means the Government ensures the cyber security of its departments, agencies or other public bodies that use websites other than those on gov.uk.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Crown Representatives

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Crown Representatives listed in the Government's List of Crown Representatives and Strategic Suppliers of July 2017 have any other professional duties.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the value of contracts awarded to Government strategic suppliers was that are listed in the document entitled Crown Representatives and Strategic Suppliers of July 2017.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many reports to the Government Mystery Shopper service have related to non-payment in each year since that service was established.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of freedom of information requests sent to the Government Mystery Shopper service has been withheld on the grounds that the information requested is commercially sensitive in each year since that

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Government next plans to update its list of strategic suppliers.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of appointments in the Civil Service were made (a) internally and (b) externally in each year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, (a) what proportion of and (b) how many appointments to the senior Civil Service were made (i) internally and (ii) externally in each year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Location

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil servants will move department due to the machinery of government changes announced on 20 July 2017, broken down by department.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybercrime: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many young people have completed the Government's CyberFirst programme.

4 Sep 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many organisations have completed the Government's Cyber-Essentials Scheme in each year since it was created.

4 Sep 2017 · Ministry of Defence

Defence: Innovation

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much of the £165 million Defence and Cyber Innovation Fund has been allocated to support innovative procurement in defence and security; and to what use that money has been put.

Source: official written-questions record.