Written questions

4,009 written questions tabled, most recent first.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

National Cyber Security Centre: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many staff members of the National Cyber-Security Centre were recruited (a) from within and (b) externally to the Civil Service.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Cybercrime

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many ransomware cyber attacks on central Government departments there have been by year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

National Cyber Security Centre: Staff

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many members of staff are employed in the National Cyber-Security Centre.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cybercrime: Training

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gender breakdown is of the young people who have completed the Government's CyberFirst programme.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of civil service roles were advertised externally for each year since 2010.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how much has been spent on executive search firms contracted for the purpose of recruitment into the Civil Service since 2015.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many times executive search firms have been contracted for the purpose of recruitment into the Civil Service since 2015.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Senior Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress has been made on centralising the senior recruitment function in the Civil Service as set out in the Civil Service Workforce Plan 2016.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Secondment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when the Civil Service secondment and interchange strategy was last updated.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Apprentices

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many civil service apprenticeships have been (a) awarded and (b) completed in each year since they were introduced.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment he has made of what changes have resulted in the outcomes of Civil Service recruitment since the introduction of name-blind and school-blind recruitment.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 21 July 2017 to Question 5399, on public sector: procurement, how the response that the information on whether a certificate of past performance is self-certificated is not stored centr

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Civil Servants: Recruitment

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to data published by the Office for National Statistics in July 2017, how many of the 555 additional staff employed in digital, data and technology roles in the Civil Service since March 2016 were

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Automation

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the savings to the public purse as a result of the robotic process automation campaign put out to tender by his Department; and what the evidential basis was for that estimate.

4 Sep 2017 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Cybercrime

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many distributed denial of service cyber attacks on central Government Departments have occurred in each year since 2010.

20 Jul 2017 · Home Office

Violence against Women and Girls Ministerial Group

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times and on which dates the Inter-Ministerial Group on Violence Against Women and Girls has met since 13 October 2016.

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Written Statement of 17 July 2017, on HS2 update, HCWS49, what the average number of bids received was per contract awarded.

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Written Statement of 17 July 2017, on HS2 update, HCWS49, how many contracts were awarded through framework agreements.

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Written Statement of 17 July 2017, on HS2 update, HCWS49, how the estimate of 60 per cent for the number of contract opportunities going to small and medium-sized enterprises was calculate

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Written Statement of 17 July 2017, on HS2 update, HCWS49, how the estimate of 7,000 further contract opportunities was calculated.

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to his Written Statement of 17 July 2017, on HS2 update, HCWS49, how many of the contracts awarded he required a certificate of past performance; and whether his Department accepted self-certific

18 Jul 2017 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Department for Exiting the European Union: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 18 July 2017 to Question 3956, on procurement, which contract was cancelled; and what the status was of that contract at cancellation.

17 Jul 2017 · Cabinet Office

Public Sector: Procurement

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 3603, on public sector: procurement, how many of the 295 certificates were self-certificated.

12 Jul 2017 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Gaming Machines

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make it her policy to reduce the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals from £100 to £2.

11 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

High Speed 2 Line

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will meet with the hon. Member for Hemsworth before the next major announcement on Phase 2 of High Speed 2.

11 Jul 2017 · Department for Transport

Crofton against HS2

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will meet the Crofton Against HS2 campaign before the next major announcement on Phase 2 of High Speed 2.

11 Jul 2017 · HM Treasury

Office of Tax Simplification: Secondment

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 11 July 2017 to Question 3399, on Office of Tax Simplification: secondment, from which companies and organisations the nine secondments were; and how long each of those secondments lasted.

11 Jul 2017 · Attorney General

Department for Exiting the European Union: Legal Profession

To ask the Attorney General, how many lawyers in the Government Legal Department provide services to the Department of Exiting the European Union; how many of those lawyers have been seconded from outside the Civil Service; and from which firms those lawy

11 Jul 2017 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Red Tape Initiative

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether he plans to step down as a member of the advisory board of the Red Tape Initiative following his re-appointment to the Cabinet.

10 Jul 2017 · Department for Exiting the European Union

Department for Exiting the European Union: Procurement

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many bids were on average received for each contract put out to tender by his Department since it was established.

Source: official written-questions record.