Written questions

841 written questions tabled, most recent first.

18 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Infrastructure: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether it is Government policy to prevent an organisation's involvement in UK Critical National Infrastructure unless the Government receives a guarentee of that organisation's reliability and security.

18 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2018 to Question 201213 on Cybercrime, if he will publish an exhaustive list of the activities that are supported through the National Cyber Security Programme to specifical

17 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

Surrogacy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to bring forward proposals to change the law on surrogacy.

17 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electronic Government: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total cost to the public purse was of verifying user identities through Gov.UK Verify for the purpose of accessing services provided by each Department in the last financial year; and how many total use

17 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Data Protection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Government security profession unit has a target for the number of cyber-security professionals it plans to recruit.

17 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Data Protection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many Government Departments use (a) a domain message authentication reporting and conformance cybersecurity system (b) a system for identifying external emails to recipients and (c) a protocol for timely sta

12 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Data Protection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2018 to Question 196203 and with reference to the Government's Technology Code of Practice principles Cloud First policy, whether it is Government policy to prevent any gove

12 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Written Questions

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when he plans to answer Question 169861 on Government: Databases tabled on 3 September 2018.

11 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to allow UK cyber security and threat intelligence researchers to protect organisations th

11 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Public Bodies: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2018 to Question 196902 on Cybercrime, if he will publish the activities that are supported through the National Cyber Security Programme to specifically support (a) Governme

10 Dec 2018 · Department of Health and Social Care

General Practitioners

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2018 to Question 188904, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the voluntary erasure code in cases where a GP is under investigation.

5 Dec 2018 · Home Office

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made any assessment of the effect on the international competitiveness of UK companies as a result of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

5 Dec 2018 · Cabinet Office

Local Government: Internet

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent assessment he has made of the number of local authorities utilising a protective domain name system.

28 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund: Public Sector

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, for what reasons Government Departments' and other public bodies were excluded from applying to the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund.

27 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity: New Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to the Cyber Accelerator Scheme, what steps he has taken to ensure that the results of technological and cyber innovation funded by public investment are made available to

27 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the total cost to the public purse of the Cyber Accelerator scheme has been to date; and what criteria his Department is using to determine the scheme's success.

27 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybercrime: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2018 to Question 190517, Cybercrime: Small Businesses, whether Government funding is available to small and medium-sized businesses to help them ach

27 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many applications (a) submitted to and (b) approved by the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund there were in each of the three award ranges set out in the application guidance.

27 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Data Protection

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what factors are taken into consideration when decisions are taken on storing government data by contracted private sector cloud companies.

26 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Infrastructure: Cybersecurity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans are in place to ensure that operators of critical national infrastructure are resourced with (a) an adequate number of and (b) adequately skilled employees to protect against cyber threats.

23 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybercrime

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what recent estimate he has made of the number of consumers who will benefit from the Cyber Accelerator scheme; and whether he has set a target for such numbers.

14 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Electronic Government: Proof of Identity

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the cost to the public purse was of payments to Gov.uk Verify identity providers in each of the last three years.

12 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: Cryptography

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 51 of the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021, what recent estimate he has made of the cost per annum to Government of procuring private sector cryptography skills and technologi

12 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity: Small Businesses

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what Government funding is available to small and medium-sized businesses to help them achieve CyberEssentials certification.

9 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Government Departments: ICT

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what framework is used by Government when deciding whether digital projects should be completed in-house or contracted out.

9 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Cabinet Office: Public Appointments

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether the Chief Data Officer job in his Department has been filled; and if he will make a statement.

9 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

Business: Technology

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of the funding for digital and technology programmes was allocated to large companies in each of the last four years.

9 Nov 2018 · Cabinet Office

ICT: Skilled Workers

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to paragraph ten of the Government Document entitled Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre: Review by the National Security Adviser, published in December 2013, what recent assessment the Govern

9 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Government Departments: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what the total cost of the Cyber Essentials scheme has been to date.

9 Nov 2018 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Cybersecurity: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether his Department still plans to publish the Cyber Skills strategy in December 2018.

Source: official written-questions record.