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Written Question
Cabinet Office: ICT
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Pat McFadden (Labour - Wolverhampton South East)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

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.

Answered by Alex Burghart - Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)

Cabinet Office Digital first carried out an audit between September 2022 and Feb 2023, as part of the work to upgrade our IT estate.

It has created a framework for managing legacy systems in the department and we are proactively working with the Central Digital & Data Office (CDDO), reporting and feeding back updates on progress.

The Cabinet Office aims to have remediation plans in place for these systems next year.


Written Question
Veterans: Suicide
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Liz Twist (Labour - Blaydon)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether official statistics on suicides in armed forces veterans will be published annually.

Answered by Johnny Mercer - Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)

The Office for Veterans’ Affairs, Office for National Statistics and the Ministry of Defence have collaboratively developed a new approach for calculating veteran suicides in England and Wales.

This year, the ONS published suicide statistics for 2021 using this new approach and it intends to continue publishing veteran suicide stats on a yearly basis.




Written Question
Cabinet Office: Public Expenditure
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the administration costs of his Department were in each year since his appointment.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Prime Minister’s Office is a business unit of the Cabinet Office.

Information for 2022-23 can be found in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

Information for the last financial year will be published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24.


Written Question
Prime Minister: Public Expenditure
Wednesday 24th April 2024

Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the total administration costs were for the Prime Minister’s Office in the last year.

Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office

The Prime Minister’s Office is a business unit of the Cabinet Office.

Information for 2022-23 can be found in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23, copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House.

Information for the last financial year will be published in the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24.


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Cabinet Office

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Alan Turing Institute: AI will be key to future national security decision making – but brings its own risks
Document: Alan Turing Institute: AI will be key to future national security decision making – but brings its own risks (webpage)
Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Cabinet Office

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Manchester’s First Street Hub reaches ‘topping out’ milestone
Document: Manchester’s First Street Hub reaches ‘topping out’ milestone (webpage)
Deposited Papers
Cabinet Office

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Letter dated 17/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to Hansard Editors regarding a correction to an answer given during an adjournment debate on scrutiny of secretaries of state in the House of Lords. 1p.
Document: Correction_letter-debate_on_Scrutiny_of_SoS_in_the_Lords.pdf (PDF)
Commons Chamber
Infected Blood Inquiry - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office
Westminster Hall
Lithium: Critical Minerals Supply - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Cabinet Office
Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Cabinet Office

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: Defending Britain
Document: Defending Britain (webpage)