Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many meetings the hon. Member for Wycombe, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Steve Baker has held with the policy adviser Shanker Singham since July 2017.
Answered by Robin Walker
All meetings on official business are declared in the transparency returns and can be found on the GOV.UK page: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=department-for-exiting-the-european-union&publication_type=transparency-data.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many leak enquiries his Department has undertaken in the last two years.
Answered by Suella Braverman
The leak of any Government information or material is not acceptable and the Government takes such incidents very seriously.
It has been the policy of successive Governments not to comment on security matters other than in exceptional circumstances when it is in the public interest to do so.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many page views there were of his Department's Ministerial diaries in each of the last 12 months.
Answered by Steve Baker
We do not have the means to measure page views for the Department’s ministerial diaries. However the following Department for Exiting the European Union gov.uk pages which contain information on ministerial meetings have had the associated number of page views in total over the last 12 months or since their publication -
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-october-to-december-2017 – 1349 views
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-and-meetings-july-to-september-2017 - 1382 views
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-april-to-june-2017 – 1515 views
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-january-to-march-2017 – 1390 views
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-october-to-december-2016 – 677 views
/government/publications/department-for-exiting-the-european-union-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings-july-to-september-2016 – 144 views
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what apps his Department has approved for use of mobile phones issued by his Department.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union does not have a bespoke IT system or dedicated mobile phone provision.
The Department’s IT and mobile phone service is hosted by the Cabinet Office. Given national security concerns they feel it would be inappropriate to publicly supply a list of applications approved for use on mobile phones issued by the Cabinet Office. I can confirm that the Cabinet Office acts in full compliance with National Cyber Security guidance on the use of third party Apps.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/index/guidance
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many IT systems which his Department uses are more than (a) three, (b) five and (c) eight years old; and what steps he is taking to ensure that all his Department's IT systems are updated promptly.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting European Union has only existed as a Department for 20 months and as such does not have a bespoke IT system (or Systems). The Department’s IT is hosted by the Cabinet Office and uses their OFFICIAL Platform. I refer the Hon Member to the answer to Question 136126 from the Cabinet Office where they have provided the details of their approach to updating and patching.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what proportion of his Department's estate is (a) rented, (b) owned and (c) occupied through any other type of agreement.
Answered by Steve Baker
All of the estate occupied by the Department for Exiting the European Union is in buildings owned by other government departments. None of this space is owned by the Department and arrangements are in place for the Department to pay the landlord departments for the costs of occupancy.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many ministerial directions were issued to his Department in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
Answered by Steve Baker
No Ministerial Directions have been issued to the Department for Exiting the European Union since its formation.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to Answer of 8 January 2018 to Question 118968, where in those returns the names of the attendees at the UK Ferry Companies Roundtable attended by Lord Bridges of Headley are located.
Answered by Steve Baker
The names of all attendees at this meeting are not held centrally.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which of his Department's Quarterly Transparency Returns contains the list of attendees at the meetings referenced in Questions 119375, 119359, 119349, 119342, 119051, 119043, 118993, 118986, 118972, 118958, 118954, 118951 and 118948.
Answered by Steve Baker
The names of all attendees at these meetings are not held centrally.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Normanton and Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to his Department's publication Ministerial Meetings: January to March 2017, if he will publish the names of the attendees at the UK Ferry Companies Roundtable attended by Lord Bridges of Headley.
Answered by Steve Baker
Details of Ministerial and senior official meetings are published in the Department’s Quarterly Transparency Returns, which are made publicly available on GOV.UK.