Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, which news applications staff in his Department are authorised to download and use on their work-provided phones and tablets.

Staff in the Department for Transport and its Agencies are not authorised to download any news applications on their work provided phones and tablets. There is an exception for staff in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) where the following official news applications are available in their works app store to download to their work-provided devices:

· Sky News

· GOV.UK news

· Microsoft (Bing) news

Some devices are configured for business and personal use. Application downloads on the business side are prohibited. On the personal side, staff can download applications from the relevant app store at their own expense, but no record is kept.