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Written Question
Government Departments: Contracts
Wednesday 31st October 2018

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many government contracts have been awarded to companies based in Northern Ireland since June 2017.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

Since January 2011, details of central government contracts above the value of £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder.

Contracts published prior to 26 February 2015 can be viewed at: https://data.gov.uk/data/contracts-finder-archive

Those published after 26 February 2015 can be viewed at:

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search


Written Question
Part-time Employment: Graduates
Monday 2nd July 2018

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many graduates are currently in part-time work.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.


Written Question
Internet
Thursday 10th May 2018

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what his policy is on the provision of paper copies of (a) information and (b) application forms to people who do not have the requisite skills to access that information online.

Answered by Oliver Dowden

For the services it provides the Government has committed to ensuring that assistance is always available for those who are not online. To ensure that an appropriate offline route is available the Government Digital Service mandates government departments to provide assisted digital (offline) support for their services, where it is required, and assures this via its service assessment process.


Written Question
Self-employed
Monday 23rd April 2018

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people are registered self-employed.

Answered by Chloe Smith

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.


Written Question
Public Sector: Employment
Thursday 7th December 2017

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister of the Cabinet Office what the total number of Northern Irish workers currently employed by the public sector across the rest of the UK is.

Answered by Chris Skidmore

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.


Written Question
Cybercrime
Friday 15th September 2017

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans he has to review UK cyber-security capabilities.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

The National Cyber Security Strategy sets out objectives focused on defending against cyber threats, deterring adversaries and developing the skills and capabilities required to make the UK more cyber secure.

Cabinet Office have implemented a comprehensive framework for assessing performance against the objectives of the strategy.


Written Question
Cabinet Office: Corporate Hospitality
Thursday 14th April 2016

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many events hosted by newspaper proprietors (a) the Prime Minister has and (b) members of the Cabinet have attended in each of the last three years.

Answered by Matt Hancock

Details of Ministerial meetings with proprietors, editors and media executives are published routinely, and can be found on Gov.uk.


Written Question
Fraud: Telephone Services
Tuesday 1st December 2015

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information his Department holds on the number of people who have lost money through telephone scams (a) in each region and (b) in each of the last five years.

Answered by Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.


Written Question
Jobseeker's Allowance
Friday 23rd January 2015

Asked by: David Simpson (Democratic Unionist Party - Upper Bann)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people left jobseeker's allowance because they reached the state pension age in each of the last three years.

Answered by Rob Wilson

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.