Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any cyber attacks have been carried out on the UK which had the potential to affect its democratic processes.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The first duty of Government is to safeguard the nation, and we treat cyber security extremely seriously.
Our system of paper balloting and hand counting means UK voting mechanisms do not lend themselves to direct electronic manipulation.
The new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) offers UK organisations, including political parties, access to the best cyber security advice and support to help them meet their responsibility to protect their information and prevent cyber attacks from all possible threats.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking beyond those outlined in the Cyber Security Strategy of November 2016 to defend the UK from cyber attacks from abroad.
Answered by Ben Gummer
The Government is taking a number of ambitious steps to deliver the new National Cyber Security Strategy. This is supported by an increased, transformational investment of £1.9bn across a five year spending period.
A significant recent success was the launch of the National Cyber Security Centre. The Centre is working to deliver the National Cyber Security Strategy, to improve the UK’s ability to respond to major cyber incidents, provide expert guidance on cyber security and push technological innovation for better, more automatic large-scale cyber security.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly wage is for workers in the water transport sector.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly wage was for men in (a) full and (b) part-time employment in (i) Wansbeck constituency and (ii) the North East region in each year since 2010 according to the Office of National Statistics' standard industry classifications for each such year.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly wage was for women in (a) full and (b) part-time employment in (i) Wansbeck constituency and (ii) the North East region in each year since 2010 according to the Office of National Statistics' standard industry classifications for each such year.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Ian Lavery (Labour - Blyth and Ashington)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the average weekly wage is for UK-domiciled seafarers.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.