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HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI very much agree. I have been a great advocate for making sure that children are taught both digital opportunity and digital risk. I will make sure that my noble friend Lady…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkWe learn from abroad, which I am always very much in favour of, but we also do things our own way. Noble Lords will remember that the Government launched and tested the emergency…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkMy Lords, the resilience framework set out the Government’s commitment to publishing the first annual statement to Parliament on civil contingencies risk and performance on…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkThe statement is still in preparation. I take note of the noble Lord’s points and thank him for the contributions that he has made, notably on the debate that we had on resilience…04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI draw the noble Lord’s attention to the developments in openness that there have been. We now have a UK Resilience Forum, which was established to bring together the voluntary…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI thank the noble Baroness for her point. I will write to her, if I may.04 Sept 2023HANSARDUK Government Resilience FrameworkI think we are very aware of the need for symbiosis and have indeed been thinking about that in the way we have set this up and led the way, with the resilience framework, which…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI am grateful to the noble Baroness for raising that point, not least since I raised it myself about 10 minutes ago when I was being briefed for this Question. There was some…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesI described the new, more resilient system that we have got. There is a big focus on cyber and cyberattacks; individual Government Ministers take that very seriously. We have set…04 Sept 2023HANSARDElectoral Commission: Data BreachesThat is a point well made. In a sense, the noble Baroness’s question is about why this took so long, especially in relation to the Electoral Commission. The Electoral Commission…04 Sept 2023HANSARDOfficial Statistics Order 2023That the draft Order laid before the House on 19 June be approved. Considered in Grand Committee on 19 July .24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualThe noble Lord makes a good point. I said that we are looking ahead to timing, bearing in mind the general election, and I repeat that undertaking. I am glad that he mentioned the…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualThat matter would be beyond my responsibility. As I was speaking, I was thinking of the Written Questions I get and how they are often seen as a poor relation. However, in them I…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualThat probably goes beyond the Cabinet Manual point and may be more urgent. I will see what I can do for my noble friend.24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualIf the noble Lord would be kind enough to share the example with me, as I look after FoI requests and many Parliamentary Questions, I will see what happened.24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualI share the noble Lord’s concerns about delays to answering Parliamentary Questions, which we all try to do our best to answer in time. When departments get behind, we are rightly…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualI will certainly take that point away. It is obviously a UK Government document; it is signed off by UK Ministers, who are accountable to the UK Parliament. However, one of the…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualI thank my noble friend. As I explained, it is to some extent an outline document. There is guidance on ministerial correspondence, which he may not be aware of; I will certainly…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualI will check to see whether that is intended, but I will certainly look very positively at the point the noble Lord has made, and, indeed, at the Seven Principles of Public Life.…24 Jul 2023HANSARDCabinet ManualThe procedure we are going to follow is to engage the committees, as I explained, because they can do a good job in bringing together the views of parliamentarians on the Cabinet…24 Jul 2023