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(4) how much has been spent on the Digital Services Framework in each month to date; and what proportion of such spending was with small and medium-sized enterprises;
Chi Onwurah:
(4) how much has been spent on the Digital Services Framework in each month to date; and what proportion of such spending was with small and medium-sized enterprises;
Chi Onwurah:
At the time of the last general election this country was spending more than almost any other country in the developed world on ICT but the quality of the services and technology offered to civil servants and to the public was hardly impressive. Departments were—and in many cases are—burdened with legacy IT equipment which is not appropriate for a modern workplace. In addition there was a long-standing shortage of digital skills.
After the general election, the Cabinet Office launched the new Government Digital Service to support Departments in digitising public services and to redesign our online offering to the public.
Prior to August 2010, £27,000 was spent on hosting the Cabinet Office site (as well as other agency sites). In August of that year, we switched to using cloud-based services. For 2012-13, £2,623 was spent maintaining the Cabinet Office website. In February 2013 Cabinet Office joined gov.uk. The creation of gov.uk saved £42 million in 2012-13 and £50 million estimated savings for 2013-14 for gov.uk from closing down Directgov and BusinessLink.
The Capabilities Plan, which is refreshed annually, reports on digital skills across the civil service. The Cabinet Office publishes Quarterly Progress Reports
against the Government Digital Strategy which covers digital capability, as does the Government Digital Strategy 2013 Annual Report. All of these are readily available online.
Prior to 2010 agile methods were not required. The Government Digital by Default Service Standard requires new or redesigned digital services to be developed using agile methods. Compliance is ensured through cross-Government IT spending controls. Prior to the last general election there was no-cross Government IT spending controls. These helped saved £500 million for taxpayers in 2012-13 alone, contributing to an unprecedented £10 billion of efficiency savings in that year. All of this could have been initiated prior to 2010. There are currently five agile coach positions in Cabinet Office.
Prior to the last general election there was no central monitoring of spend with SMEs. Various bureaucratic procurement practices mitigated against SMEs and resulted in a playing field which was biased against SMEs. The Digital Services framework went live in November 2013. 83% of the suppliers are SMEs. Of the nine competitions so far awarded five have gone to SMEs—this is 30% by value.
Under an IT contract signed in 2009, Cabinet Office staff IT costs around £7,000 per user per annum. We want staff to have IT equipment which actually suits their needs to allow everyone to work effectively and drive up productivity. As part of that we will consider giving staff equipment including tablets and mobile devices when there is an appropriate business need. For further details I refer the hon. Member to HC Deb, 7 March 2013, c1140W.
My Lords, I would like to place on record my thanks to all noble Lords for the spirit of collaboration and constructive criticism that has characterised our formal and informal discussions leading up to this moment. Your Lordships examined
the Bill thoroughly when it started in this House, and made...
My Lords, I would like to place on record my thanks to all noble Lords for the spirit of collaboration and constructive criticism that has characterised our formal and informal discussions leading up to this moment. Your Lordships examined
the Bill thoroughly when it started in this House, and made...
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin) has made the following Ministerial Statement:
On 24 July 2012, at the same time that the Great Western Intercity Express Programme (IEP) fleet was financed, commercial close was reached for the East Coast fleet of IEP trains. On 18...
My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Transport (Patrick McLoughlin) has made the following Ministerial Statement:
On 24 July 2012, at the same time that the Great Western Intercity Express Programme (IEP) fleet was financed, commercial close was reached for the East Coast fleet of IEP trains. On 18...
On 24 July 2012, at the same time that the Great Western intercity express programme (IEP) fleet was financed, commercial close was reached for the east coast fleet of IEP trains. On 18 July 2013, I informed the House of my decision to exercise a pre-priced option within those contracts...
On 24 July 2012, at the same time that the Great Western intercity express programme (IEP) fleet was financed, commercial close was reached for the east coast fleet of IEP trains. On 18 July 2013, I informed the House of my decision to exercise a pre-priced option within those contracts...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that women's rehabilitation centres do not close due to any lack of funding before Transforming Rehabilitation contracts are awarded.[HL5263]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that women's rehabilitation centres do not close due to any lack of funding before Transforming Rehabilitation contracts are awarded.[HL5263]
We invested £5.8m on specific services for female offenders in the community in 2013/14, through Trust contract and partnership arrangements. This figure includes the £3.78m specifically ring-fenced for this purpose. We are committed to the continued funding of existing women’s community services during the transitional period of the Transforming Rehabilitation Programme.
The contracts that are in place between Probation Trusts and Women's Community Services in 2014/15 will then transfer to the respective Community Rehabilitation Companies. Potential new providers of probation services will be required to show how they
are going to meet the needs of female offenders as they develop their bids and this will be a key evaluation criteria.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Specialised Services Commissioning Innovation Fund is due to recommence accepting bids.[HL5068]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government when the Specialised Services Commissioning Innovation Fund is due to recommence accepting bids.[HL5068]
In April 2013, NHS England became the direct commissioner of specialised services. In order to achieve a nationally consistent approach to commissioning, it had to bring together differing regional and local approaches to contracting with providers, different sets of standards, and varying levels of access to services around the country.
NHS England has advised that the scale of the task has resulted in a level of unplanned expenditure. To manage this unplanned expenditure both in year and into the future, NHS England has needed to concentrate its efforts on its core commissioning requirements. The Specialised Services Commissioning Innovation Fund announced by NHS England in August 2013, sits outside the core requirements and in October NHS England reluctantly took the decision to suspend it.
NHS England has advised that once these challenges have been addressed and its five year strategy for specialised services has been developed, it will be able to reconsider how best to support the adoption of innovations in specialised services.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of net reductions in Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) funding on commissioning from hospital trusts situated outside the local authority in which the relevant CCG is based; and in particular on the Newcastle Hospital Trust.[HL4773]
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the impact of net reductions in Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) funding on commissioning from hospital trusts situated outside the local authority in which the relevant CCG is based; and in particular on the Newcastle Hospital Trust.[HL4773]
The Government, by protecting the overall health budget for England, is allowing NHS England to ensure that every clinical commissioning group (CCG) continues to benefit from stable real-term funding for the next two years: CCGs will receive allocation growth of at least 2.14% in 2014-15 and 1.70% in 2015-16. NHS England announced CCG allocations on 17 December 2013.
Alongside these allocations, NHS England is conducting a programme of planning work across the National Health Service in conjunction with CCGs, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority. This will set in place two-year operational plans and accompanying five-year strategic plans for the health system.
As an integral part of these plans, local areas should be looking to create new, different and more integrated ways of providing health and care services to secure the continuity of sustainable high quality care for all. The Better Care Fund, set up to energise the redesign and joining-up of services, is available to turn these plans into reality.
Patients will not see services close unless clinical commissioners are satisfied, based on evidence, that they are in a position to put better, higher quality alternatives in place.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Streeter. I thank the Minister for taking time out of what must be a busy diary to come to this debate. I am delighted to have secured this debate because I believe that manufacturing plays a very important part in...
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Streeter. I thank the Minister for taking time out of what must be a busy diary to come to this debate. I am delighted to have secured this debate because I believe that manufacturing plays a very important part in...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and I congratulate him on securing this enormously important debate. It is important to celebrate the success of our leading-edge manufacturers, so will he join me in congratulating MINI, which has its plant in my constituency, on its sales going...
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way and I congratulate him on securing this enormously important debate. It is important to celebrate the success of our leading-edge manufacturers, so will he join me in congratulating MINI, which has its plant in my constituency, on its sales going...
I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. That example underlines what I am about to discuss, which are quality, design and improving market share. MINI is a true example of that.
The success of such businesses highlights that, without a strong manufacturing base, there can be no rebalancing...
I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. That example underlines what I am about to discuss, which are quality, design and improving market share. MINI is a true example of that.
The success of such businesses highlights that, without a strong manufacturing base, there can be no rebalancing...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I congratulate him on getting this important debate and must declare an interest in the manufacturing sector. Does he agree that this or any future Government need to remove the bureaucracy that affects companies, in particular SMEs, so that they can concentrate...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. I congratulate him on getting this important debate and must declare an interest in the manufacturing sector. Does he agree that this or any future Government need to remove the bureaucracy that affects companies, in particular SMEs, so that they can concentrate...
I share the hon. Gentleman’s comments. SMEs clearly need all the help they can get to close in on markets and to increase their market share.
I share the hon. Gentleman’s comments. SMEs clearly need all the help they can get to close in on markets and to increase their market share.
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I will make a little progress and will then give way.
I offer as evidence the innovation of a well-loved son of Greenock in my constituency. I dare say that hon. Members have heard of him. His name is James Watt. While his product has been consigned to history, his name...
I will make a little progress and will then give way.
I offer as evidence the innovation of a well-loved son of Greenock in my constituency. I dare say that hon. Members have heard of him. His name is James Watt. While his product has been consigned to history, his name...
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. Successive Governments have supported manufacturing in the west midlands, in particular Coventry, through their support for Jaguar Land Rover. The London Taxi Company was recently saved through useful agreements between the company and Jaguar Land Rover, because the trade unions were prepared...
I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. Successive Governments have supported manufacturing in the west midlands, in particular Coventry, through their support for Jaguar Land Rover. The London Taxi Company was recently saved through useful agreements between the company and Jaguar Land Rover, because the trade unions were prepared...
I note and accept my hon. Friend’s points and will develop them later in my speech.
The town of Greenock was not only the manufacturing birthplace of the personal computer back in the early 1980s but the innovation centre for surface-mounted technology and multi-layered processors, which have led to the powerful...
I note and accept my hon. Friend’s points and will develop them later in my speech.
The town of Greenock was not only the manufacturing birthplace of the personal computer back in the early 1980s but the innovation centre for surface-mounted technology and multi-layered processors, which have led to the powerful...
The hon. Gentleman is being generous in accepting so many interventions. As he says, innovation is the key to the future of a successful manufacturing industry. Does he agree that by incentivising R and D tax credits we are holding on to British manufacturers that might otherwise have gone overseas?
The hon. Gentleman is being generous in accepting so many interventions. As he says, innovation is the key to the future of a successful manufacturing industry. Does he agree that by incentivising R and D tax credits we are holding on to British manufacturers that might otherwise have gone overseas?
I will go on to describe that as a positive step forward later in my speech.
The manufacturing base moved and was lost when investment and encouragement in research and development stopped, and that is not the first time we have seen this. Indeed, history could be said to be repeating...
I will go on to describe that as a positive step forward later in my speech.
The manufacturing base moved and was lost when investment and encouragement in research and development stopped, and that is not the first time we have seen this. Indeed, history could be said to be repeating...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and apologise for not informing him that I intended to intervene. I congratulate him on securing this important debate. It is vital that we achieve consensus on the role and
importance of manufacturing in the UK, and I only wish that more...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way and apologise for not informing him that I intended to intervene. I congratulate him on securing this important debate. It is vital that we achieve consensus on the role and
importance of manufacturing in the UK, and I only wish that more...
Thank you, Mr Streeter. The report makes a number of important recommendations, from developing a long-term strategic fiscal framework to forming closer relationships with trade associations. I recommend the report to the hon. Gentleman and to anyone else who is interested in this debate.
Thank you, Mr Streeter. The report makes a number of important recommendations, from developing a long-term strategic fiscal framework to forming closer relationships with trade associations. I recommend the report to the hon. Gentleman and to anyone else who is interested in this debate.