Charlie Dewhirst MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Cabinet Office: Electronic Purchasing Card SolutionDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 62331More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Government Procurement Card spend over £500 - April 2025 (Spending by Business Units no longer part of Cabinet Office), published
Answer: The expenditure at Woolley's, as recorded in the Cabinet Office’s Government Procurement Card data for April 2025, covered catering (tea and coffee) for URCON 25, the cross-government User Researcher Conference held in April 2025. The event brought togeth...
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Artificial IntelligenceDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 26 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 41651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what guidance his Department has issued on the use of third-party AI tools in relation to topics with a security classification; and what assessment he has made of whether such AI tools
Answer: The AI Playbook for the UK Government acknowledges the use of third-party AI tools, offering high-level guidance on commercial, legal, and security aspects. Principle 8 advises consulting Commercial colleagues on procurement (p. 39) to ensure that expecta...
Answered 4 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordGovernment Departments: Cost EffectivenessDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 24 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 40906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to the speech entitled PM remarks on the fundamental reform of the British state, published on 13 March 2025, on what methodological basis the Prime Minister said that th
Answer: The Government’s £45 billion estimate is based on a detailed analysis employing three levers: automating routine tasks (£36 billion), migrating services online (£4 billion) and reducing fraud via digital compliance (£5 billion). This work scaled bespoke a...
Answered 3 Apr 2025
Original Parliament recordSpace: EU ActionDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 5 Mar 2025AnsweredUIN 35906More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions he has had with his EU counterparts on UK participation in the EU Space Programme.
Answer: A Government priority is for a ‘reset’ in relations with the European Union, with a particular focus on driving economic growth, and improving our security and trade relationship.Space has a fundamental role to play in achieving these ambitions, and we wi...
Answered 13 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordAstrophysics and Space DebrisDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34457More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which government departments and agencies are responsible for (a) civil contingency planning, (b) warning and (c) mitigation in relation to (i) Near-Earth Objects and (ii) space debris.
Answer: The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is responsible for civil contingency planning, warning and mitigation in relation to Near-Earth Objects and space debris.Risks associated with these events are considered as part of the national risk a...
Answered 10 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCenter for Countering Digital HateDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Feb 2025AnsweredUIN 34451More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 4 February 2025 to Question 26614 on Center for Countering Digital Hate, what the methodology is used to check whether (a) direct or (b) indirect funding has b
Answer: The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s financial systems were checked for record of any payments to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate. Other departments were not consulted.
Answered 7 Mar 2025
Original Parliament recordCenter for Countering Digital HateDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Jan 2025AnsweredUIN 26614More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether (a) his Department and (b) Ofcom has provided funding to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate.
Answer: As far as we are aware, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Ofcom have not provided funding to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate.
Answered 4 Feb 2025
Original Parliament recordArtificial Intelligence: Civil ServantsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 27 Nov 2024AnsweredUIN 16592More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the cost to the public purse is of AI training programmes for civil servants.
Answer: Learning in the civil service can be sourced either at a department level or centrally via a cross government learning framework. We are unable to share total consolidated spend but the spend associated with AI training purchased via the learning framewor...
Answered 6 Dec 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official CarsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11969More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 15 October 2024 to Question 7011 on Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official Cars, if she will publish a list of senior officials in his Dep
Answer: For security reasons specific details of allocations including make and model of vehicles are not issued.The arrangements relating to the usage of vehicles in the Government Car Service are set out in the Civil Service Management Code.
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official CarsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 30 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11968More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7010 on Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official Cars, how many of those vehicles are electric.
Answer: For security reasons specific details of allocations including make and model of vehicles are not issued.The arrangements relating to the usage of vehicles in the Government Car Service are set out in the Civil Service Management Code.
Answered 8 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment For Science, Innovation And Technology: MinistersDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 15 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 9343More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what meetings (a) Ministers and (b) his officials have held with external stakeholders since 5 July 2024.
Answer: Details of ministers’ and senior officials’ meetings with external individuals and organisations are published quarterly in arrears on GOV.UK. Data for the period of July to September 2024 will be published in due course.
Answered 23 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official CarsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7011More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what his Department's policy is on the allocation of Government Car Service cars to senior officials; what the policy was on 24 May 2024; and which senior officials have been granted ac
Answer: The Government Car Service (GCS) offers vehicles to government departments as a shared resource. Each department independently determines the allocation of these vehicles.The arrangements relating to the using of vehicles in the Government Car Service is ...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Original Parliament recordDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology: Official CarsDepartment for Science, Innovation and TechnologyTabled 4 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 7010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answers of 6 September 2024 to Questions 2306 and 2308 on Ministers: Official Cars, which (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have (i) been allocated a ded
Answer: The Government Car Service (GCS) offers vehicles to government departments as a shared resource. Each department independently determines the allocation of these vehicles to its ministerial cadre/officials, as under previous administrations. The Departmen...
Answered 14 Oct 2024
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