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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what total software and digital development cost was incurred in establishing the online application system for BICS.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what total software and digital development cost was incurred in establishing the online application system for BICS.
The software and digital development cost incurred in establishing the online application system for BICS, along with the eligibility checker in being managed in line with departmental accounting processes. Data will be available after year end in the Annual Report and Accounts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on UK businesses of the requirement to accept Meta's revised website-crawling provisions or cease using its commercial services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact on UK businesses of the requirement to accept Meta's revised website-crawling provisions or cease using its commercial services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) extending right-to-repair requirements to (i) smart devices and (ii) a wider range of consumer products and (b) introducing minimum functionality or software-support periods.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) extending right-to-repair requirements to (i) smart devices and (ii) a wider range of consumer products and (b) introducing minimum functionality or software-support periods.
The Government has introduced repairability requirements and minimum software-support periods for specified products, such as electronic displays, fridges and dishwashers. Similar requirements for other products will be considered over time.
Repair and reuse are fundamental tenets of a circular economy. We established a Circular Economy Task Force to co-design our approach and will outline our next steps shortly.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the impact on patients resident in England and registered with Scottish GP practices of challenges in accessing the NHS App, including the ability to view, manage or book hospital appointments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the impact on patients resident in England and registered with Scottish GP practices of challenges in accessing the NHS App, including the ability to view, manage or book hospital appointments.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of healthcare access arrangements for residents of border communities in England who are registered with GP practices in Scotland, including access to hospital appointments, the NHS App and other digital patient...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of healthcare access arrangements for residents of border communities in England who are registered with GP practices in Scotland, including access to hospital appointments, the NHS App and other digital patient...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the anticipated timeframe for improving the adequacy of proxy access within the NHS app, to allow carers and relatives to assist in the management of care recipient's healthcare, including amending repeat prescriptions, irrespective of their registered GP...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is the anticipated timeframe for improving the adequacy of proxy access within the NHS app, to allow carers and relatives to assist in the management of care recipient's healthcare, including amending repeat prescriptions, irrespective of their registered GP...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of unused prescription medication, including the cost of disposal; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the waste of prescription medicine, including through (a) regular...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate she has made of the cost to the NHS of unused prescription medication, including the cost of disposal; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce the waste of prescription medicine, including through (a) regular...
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure blind and partially sighted people are involved in the design and testing of NHS digital services, including the NHS App.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure blind and partially sighted people are involved in the design and testing of NHS digital services, including the NHS App.
I refer the Hon Member to the National Health Service guidance available at the link below, which includes the steps taken to recruit users of digital services with different disabilities to test and improve the accessibility of each service:
The guidance is set out in the NHS Service Standard, which requires NHS digital services to be designed so that everyone can use them, including through involving people with disabilities in user research, testing, and service improvement activities.
NHS England applies these principles in the development of the NHS App. The NHS App team follows an inclusive design approach and involves people with lived experience of disability in user research and service development, including engagement with the Royal National Institute of Blind People and people with sight loss to help shape and test services. The team works with specialist organisations and representative groups, and co-designs and tests new features with users who have a range of access needs, including blind and partially sighted people.
The team also undertakes regular independent accessibility audits, tests services against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA standards, and operates dedicated Accessibility Labs to support the development of accessible and inclusive digital services. NHS England has also strengthened its accessibility and inclusive design capability to help ensure that accessibility is considered throughout the development and improvement of digital health services.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resilience of legacy software used in NATS flight processing systems; and what discussions she has had with NATS on the timetable for replacing those systems.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the resilience of legacy software used in NATS flight processing systems; and what discussions she has had with NATS on the timetable for replacing those systems.
The Secretary of State has commissioned the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to lead an independent investigation of the NATS outage on 8 September, which will also consider the technical issue that occurred in Prestwick on 21 September. The review will examine the causes of the incidents, broader questions relating to NATS' resilience, capital investment and modernisation plans, helping to identify any lessons needed to strengthen the resilience of the UK air traffic management system.
The Department also receives regular updates from NATS on the modernisation of its air traffic control systems, with technical changes closely monitored and overseen by the CAA as the independent regulator.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether speech-to-text or automated transcription software is used to record credibility interviews.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether speech-to-text or automated transcription software is used to record credibility interviews.
Applicants are not routinely provided with the interview record before a decision is made. They may request a copy by making a subject access request
The Home Office does not routinely publish the proportion of Student route applicants, by nationality, who are required to attend a credibility interview. The information could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
Interviews are currently conducted by video call and are not audio-recorded or automatically transcribed. Further information is available in the published Student and Child Student caseworker guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/student-route-caseworker-guidance/student-and-child-stud…
UK Visas and Immigration may conduct a credibility interview when assessing whether a Student route applicant is a genuine student from all nationailites. This may include consideration of the applicant’s reasons for studying in the UK, knowledge of their course, career plans and English-language ability.
Information on the number of Student route entry clearance refusals withdrawn following representations from Honourable Members is not centrally held and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost. An eligible refusal decision may be challenged through an administrative review.
My Honourable Friend the Minister for the Future of Work, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (Kate Dearden MP) has today made the following Statement.
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of...
My Honourable Friend the Minister for the Future of Work, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (Kate Dearden MP) has today made the following Statement.
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of...
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of their own. The Government is determined to right these historic wrongs by completing its pledge to ensure that affected postmasters receive the redress they deserve.
When...
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of their own. The Government is determined to right these historic wrongs by completing its pledge to ensure that affected postmasters receive the redress they deserve.
When...
My Honourable Friend the Minister for the Future of Work, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (Kate Dearden MP) has today made the following Statement.
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of...
My Honourable Friend the Minister for the Future of Work, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (Kate Dearden MP) has today made the following Statement.
The Horizon and Capture scandals caused profound harm to postmasters, many of whom suffered years of financial, personal and reputational damage through no fault of...
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 6 October 2026 to question 22839 on Defence: Software, if the £4,739,000 loss related to a payment made in order to settle the contract.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 6 October 2026 to question 22839 on Defence: Software, if the £4,739,000 loss related to a payment made in order to settle the contract.
The £4.739 million constructive loss did not relate solely to a payment made to settle the contract. The loss comprised £3.984 million of costs incurred on the project prior to its cancellation and a negotiated final settlement payment of £755,435 for work undertaken up to the point of cancellation.
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the new database of all private rented housing, whether there will be a facility to bulk upload data on properties to the database using a standard format; and if not, whether landlords, including corporate build-to-rent providers who let thousands of properties, will...
To ask His Majesty's Government, in light of the new database of all private rented housing, whether there will be a facility to bulk upload data on properties to the database using a standard format; and if not, whether landlords, including corporate build-to-rent providers who let thousands of properties, will...
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason and on what evidential basis is the Department proposing to restrict funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance to exceptional circumstances only.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason and on what evidential basis is the Department proposing to restrict funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance to exceptional circumstances only.
The consultation proposals do not seek to restrict all assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance to exceptional circumstances only. Full details of the proposals can be found in the consultation document, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/assistive-software-funded-through-disabled-students-allowance.
A key purpose of the consultation is to understand the extent to which advances in mainstream functionality can appropriately meet disability-related needs and where specialist software continues to be required. This does not intend to remove support where it is needed, but to ensure provision is appropriately targeted. Decisions would continue to be made on a case-by-case basis.
The department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposals on course completion or graduate employment rates. An initial equality impact assessment is included in the consultation document and will be developed as the department considers consultation responses.
The department has undertaken internal indicative cost modelling on the potential financial impact of the proposals set out in the recent consultation on assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance, which suggests that any estimates would be highly uncertain. No final decisions have been made.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of restricting funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance on the course completion and graduate employment rates of disabled students.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of restricting funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance on the course completion and graduate employment rates of disabled students.
The consultation proposals do not seek to restrict all assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance to exceptional circumstances only. Full details of the proposals can be found in the consultation document, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/assistive-software-funded-through-disabled-students-allowance.
A key purpose of the consultation is to understand the extent to which advances in mainstream functionality can appropriately meet disability-related needs and where specialist software continues to be required. This does not intend to remove support where it is needed, but to ensure provision is appropriately targeted. Decisions would continue to be made on a case-by-case basis.
The department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposals on course completion or graduate employment rates. An initial equality impact assessment is included in the consultation document and will be developed as the department considers consultation responses.
The department has undertaken internal indicative cost modelling on the potential financial impact of the proposals set out in the recent consultation on assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance, which suggests that any estimates would be highly uncertain. No final decisions have been made.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the proposals to restricting funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the proposals to restricting funded specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance.
The consultation proposals do not seek to restrict all assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance to exceptional circumstances only. Full details of the proposals can be found in the consultation document, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/assistive-software-funded-through-disabled-students-allowance.
A key purpose of the consultation is to understand the extent to which advances in mainstream functionality can appropriately meet disability-related needs and where specialist software continues to be required. This does not intend to remove support where it is needed, but to ensure provision is appropriately targeted. Decisions would continue to be made on a case-by-case basis.
The department has not made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposals on course completion or graduate employment rates. An initial equality impact assessment is included in the consultation document and will be developed as the department considers consultation responses.
The department has undertaken internal indicative cost modelling on the potential financial impact of the proposals set out in the recent consultation on assistive software funded through Disabled Students’ Allowance, which suggests that any estimates would be highly uncertain. No final decisions have been made.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to ensure that future digital inclusion programmes are not dependent on software licences from a single provider.
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans her Department has to ensure that future digital inclusion programmes are not dependent on software licences from a single provider.
Everyone in every community should benefit from technology, including access to appropriate software that meets individual needs.
People need high-quality devices with compatible, up to date software, to maximise their use. Through the IT Reuse for Good Charter, and government pilot, our delivery partners refurbished devices with software suited to the recipient’s needs. For future programmes, we are exploring how software provision can be made more sustainable, accessible, and suitable for individual needs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department operates a software asset management system to maintain a central record of its software licences; and when his Department last completed a review of its software estate to identify dependencies and redundancies.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether his Department operates a software asset management system to maintain a central record of its software licences; and when his Department last completed a review of its software estate to identify dependencies and redundancies.
The Department does not currently operate a dedicated Software Asset Management (SAM) system that maintains a single, central record of all software licences across its estate.
The Department most recently conducted a review of its software estate in 2025 through an application portfolio exercise, which consolidated data from multiple sources to improve understanding of software and applications in use across the Department. As part of a broader technology improvement programme, the department aims to have all software assets catalogued, mapped and proactively managed by the end of 2027.