Written questions by Wood.

Pursuant to the answer of 5 November 2025, to Question 85506, on Cabinet Office: Data Protection, how many people had their personal data compromised.

In relation to the eight incidents stated in Question 85506 a total of 148 individuals were affected. This is the total number as notified to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

With reference to the NISTA Annual Report 2024–25 dashboard, whether an evaluation has been completed for the project entitled Transforming Public Procurement in the Cabinet Office.

The Transforming Public Procurement programme is still in progress. An interim impact evaluation of the programme is planned for 2026. A full impact evaluation will be published on the Government Evaluation Registry in line with NISTA requirements for programmes on the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio.

Whether the Stabilisation Programme for UK Security Vetting has concluded; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of that programme on clearance times.

I am pleased to report that UKSV has delivered the objectives of delivering stability in its performance via the Delivery Stabilisation Programme (DSP) and continues to consistently meet its performance targets, as set out in the PAC report. It is now regarded as a stable service by customers. Following a stabilisation programme initiated in 2023, there have been sustained and stable improvements in performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPI) across all service levels of National Security Vetting clearances which includes Counter Terrorist Check (CTC), Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV). UKSV successfully delivered the final milestone of DSP on 1st April 2024. Across core services United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) is meeting all its targets against the full range of vetting products.

What proportion of Developed Vetting renewals have been completed within 95 days in each of the past six months, and what steps are being taken to improve performance.

United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) continues to meet its agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across each product type, including Developed Vetting renewal clearances.UKSV KPIs are set and regularly reviewed in consultation with customer groups, governed by ministerial oversight, to ensure demand is balanced whilst maintaining assurance in national security safeguards.In line with the practice followed by successive administrations, the Government does not otherwise comment on security matters.

If he will publish the Risk Vulnerability Tool.

The Risk Vulnerability Tool (RVT) is currently accessible to Ministers and officials across the UK and devolved governments. Its function is to assist officials in identifying vulnerable and at-risk communities to better mitigate impacts during times of crisis. The current developmental version of the tool will not be made public. However, in line with standard practice for government statistics, information detailing the RVT methodology will be published within a Quality and Methodology Information report once the methodology has been finalised.

Pursuant to the Answer of 13 October 2025 to Question 73729 on Ministers: Aviation, which journeys contributed to those emissions.

All travel using the GBNI aircraft is offset.As was the case under the previous administration, data on ministers’ travel is published on a quarterly basis which includes defining the mode of transport used.This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ministers-transparency-publications#2024

With reference to the Memorandum of Understanding: accessing HMRC information to assist honours committees in making ​recommendations​​​​​ about awarding honours to individuals, published on 19 October 2023, whether the HMRC Checking Panel’s deliberations are minuted and retained.

Under the published Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), HMRC will commission reports on the tax behaviour of nominees. The reports and risk ratings are retained in line with HMRC’s data retention policy, as set out in the MOU. Deliberations are not minuted, but the framework for decision making is published with the MOU.

Innovation and Technology, whether the National Cyber Security Centre has made an assessment of the adequacy of information security of the One Login system since July 2024.

GOV.UK One Login works closely with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which provides advice to the programme on a range of cyber security topics.

What the estimated cost is of The Ministers’ Etc. Pension Scheme (Amendment) 2025, dated 6 November 2025.

The Ministers’ Etc. Pension Scheme (Amendment) 2025 makes technical amendments to the rules to allow the cost control mechanism (CCM) process to be completed, and the Scheme does not incur a cost as a result of the changes. All public service pension schemes are subject to the CCM as part of the valuation cycle in line with HM Treasury policy. The CCM is designed to ensure a fair balance of risk with regard to the cost of providing public service pension schemes between members of those schemes and the Exchequer (and by extension taxpayers). If, when the CCM is tested, those costs are not within agreed target levels the member contributions are adjusted accordingly. Any administrative costs associated with drafting and implementing these regulations are negligible and have been absorbed within existing Cabinet Office budgets.

If he will make it his policy to ask government departments not to use the phrase devolved nations when referring to devolved administrations or legislatures.

Yes. This is already the Government's position. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be referred to by name or collectively as nations. Certain powers are devolved to institutions within those nations, which benefit from having two governments serving them. The nations, as constituent parts of this United Kingdom, are not devolved.

With reference to page 30 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, whether income received from the Government Property Agency, Government People Group, Government Commercial and Grants Function, Government Security Group, Central Finance, CO Digital and Government Communications is used to cross-subsidise departmental activity outside those business units.

No, the business units outlined in the question only recover incurred costs from providing services to other Government departments. As such there is no surplus recovered to be used to subsidise department activity outside those business units. This is in alignment with ‘Managing Public Money’ guidance from HM Treasury.

With reference to the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, whether any functional services operated by his Department generated (a) surpluses and (b) profit margins above full-cost recovery.

No functional services included within the Cabinet Office 2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts generated surpluses or profit margins above full-cost recovery during the 2024-2025 financial year. The Department ensures that fees and charges for services are set in accordance with the principles set out in HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money, including for full cost recovery unless a specific policy reason exists for not doing so.

With reference to page 16 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what proportion of the underspend in Departmental Expenditure Limit spending has been (a) returned to the Consolidated Fund and (b) re-profiled for spending in 2025–26.

At the end of the financial year, all underspends are returned to the Consolidated Fund. The Cabinet Office did not re-profile any spending into 2025-26 from 2024-25.

What progress he has made on achieving a 25 per cent reduction in the cost of regulation and a £550 million reduction in consultancy costs.

The Government is committed to cut the administrative burden of regulation on businesses by 25%, or £5.6bn by the end of this Parliament. So far, we have identified £1.5bn in gross administrative burden savings; cutting back on corporate reporting for tens of thousands of businesses and simplifying the regime for financial services senior managers. This Government will relentlessly root out waste, drive efficiencies, and protect taxpayers’ money. This is why we reduced consultancy spending by £550m in 2024/25 compared to previous plans, as set out at the July Spending Audit 2024.

With reference to the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, with reference to the target to reduce the cost of regulation by 25% on page 7, what the Government’s latest estimate is of the total cost of regulation to businesses and organisations in the public sector; what baseline year and total monetary value were used to calculate the stated target to reduce that cost; and by what date the Government aims to achieve that reduction.

We have estimated the baseline of the administrative burden of regulation on businesses (as at start of April 2025) at £22.4bn a year in 2024 prices. Our target is to reduce this figure by 25%, or £5.6bn, by the end of Parliament. We have adopted a pragmatic and ‘top-down’ approach to estimating the baseline, drawing on a range of existing data sources including previous baselining exercises, DBT’s regular Business Perceptions Survey (BPS), DBT business population estimates and Office for National Statistics data on wages and labour costs.

With reference to page 125 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, whether the £30 million Capital AME bid by the Government Property Agency that recorded a zero outturn was supported by approved business cases for government hub projects.

The GPA requested £30 million of Capital AME in the estimate as cover for potential accounting adjustments around dilapidation provisions in accordance with HM Treasury’s Financial Reporting Manual and Consolidated Budgeting Guidance. This is not directly related to government hub projects or business cases. The cover was based on a worst-case scenario that didn't materialise and so was not required.

What the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) ratings are for 10 Downing Street, 11 Downing Street, and Admiralty House; and whether any assessments have been carried out since July 2024 to determine whether tenancies are in buildings with a BREEAM rating of A or above.

The Government Property Agency (GPA) uses BREEAM when retrofitting and building new capital projects as per the government buying standards requirements. Where budget and time allows, GPA aims to deliver to the government buying standards requirements or better. As these buildings are not being developed the BREEAM standard is not relevant. If the buildings were to be retrofitted by the GPA in the future, BREEAM would be applied as per the government buying standards requirements. In regards to existing commercial spaces, the GPA will deliver to the MEES (Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, regulations) and produce Display Energy Certificates (DECs) and/or Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) where commercially relevant.

How compliance with his Department’s Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method tenancy standard will be monitored and enforced.

The Government Property Agency (GPA) uses BREEAM when retrofitting and building new capital projects as per the government buying standards requirements.This system is administered through a third-party certification process managed by licensed assessors and enforced primarily by contractual agreements and planning policies.

With reference to the guidance entitled the approvals process for the creation of new arm's-length bodies, published on 15 March 2018, whether the Cabinet Office Public Bodies Team assessed the National Centre of Policing against the requirement that the creation of a new arms length body should only be considered as a last resort; whether the Department provided evidence that alternative delivery models were considered; and which of the tests in chapter 2 of that guidance it overcame.

The initial intention to explore a National Centre of Policing was announced by the then Home Secretary at the APCC/NPCC Conference in November 2024, as part of outlining their ambition for police reform. The Home Office will publish a White Paper on Police Reform in due course. If those proposals include establishing a new Arm's Length Body (ALB), then the standard process for establishing an ALB will be followed.

How many investment proposals have been considered by the Cabinet Office Investment Committee since July 2024; how many were approved; how many were rejected or deferred; and what the total whole-life expenditure associated with those approvals was.

Since July 2024, the Investment Committee has considered a total of 39 business cases. All of these business cases were approved, subject to specific conditions. Spending approvals can specify a range of expected expenditure, and may be lower than the overall whole-life cost of the project. The cumulative approximate whole-life cost of these approved cases amounts to a maximum of £26.91 billion. This includes funding for the Infected Blood Compensation Scheme.