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Written Question
Government Departments: Dahua Technology and Hikvision
Monday 4th July 2022

Asked by: Lord Strathcarron (Conservative - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which government departments have banned the use of (1) Hikvision, and (2) Dahua Technology, surveillance equipment from their offices; and what plans they have for that equipment to be banned in all other government departments.

Answered by Lord True - Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal

As has been the case under successive administrations, it is not government policy to comment on the security arrangements of government departments. Specific details regarding the security systems used by departments are withheld on national security grounds.