Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many bilateral meetings the Prime Minister has held with foreign leaders in each year since 2015.
Answered by Alex Burghart - Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer of 15 November 2021, Official Report, PQ 66179.
Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to collate current incident reports and threat information to help create a nationwide measurement of cyber threats.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issues strategic warnings, regular advisories and guidance to individuals, organisations and government. This includes a weekly threat report which is drawn from open source reporting and the NCSC Annual Review which includes details of the cyber threat to the UK and the NCSC’s actions to respond to and deter these threats.
As it responds to nationally significant cyber incidents, the NCSC constantly tracks the evolution in cyber threats and uses the most appropriate mechanism to share updates with stakeholders across the UK. It may be through:
updates on its website, as it did recently in response to the situation in Ukraine;
via published advisories, including in concert with its international partners, such as the recent alert on Russian and criminal threats to critical national infrastructure;
through the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CiSP); or
tailored briefings to key sectors where required.
This is part of a broader approach to Cyber resilience, as set out in the National Cyber Strategy, launched in December 2021, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (HCWS484). The Strategy sets out how we will ensure the UK continues to be a leading, responsible and democratic cyber power and able to protect and promote our interests in the rapidly evolving online world. This includes our approach to making the UK more resilient to cyber attacks and countering cyber threats. The strategy is available at the following link:
Asked by: Chris Elmore (Labour - Bridgend)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, when his Department intends to open the National Cyber Innovation Centre.
Answered by Michael Ellis
The National Cyber Innovation Centre is a commitment in the 2022 National Cyber Strategy which said: “We will transform the Cheltenham Innovation Centre, which includes the cyber accelerator ‘NCSC for Startups’, into a true international centre of innovation: the National Cyber Innovation Centre”. It is part of the "Golden Valley" development which is led by Cheltenham Borough Council, with support from the government and GCHQ/National Cyber Security Centre.
Funding for Golden Valley has been secured from the Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (£22 million) and Cheltenham Borough Council. They announced their preferred development partners, Henry Boot PLC and Factory, last summer. Based on the developers’ plans, the Centre is set to open in 2025/26, subject to planning permission.