Energy Grid Resilience Debate
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Lord Harries of Pentregarth
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Energy Grid Resilience
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Lord Harries of Pentregarth (CB)
I return to a question that was at least implicit in the question from the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton, on the national grid and possible cyberattacks. We are all aware that there has been a massive cyberattack on Marks & Spencer and one on Co-op Group. No organisation, however large, is immune from the possibility of attack and obviously the national grid is particularly vulnerable. Is there anything the Minister can do to reassure the public and give them confidence that every possible step has been taken to avoid this?
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)
My Lords, as I think I have already said, the security of our energy system is clearly critical. I take the point the noble and right reverend Lord raised about cybersecurity. Noble Lords will have seen the devastating impact that this has had on retailers in the last few weeks. We work with the National Cyber Security Centre. We are very exercised about this. I can assure the noble and right reverend Lord that we are not at all complacent.