Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2017 to Question 7507 on cyber skills, with which organisation and representatives her officials have (a) met and (b) sought advice from.

DCMS has ongoing and frequent engagement on cyber skills with a wide range of organisations including cyber security training providers, cyber and non-cyber businesses, academia and professional organisations.

A number of the primary stakeholder groups we regularly engage with on DCMS Cyber Security CNI Apprenticeships scheme and the Cyber Schools Programme can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/cyber-security-cni-apprenticeships and https://hmgcyberschools.com/. In addition we engage with various professional bodies in the cyber security sector, while officials also work closely with government partners, including the National Cyber Security Centre, to utilise their extensive networks across the cyber security sector.