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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, when his Department plans to publish a Cyber Security Skills Strategy.

We will publish our Cyber Security Skills Strategy in 2018.

The strategy will set out how the Government will ensure the UK has the sustained supply of cyber security talent it needs. This builds on the work we are already delivering including developing an overarching cyber security professional body, the recently announced Cyber Security Immediate Impact Fund pilot aimed at increasing the volume and diversity of adults joining the UK cyber security profession, our Cyber Discovery programme for talented 14-18yr olds and support for future cyber security talent currently going through higher or further education.