Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department monitors the number of organisations that are (a) contacted by and (b) receive direct advice from the National Cyber Security Centre.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is the UK’s technical authority on cyber security. It is committed to providing expert, trusted, and independent guidance for citizens and public and private sector organisations. The NCSC does this in a number of ways, including by publishing guidance, providing tailored sector outreach and engagement, hosting cyber security events and information exchanges and responding to incidents. Given the variety of methods and the freely available nature of this guidance, the number of organisations that are contacted by and receiving advice from the NCSC is not centrally measured.