Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June to Question 257533, when the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre plans to begin its assessment of 5G equipment.

As detailed in the HCSEC Oversight Board report, the HCSEC work programme is
determined by a risk-based prioritisation scheme and their plan of evaluation is driven by
the commercial rollout of services by the UK operators that use Huawei equipment. The
operators, NCSC and the HCSEC collaboratively prioritise the work of HCSEC. Providing
further details on what equipment has, and has not, been subject to HCSEC evaluation is
commercially sensitive.