Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government, in the light of reports that the National Cyber Security Centre is evaluating whether the Chinese bus manufacturer Yutong can deactivate buses remotely, (1) what is the timetable for this evaluation, and (2) what assessment they have made of recent security concerns raised by the governments of Norway and Denmark in respect of Chinese-made electric buses.

The Government takes national security extremely seriously and continuously monitors, understands and mitigates potential security threats from a wide range of technologies. My officials are looking into the Norwegian reports and will feed any new information into our continuing work.