Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they regard cyber warfare as a Tier One threat to national security; whether they are considering the creation of a new international Bletchley Park to counter that threat; and whether they are providing resources to develop machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence to counter that threat.

The 2015 National Security Strategy identifies cyber security as a tier one threat to the UK’s national security. To counter this threat the Government published the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment. As part of the implementation of the strategy, a new National Cyber Security Centre was launched in 2016 to provide a central body for cyber security at a national level. In order to keep our cyber defences effective, the Government provides resources for research and development of technical and other measures, but it would not be appropriate to comment on specific technologies.