Question follow-through · 1864
ICT: Outages
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to (a) prepare for and (b) mitigate future global IT outages.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 25 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 1 Aug 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to (a) prepare for and (b) mitigate future global IT outages.
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Aug 2024
Answer published
As we live in a world that is dependent on interconnected systems, it is essential to be prepared for global IT outages. The Government will work with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to review the lessons learned from the recent outage. The Cent...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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