Question follow-through · 8446
National Security: Risk Assessment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the Government's national security risk assessment policies, in the context of the recent CrowdStrike software outages.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the Government's national security risk assessment policies, in the context of the recent CrowdStrike software outages.
14 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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22 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. All risks in the government's National Risk Register (NRR) are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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