Question follow-through · 18759
Electric Vehicles: National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the national security risks of (a) electric vehicles and (b) connected cars using (i) Chinese and (ii) Russian software.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for his policies of the national security risks of (a) electric vehicles and (b) connected cars using (i) Chinese and (ii) Russian software.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government takes national security extremely seriously. The Department of Transport (DfT) works closely with the transport sector and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and other government departments, including the Department for Science, Inn...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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