Question follow-through · 22606
Digital Technology: Infrastructure
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of an IT shutdown initiated by hostile foreign actors on (a) the NHS and (b) other critical digital infrastructure.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make an assessment with Cabinet colleagues of the potential impact of an IT shutdown initiated by hostile foreign actors on (a) the NHS and (b) other critical digital infrastructure.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Cabinet Office works with Departments across Government, and the National Cyber Security Centre, to assess and tackle cross-cutting risks to the UK’s critical infrastructure. The cyber threat is dynamic and grows more complex each year, with implicati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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