Question follow-through · 47535
Cybersecurity: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending Cyber Local 2025-26 to Northern Ireland.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending Cyber Local 2025-26 to Northern Ireland.
29 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
As of April 2025, the way that Devolved Administrations (DAs) receive funding for cyber security has changed. Previously ringfenced cyber budgets will be absorbed into departmental baselines and provided directly to DAs in their overall HM Treasury settle...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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