Question follow-through · 49064
Cybersecurity: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether Northern Ireland will receive funding from Cyber Local in 2025-26.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 15 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
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether Northern Ireland will receive funding from Cyber Local in 2025-26.
1 May 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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