Question follow-through · 56285
Chinese Embassy: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Chinese Embassy on cyber security for the BT telephone exchange.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed Chinese Embassy on cyber security for the BT telephone exchange.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jun 2025
Answer published
In line with my previous response to UIN 29609 on 12 February 2025, the planning application has been called in by the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and she will make this quasi-judicial decision independ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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