Question follow-through · 66463
National Security
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Prime Minister on the potential merits of establishing a new homeland security ministerial post.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will hold discussions with the Prime Minister on the potential merits of establishing a new homeland security ministerial post.
11 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2025
Answer published
As Security Minister, I am responsible for matters covering a range of homeland security issues - counter terrorism and extremism; state threats; cyber security and crime; serious and organised crime; oversight of the National Crime Agency; anti-corruptio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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