Question follow-through · 83245
Ministry of Justice: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures his Department has in place to continue to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Justice
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what measures his Department has in place to continue to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes, and to ensure continuity of essential functions in the event of system or service failure. The Department for Science, Innovati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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