Question follow-through · 83728
Department for Transport: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what measures her Department has in place to run critical services in the event of a major internet outage.
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Department has a range of alternative means of communication, including telephony, and manual processes to facilitate business critical work and maintain operational continuity in the event of loss of internet connection over cellular and/or fixed lin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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