Question follow-through · 85082
Wales Office: Internet
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Wales Office
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that critical services continue to run in the event of a major internet outage.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides IT services, including cyber security to my Department. The government has a robust set of policies in place to ensure there are well-defined and tested incident management processes in place, and to ensure continuit...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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