Question follow-through · 103860
NHS: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the readiness of the NHS to respond to co-ordinated cyber attacks.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the readiness of the NHS to respond to co-ordinated cyber attacks.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
In the past year, we have invested £37.6 million across health and social care, building on the £338 million invested since 2017. Through our ambitious Cyber Improvement Programme, we are tackling the changing cyber risk head-on, expanding protection and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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