Question follow-through · 10151
Local Government: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the financial cost to local authorities of implementing the recommendations contained within her Department's research on cyber threats.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the financial cost to local authorities of implementing the recommendations contained within her Department's research on cyber threats.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2026
Answer published
DSIT has not made a numerical estimate of the total number of local authorities operating with critical cyber vulnerabilities, as the referenced publication was qualitative research to identify the types of cyber vulnerabilities local authorities face whe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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