Question follow-through · 10460
NHS: Cybersecurity
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve the cyber resilience of NHS suppliers following the 2024 ransomware attack on NHS testing provider Synnovis.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve the cyber resilience of NHS suppliers following the 2024 ransomware attack on NHS testing provider Synnovis.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2026
Answer published
Supply chain cyber security is a system-wide operational resilience and patient safety issue, with disruption from a single supplier capable of impacting care delivery at scale.The health and care system operates within a highly complex and fragmented sup...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of replacement batteries for defibrillators.
Transplant Surgery: Waiting Lists
14 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the transplant waiting list in (a) Bedfordshire (b) Cambridgeshire and (c) Hertfordshire in (i) 2023/24, (ii) 2024/25 and (iii) 2025/26.