Extract from oral answer (Lords) on UK Government Resilience Framework - Sep 4

Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab): On that topic, the Government should be working constantly to improve the UK’s cybersecurity capabilities against Artificial Intelligence and state-linked cyberattacks, in particular. This is one of the reasons, presumably, that the Government have agreed to publish an annual statement on resilience, but given reports at the weekend of a very damaging security breach where Russia-linked hackers targeted the MoD, can the Minister confirm that the forthcoming annual statement will indeed set out the Government’s necessary actions, including skills development, to urgently strengthen our cybersecurity?

The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Baroness Neville-Rolfe) (Con): I have to be careful in commenting on operational matters, and I have already said that the statement is still under consideration, but I very much agree with the noble Baroness’s emphasis on skills and cyber skills. Indeed, I chair a subgroup trying to improve cyber skills across departments in government, because there are a number of professional areas that the tech revolution has highlighted, and cyber is definitely one of them.

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