Oral Answers to Questions

Noah Law Excerpts

Monday 6th July 2026 Commons Chamber

[Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Cardiff West) (Lab)]

1. What assessment he has made of the level of threat from Russia.

[Noah Law (St Austell and Newquay) (Lab)]

9. What assessment he has made of the level of threat from Russia.

[Alex Ballinger (Halesowen) (Lab)]

13. What assessment he has made of the level of threat from Russia.

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[Dan Jarvis]

I was proud to lead the DDTF as Security Minister, and as Defence Secretary I am focused on ensuring that we defend our nation against the threats that we face. The UK is under daily attack from adversaries who seek to harm our society and our prosperity, including through cyber-attacks. My Department is investing £2.5 billion in cyber and intelligence, and we are working across Government, industry and society, and with our allies, to defend against and deter attacks across every domain.

[Noah Law]

As we have heard, we are in a new era of modern warfare, in which cheap drones, costing thousands of pounds, can knock out systems costing millions. The defence investment plan reflects that new reality, and I welcome the £5 billion set aside for drones, but what steps is the Minister taking to invest in the fightback against Russian aggression in the information warfare space?

[Dan Jarvis]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise the hybrid nature of the threats that we face from Russia. Information operations seek to unpick the threads of our resilient democratic society, and we will defend against these threats. I have the privilege of working with military and civilian specialists in the Ministry of Defence, and I can assure him that I will always give our specialists what they need to detect, expose and respond to the full range of hybrid threats that Russia poses.