Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to support cross‑government responses to hybrid activities from Russia.

The Strategic Defence Review highlights the breadth and depth of threats posed by hybrid activity.

Russia remains the most pressing and immediate threat and it seeks to take advantage of the difficulty of attributing hybrid attacks through covert methods and proxies.

Many hybrid threats are not military in nature and therefore a whole-of-Government and whole-of-society approach is essential. The Ministry of Defence works in close collaboration with other Government Departments and with our allies and partners to address shared threats below the threshold of armed conflict.