Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to protect public services against cyber attacks.

The Government takes the threat of cyber attacks against public services very seriously. We support Health and Local Government sectors in improving their cyber resilience and encourage all organisations to implement the National Cyber Security Centre’s advice: to keep software patches up to date, to run antivirus and to back up their data.

In addition to this, the NCSC is developing Active Cyber Defence initiatives which will lead national efforts to block, disrupt and neutralise malicious cyber activity before it reaches our public services.