Reserve Forces: Cybersecurity

(asked on 24th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, in each of the last three years for which figures are available, how many members of the UK’s Active Reserve forces were qualified at the level of (i) UK Cyber Security Council Principal Cyber Security Professional, and (ii) UK Cyber Security Council Chartered Cyber Security Professional, or equivalent.


Answered by
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Al Carns
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence) (Minister for Veterans)
This question was answered on 10th March 2026

The accreditations in question, whilst aligned to the Defence cyber skillsets, are not formal Ministry of Defence qualifications. The information is not therefore held centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

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