Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what plans she has to help small and medium-sized enterprises to improve cyber security training and competency.

We are committed to making the UK the safest place in the world to live and do business online. This includes ensuring all UK organisations - including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - are resilient to cyber threats. A number of Government online cyber security training packages are available free of charge, including one specifically for SMEs. In addition, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) launched a new Cyber Security Small Business Guide in October 2017, which provides quick, easy and low-cost cyber security advice to small businesses. A series of short videos, based on the guide, will be released shortly and further campaigns will follow next year. Cyber Essentials, the Government-backed certification scheme, has also refreshed its website to make it more accessible to SMEs.