Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the National Protective Security Authority is taking steps to provide guidance to (a) businesses and (b) universities on dealing with BGI Group.

The National Protective Security Authority, with the National Cyber Security Centre, have developed the Trusted Research campaign to help academia make the most of international collaborations, by informing them of the threat and helping them to make sensible decisions about research and research partners.

More recently they also developed the Secure Innovation campaign which is focused on helping new start-ups in the emerging and critical technology sectors to better protect themselves and, think carefully about their partners and investment.

We will continue to work with NPSA to support industry and academia.