Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether their Department has a Chief Risk Officer for national security risks relating to the work of their Department.

The Government identifies and assesses risks to the nation through the internal, classified National Security Risk Assessment, and the external National Risk Register, the most recent version of which was published in August.

As set out in the UK Government Resilience Framework, each risk in the National Security Risk Assessment is owned and managed within Lead Government Departments.

Where those risks, including national security risks, relate to the work of the Department for Business and Trade (the Department), then they are managed through the department’s risk management processes. The Department has a Chief Risk Officer, (the Chief Operating Officer), who oversees all risks relating to the work of the Department, including national security risks. Within the Department, risk is managed and recorded through risk registers that are regularly reported to the Performance and Risk Committee and the Executive Committee.