Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

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

The Department for Work and Pensions has a dedicated Chief Risk Office (CRO) who is accountable for risk management across the Department. This includes responsibility for assuring effective identification, management and reporting of key risks including those of national security. Specific risks are owned by accountable specialists which in this instance would be a combination of the Chief Security Officer, the Director for Resilience or the Digital Director who leads on security, depending on the specific national security issue. The CRO constantly keeps the National Security Risk Assessment (NSRA) under review.