Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-02-10.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what programmes his Department is developing relating to cyber defence.

Penny Mordaunt

The Defence Cyber Programme delivers cyber defence activities for Defence as a whole. It incorporates the following strands:

Defensive cyber;

People and training;

Information and intelligence;

Strategic direction;

Offensive cyber.

Further to this, each single Service has their own cyber transformation programme within which they are undertaking projects to understand and meet defensive cyber requirements specific to each Service.