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National Security: Risk Assessment

Asked by Jim ShannonDemocratic Unionist PartyCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 22 October 2024UIN 8446

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the Government's national security risk assessment policies, in the context of the recent CrowdStrike software outages.

Answered by Ms Abena Oppong-Asare

The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. All risks in the government's National Risk Register (NRR) are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity.

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