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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 March 2026

Debate

Iranian State-sponsored Cyber Attacks: Mitigation and Preparation

Contribution

My Lords, if we are going to have a whole-society response, we had better make sure that the whole society is informed about the nature of the threat. Nearly a year ago, the strategic defence review talked about the need for “a national conversation led by the Government”— political leadership by the Government—to inform and educate the wider public about the nature of these new cyber and other hybrid threats from a number of different countries: Iran, Russia, China and others. When are the Government going to provide that political leadership through the national conversation which was proposed?

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