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Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 21 May 2025

Debate

Improving Cyber Resilience

Contribution

My Lords, the Minister will be aware of the NAO report in January on government systems, which says that “departments have significant gaps in their system controls that are fundamental to their cyber resilience. The resilience of the hundreds of ageing legacy IT systems that departments still use is likely to be worse”. Accepting that the Government have inherited a legacy of years of underinvestment in Whitehall IT, and that the cost of successful cyberattacks is very high, does it not make sense to raise the level of investment in replacing some of these legacy systems as rapidly as possible?

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