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This scope gap is made even more glaring when we look at the omission, broadly, of local government from this Bill. The newly published “Analogue 72” Green Paper from the Cyber Centre of Excellence highlights that across four annual cycles of external passive scans, including their latest July 2026 data, UK local authorities show rising external vulnerabilities. Councils hold the electoral registers, child safeguarding files and social care records of millions of citizens, yet they remain entirely excluded from direct statutory duties under this Bill. The Government expect resilience to be delivered from the bottom up but plan entirely from the top down, leaving local government without statutory baseline funding or standards.