Member

We have mission-critical cost-benefit questions. How much will we invest to protect our economy, infrastructure and defences, both public and private? Put another way, how much are we prepared to lose by patching together a fragmented approach to cyber security, which, I am afraid to say, this Bill is guilty of? That is the question we need to ask ourselves. It is not just the level of funding but how the resources should be structured. Is this the time for a fragmented, multi-sector, multi-regulator approach or do we grasp the nettle and set up a single centralised body that has the teeth, power, funding, expertise and know-how to face up to these existential threats?