Member

Amendment 165, laid by the noble Lord, Lord Clement-Jones, is on the question of reporting. I share the noble Lord’s views on the vital importance of collating this data to understand the threat landscape in which our essential services operate. Indeed, the NCSC keeps up-to-date statistics on the incidents that it has triaged for this reason. However, I do not agree that we need to mandate further annual reports to publicise this data. Crucially, the NCSC already publishes in its annual report an overview of incidents that it has triaged. This contains up-to-date statistics about the categories of incident that the NCSC has tracked or handled, with further commentary on the type of incident and sectors involved.