Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 95524

Cybersecurity: Public Sector

Tabled: 28 November 2025
Answered: 8 December 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

LabourBuckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether her Department has a framework for evaluating cyber-security workforce shortages within the public sector.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
DSIT has a number of different mechanisms for evaluating the public sector’s cyber workforce. DSIT completes an annual Cyber Security Skills in the UK Labour Market Survey, which identifies key challenges facing the public sector’s cyber security workforc...

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