Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 83777

Government Digital Service: Outages

Tabled: 21 October 2025

Answered: 29 October 2025

Question

Dame Chi Onwurah

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the resilience of Government Digital Services to outages.

Answer

Ian Murray

In the 2025 State of Digital Government review, cyber security and digital resilience risks were identified as critically high across the public sector, and we are taking immediate action to make Government services more secure, resilient and reliable.Gov...

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