Written Question·Home Office·UIN 30978

Intelligence Services: Finance

Tabled: 12 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025

Question

Mark Pritchard

ConservativeThe Wrekin

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for the security service in the context of existing and emerging state and non-state threats to the UK’s national security.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
Keeping the country safe is the first duty of government. MI5 has a key role to play alongside SIS, GCHQ and the rest of the UK’s national security and law enforcement community in achieving that.The Chancellor confirmed in the Autumn Budget on 13 October...

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