Written Question·Home Office·UIN 30978
Intelligence Services: Finance
Tabled: 12 February 2025
Answered: 26 February 2025
Question
Mark Pritchard
Conservative — The 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 JarvisKeeping 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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