Written Question·Cabinet Office·UIN 8446

National Security: Risk Assessment

Tabled: 10 October 2024
Answered: 22 October 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps he is taking to improve the Government's national security risk assessment policies, in the context of the recent CrowdStrike software outages.

Answer

Ms Abena Oppong-Asare
The UK is facing an ever-changing and growing set of risks. All risks in the government's National Risk Register (NRR) are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity.