Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:00 am on 24 February 2026.
“(1) The Secretary of State must, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, publish and lay before Parliament—
(a) a review of the impact, on relevant bodies, of—
(i) the requirements relating to the notification of incidents in Parts 3 and 4 of the NIS Regulations (as amended by this Act); and
(ii) any additional incident notification requirements made by regulations under this Act; and
(b) proposals for the creation of a single cyber incident reporting channel for relevant bodies.
(2) A review under this section must consider –
(a) the costs of requirements on relevant bodies; and
(b) interactions with other incident reporting regimes.
(3) In this section, “relevant bodies” means operators of essential services, critical suppliers or digital service providers, as defined by the NIS Regulations.”—
This new clause would require the Secretary of State to review the impact of incident reporting requirements on relevant bodies, and to set out proposals for a single incident reporting channel.
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Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill — New Clause 7 - Impact of reporting requirements on relevant bodies
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Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
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