Jim Murphy
Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many individuals have been employed within his Department to work on cyber security issues since May 2010.
Andrew Robathan
The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence
holding answer
We regard cyber security as the responsibility of all personnel within the Ministry of Defence, and we are incorporating it into the way we conduct operations and business. Since the Government has set out its cyber security strategy, we have also increased the numbers of specialists in the Department employed on cyber security. This information is being withheld for the purpose of safeguarding national security.
Yes7 people think so
No2 people think not
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