To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress his Department has made on its work on a cyber-security model to be implemented in its contracts.

The Ministry of Defence already includes information security clauses in its contracts; these are being augmented by the development of the cyber security model. Its first output - a set of cyber profiles which detail the measures suppliers will be required to comply with - is expected to be published by the end of March 2015. It is anticipated that implementation in contracts will begin in autumn 2015.