Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 19
24th Report - Government cyber resilience
Published 9 May 2025
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee Government cyber resilience All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
We asked the Cabinet Office what structures it had in place to share information about cyber security with permanent secretaries and throughout departments.40 The Cabinet Office told us that it had launched the Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) in September 2023, and that this had helped government share information more effectively. The GC3 brings together people from the National Cyber Security Centre, 33 Q 26 34 Q 29 35 Q 31 36 Q 28 37 Q 57 38 Qq 33–34 39 Q 36 40 Q 35 12 the Cabinet Office, and the Government Digital Service.41 The Cabinet Office added that GC3 was in its early stages, but was starting to build communities of cyber practitioners across government.42 41 Q 34; C&AG’s Report, para 2.16 42 Q 35 13 2 Improving Government’s cyber resilience Resilience of the IT estate
From: Public Accounts Committee, 24th Report - Government cyber resilience (HC 643), 9 May 2025
Government response
Latest Treasury Minutes progress report to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty-fourth Report of Session 2024-26
The government responded to the whole report on 4 June 2026.
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty-fourth report from Session 2024-26
Published 18 September 2025.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government "agrees with the Committee's recommendation" in each of the six areas, setting target implementation dates between winter 2025 and autumn 2026.
- On the evolving threat, the government agrees, notes responsibility has moved to DSIT, and says DSIT will publish an implementation plan in winter 2025 and write to the Committee "in one year's time".
- On cyber skills, it "acknowledges the ongoing cyber skills gaps" and says that "Early next year" DSIT will set how many anticipated vacancies its central initiatives will address and how it will assist departments with the remaining gaps.
- On accountability and funding, DSIT will set expectations for departments to appoint a board member with cyber security and digital resilience expertise, and is "working with HMT on mechanisms for protecting budgets" for cyber and legacy remediation programmes.
- On arm's-length bodies and supply chains, it says departments remain "ultimately accountable for the risk" and that DSIT will "assure and enforce" that Accounting Officers are meeting this responsibility.