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1st Report - Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness
National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
HC 723
Published 19 September 2025
Conclusions (1)
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Conclusion
Acknowledged
The UK’s strategic reliance on subsea cables will likely continue for the foreseeable future. The cable industry provides a commendable and commercially efficient repair service, which ensures good resilience against moderate damage. We do not believe there is an imminent threat to the UK’s national connectivity. (Conclusion, Paragraph 14) Threat …
Government Response Summary
The government agrees on the importance of updated risk scenarios and commits to considering how to best update reasonable worst-case scenarios within national risk assessments to reflect the possibility of coordinated sabotage on subsea and terrestrial internet infrastructure.