Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 17
17
Rejected
Ensure National Cyber Security Centre has capacity to meet growing demands for services
Recommendation
As the prevalence of connected technology grows, so too will the demand for the National Cyber Security Centre’s services. The Government should ensure that the National Cyber Security Centre has the capacity to meet demands for its services. It should explicitly consider and address capacity issues as part of its regular reporting Connected tech: smart or sinister? 69 on cybersecurity skills in the UK. (Paragraph 121) Technology-facilitated abuse
Government Response Summary
The government partially agrees, stating it ensures the NCSC is sustainably funded but rejects explicitly addressing NCSC capacity issues in its regular labour market reporting, instead confirming that NCSC needs are considered within broader workforce capacity assessments.
Government Response
Rejected
HM Government
Rejected
We partially agree with this conclusion. The Government agrees that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) provides vital services to the UK economy and society, demand for which will only grow as digitalisation continues. Furthermore, the NCSC’s establishment simplified the government’s operational structures, transformed the UK’s ability to respond to national-level cyber incidents, and initiated the roll-out of innovative digital services that have helped to make organisations and individuals automatically safer online. As set out in the National Cyber Strategy 2022, the Government is ensuring that the NCSC is fit for the challenges of the next decade by clarifying the enduring capabilities and attributes that underpin its work, funding them on a sustainable basis, and focussing their use where operating experience to date tells us they will have the maximum possible impact at a national scale. The Government is keen to ensure its annual labour market survey does not focus on any one organisation, but gives a broad sense of cyber workforce capacity across the UK. This will inform policy interventions across the wider economy, and this will also take into account the needs of the NCSC. Technology-facilitated abuse