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Recommendation 12
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We are content that Huawei has been, and continues to be, sufficiently distanced from sensitive...
Recommendation
We are content that Huawei has been, and continues to be, sufficiently distanced from sensitive defence and national security sites. The Defence Secretary has informed us that no Huawei 5G equipment is present on the defence estate and that sensitive communications are safe from compromise. The Government should ensure that Huawei continues to be distanced from sensitive networks until the complete removal of its equipment from 5G by 2027.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Government agrees with the Committee that Huawei should continue to be distanced from sensitive networks. High risk vendors are not—and never will be—in our most sensitive networks. The decision was made in January 2020 that high risk vendors, including Huawei, should be excluded from the core parts of the network that are critical to security and excluded from sensitive sites. The Telecommunications (Security) Bill that is currently in Parliament will provide the government with new national security powers to impose controls on the use of high-risk vendors.