{"value":{"id":486056,"memberId":4070,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General","uin":"HCWS653","dateMade":"2016-03-24T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","title":"Intention to transfer CERT-UK to the new National Cyber Security Centre ","text":"<p>In the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review the Government confirmed that we would invest £1.9 billion over the next five years in protecting the UK from cyber attack and developing our sovereign capabilities in cyber space, including by creating a national cyber centre.</p><p> </p><p>The new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) will open in October 2016. As part of GCHQ, the NCSC will bring together a number of cyber security functions from across government. It is intended that the current functions of CERT-UK, currently part of the Cabinet Office, will move into the NCSC. Detailed design work is underway on implementing the NCSC, and I will update the House further in due course.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":3,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":486059,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2016-03-24T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/486056","method":"GET"}]}