Written question asked by Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat) on Thursday, 25 June 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 29 June 2009. It was answered by Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour) on Thursday, 2 July 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

Cyber Security: Finance

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the cost of establishing a cyber security operations centre.

Answer: I have been asked to reply.The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) will be established in September 2009 to bring together existing multi-agency efforts to provide situational awareness, analysis and incident response co-ordination in the cyber security field, making sure that new and existing resources are used to best effect in the areas where they are needed the most. The additional resources for the Government's overall cyber security programme will be reported to the House in the autumn.

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