Preparedness to Respond to Potential Terrorist Attacks

Part of 3. Questions to the Assembly Commission – in the Senedd at 3:21 pm on 10 October 2018.

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Photo of Suzy Davies Suzy Davies Conservative 3:21, 10 October 2018

Thank you for that question. It's a serious question and, as you may notice from budgets in the most recent years, the Commission has already made a significant investment in protective security across the estate but also in Members' offices, which is regularly reviewed, considering the UK threat level from international terrorism. And, as well as providing appropriate security advice and comprehensive safety awareness training to Members and Commission staff, we have increased levels of protection against cyber attack, which, of course, is invisible—we don't get to see that in the same way that we do our security presence, which has also increased—and we work with a number of agencies to develop and deliver a package that's pretty robust.