National Security Communications Team

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The National Security Communications Team was created in April 2018 in the Cabinet Office. 'Policy responsibility' for the team moved from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the 2019/20 year.[1]

People

Staffing

According to David Lidington MP, as of July 2018, the NSCT consisted of 7 civil servants as well as 3 civil servants who had joined on a temporary basis.[2]

Staff

  • Victoria Woodbine – Head of National Security Communications (Jun 2017 - Present (Jan 2023))[3] [4]
  • Mikey Hoare Director of National Security communications (Aug 2020 - present (Jan 2023))[5]

Former staff

  • Andy Burwell - Head of Stakeholder Engagement at National Security Communications Team (Mar 2019 - Apr 2020).[6][7]
  • Darragh McElroy - Deputy Director of National Security Communications[8] (Feb 2019 - Aug 2020)[9]
  • Daniel Walpole – Former Head of National Security Communications at Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office Communications (2018–2019), then Head Of Communications at Counter Terrorism Policing [10]
  • Cormac Smith – Deputy Head of Communications/Head of Planning NSCT (April 18 – Nov 18). Previously embedded in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (Oct 2016 - Mar 2018).[11]

Resources

See also

Notes

  1. CSSF Annual Review - Summary Sheet: PROGRAMME TITLE: National Security Communications Team
  2. National Security Communications Unit: Staff:Written question – 157647 Asked by Jon Trickett, answered by David Lidington, HC Deb, 3 July 2018, cW, archived at: https://archive.vn/7LC0d
  3. Victoria Woodbine, LinkedIn Profile (6 June 2020) archived at: https://archive.vn/E87Qq
  4. https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-woodbine-b5319753/?originalSubdomain=uk
  5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikey-hoare-71710562/?originalSubdomain=uk
  6. Andy Burwell, LinkedIn Profile (6 June 2020) archived at: https://archive.vn/a88Et
  7. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-burwell-a924b743/?originalSubdomain=uk
  8. Darragh McElroy, '10 years of the National Security Council', Civil Service Quarterly Blog (Feb 2020).
  9. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darragh-mcelroy-82b887113/?originalSubdomain=uk
  10. Daniel Walpole, LinkedIn Profile (7 June 2020) archived at: https://archive.vn/6lgZT
  11. https://archive.vn/7e7IW