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Hecht family

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D-Backup: Created page with " *'''19 June 1921''' - Census data:Isaac (41) and Sarah (40) lived in Hutchesontown with Calman (9), Wolf (8), Frank (6) and Philip (0)<ref> *HECHT CALMAN 1921 M 9 644/15 47/..."

*'''19 June 1921''' - Census data:Isaac (41) and Sarah (40) lived in Hutchesontown with Calman (9), Wolf (8), Frank (6) and Philip (0)<ref>
*HECHT CALMAN 1921 M 9 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark
*HECHT ISAAC 1921 M 41 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark
*HECHT FRANK 1921 M 6 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark
*HECHT PHILIP 1921 M 0 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark
*HECHT WOLF 1921 M 8 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark
*HECHT SARAH 1921 F 40 644/15 47/ 6 Hutchesontown Lanark</ref>

==Notes==

Richard Allan Hecht

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[[File:Screenshot 2025-03-10 at 16.20.29.png |400px|thumb|right|Richard Hecht]]
[[Richard Allan Hecht]] (born 1975 in Eastwood and Mearns) is international spokesperson for the [[Israel Defense Forces]].

His family moved to the occupied Golan Heights in 1983. His parents [[Valerie Hecht]] (nee Barnes) and [[Albert Hecht]] (born 1949 in the Gorbals.<ref>HECHT ALBERT M 1949 644 / 15 / 622 Gorbals</ref>) were married in Eastwood in 1974. Albert was the son of [[Frank Hecht]] and [[Golda Hecht]] (nee Marcowich) who married in Pollok in 1940.<ref>HECHT FRANK MARCOWICH GOLDA 1940 644 / 18 / 456 Pollok</ref>

==Resources==
*https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-scot-heart-israels-bloody-31145780
*https://www.thenational.scot/news/23844401.scotsman-richard-hecht-international-voice-israeli-military/
*https://www.thejc.com/news/the-brit-pack-at-the-heart-of-power-in-israel-lxvmftd0
==See also==
*[[Walter Hecht]] | [[George Hecht]]
*[[Hecht family]]

==Notes==

Richard Allan Hecht

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Richard Allan Hecht

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[[File:Screenshot 2025-03-10 at 16.20.29.png |400px|thumb|right|Richard Hecht]]
[[Richard Allan Hecht]] (born 1975 in Eastwood and Mearns) is international spokesperson for the [[Israel Defense Forces]].

His family moved to the occupied Golan Heights in 1983. His parents [[Valerie Hecht]] (nee Barnes) and [[Albert Hecht]] (born 1949 in the Gorbals.<ref>HECHT ALBERT M 1949 644 / 15 / 622 Gorbals</ref>) were married in Eastwood in 1974. Albert was the son of [[Frank Hecht]] and [[Golda Hecht]] who married in Pollok in 1940.<ref>HECHT FRANK MARCOWICH GOLDA 1940 644 / 18 / 456 Pollok</ref>

==Resources==
*https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-scot-heart-israels-bloody-31145780
*https://www.thenational.scot/news/23844401.scotsman-richard-hecht-international-voice-israeli-military/
*https://www.thejc.com/news/the-brit-pack-at-the-heart-of-power-in-israel-lxvmftd0
==See also==
*[[Walter Hecht]] | [[George Hecht]]

==Notes==

Walter Hecht

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[[Walter Hecht]] (born July 1947) is a Glasgow based Chartered Accountant and Zionist activist.

Hecht married [[Karin Elizabeth Hecht]] (nee Edwards) in 1976 in Eastwood and Mearns, Glasgow. He is the brother of [[George Hecht]] and [[Albert Hecht]] and the uncle of [[Richard Hecht]].

==Affiliations==
*2017-2025: [[Glasgow Friends of Israel]] Treasurer: [[Walter Hecht]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250330165647/https://www.jewishglasgow.org/glasgow-friends-of-israel/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170626041653/http://www.jewishglasgow.org/glasgow-friends-of-israel/</ref>
*2024 - [[Glasgow Israel Committee]], Jewish Community Centre, [[222 Fenwick Road]], Glasgow G46 6UE Tel: 0141 577 8222. '[[Glasgow Israel Committee]] is a non-political Zionist Education Committee which organises the Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration for the entire Community. It also promotes Israel in the Glasgow Jewish Community.' Chairman: [[Angelica Feigin]] email: angelicafeigin@gmail.com. Treasurers: [[Walter Hecht]] and [[Adele Conn]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20241109074930/https://www.jewishglasgow.org/glasgow-zionist-organisation/</ref>
*2021 - [[Glasgow Israel Committee]] Jewish Community Centre, [[222 Fenwick Road]], Glasgow G46 6UE Tel: 0141 577 8222. 'Glasgow Israel Committee is a non-political Zionist Education Committee which organises the Yom Ha’atzmaut Celebration for the entire Community. It also promotes Israel in the Glasgow Jewish Community.' Chairman : [[Shayna Conn]] email: shayna.conn@gmail.com. Treasurers; [[Walter Hecht]] and [[Adele Conn]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20211206002236/https://www.jewishglasgow.org/glasgow-zionist-organisation/</ref>
===Company Roles===
Information listed according to Companies House records.<ref>[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/htLxULEqsygLRuOTjnh8JwdRlxo/appointments Walter Hecht Appointments], Companies House. Retrieved 10 March 2025.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Company name !! Company number !! Company status !! Correspondence address !! Role !! Position !! Appointed on or before !! Resigned on !! Nationality !! Country of residence !! Occupation
|-
| [[Jabbar Mena Fund Management Limited]] || 06539429 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 27 March 2009 || || British || || Accountant
|-
| [[Jabbar Group Limited]] || 05939470 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Director || on 23 May 2008 || || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Tristar Global Health]] || SC342559 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Director || on 8 May 2008 || || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Xpress Travel Solutions Limited]] || SC289428 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 20 September 2007 || || British || || Company Secretary
|-
| [[Armadale Technologies Ltd]] || SC313925 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Director || on 20 April 2007 || || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Armadale Technologies Ltd]] || SC313925 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 20 April 2007 || || British || || Accountant
|-
| [[Global Travel Services Limited]] || SC291228 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 4 October 2005 || || British || ||
|-
| [[Tricast Solutions Limited]] || SC290540 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 20 September 2005 || || British || ||
|-
| [[Capital Developments (Scotland) Limited]] || SC268180 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 2 August 2005 || || British || || Secretary
|-
| [[Oracle Media Limited]] || SC233982 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 1 November 2004 || || British || ||
|-
| [[Insan Limited]] || SC204155 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 1 October 2004 || || British || || Accountant
|-
| [[AQL (Publications) Trust Limited]] || SC194145 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 1 October 2004 || || British || || Accountant
|-
| [[Web Scotland Limited]] || SC186354 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || || Secretary || on 1 October 2004 || || British || || Accountant
|-
| [[Cosgrove Care]] || SC179962 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 1 July 2008 || 1 September 2016 || British || Scotland || Chartered Accountant
|-
| [[Merk Developments (Elderslie) Limited]] || SC242978 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 1 September 2003 || 18 December 2013 || British || Scotland || Senior Partner
|-
| [[Flipware Tech Limited]] || SC314796 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2012 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Intermedical Healthcare Services Limited]] || SC315150 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2012 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Intermedical Technologies Limited]] || SC315149 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2012 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Trans Global Radiology Limited]] || SC343178 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 21 May 2008 || 31 December 2011 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Tricast Solutions Limited]] || SC290540 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 30 April 2011 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Digital Media Cast Limited]] || SC313693 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Public Interest Foundation Limited]] || 06115626 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Universal Content Limited]] || 05833538 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 31 August 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Jabbar Developments (UK) Limited]] || 05976841 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 20 March 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Jabbar Management Limited]] || 05939516 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 23 May 2008 || 20 March 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Jabbar Trading Limited]] || SC291229 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 4 October 2005 || 20 March 2009 || British || ||
|-
| [[Scottish Music Information Centre Limited]] || SC093451 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 11 January 2007 || 10 February 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Scottish Music Centre Limited]] || SC249269 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 11 January 2007 || 10 February 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[European Nutripharm Limited]] || 04635699 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 4 April 2008 || 19 January 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[The Dove Clinic Limited]] || 03927313 || Liquidation || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 4 April 2008 || 19 January 2009 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Bemis (Scotland)]] || SC200547 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 6 June 2006 || 30 April 2007 || British || Scotland || Accountant
|-
| [[Gladedale Timber Systems Limited]] || SC244049 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 1 September 2003 || 3 March 2006 || British || Scotland || Senior Partner
|-
| [[The Legal Defence Union Limited]] || SC106696 || Active || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Secretary || on 27 April 1998 || 20 October 2003 || British || ||
|-
| [[Kidsons Impey]] || 02918925 || Dissolved || Braehead House, 20 Braehead Road, Thorntonhall, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G74 5AQ || Resigned || Director || on 31 December 1998 || 31 March 2002 || British || Scotland || Chartered Accountant
|}

==Family==
*[[George Hecht]] | [[Richard Hecht]]
*[[George Hecht]] marreid [[Angela Hecht]] (nee Sunderland) 1972 Eastwood and Mearns
*[[Albert Hecht]] married [[Valerie Hecht]] (nee Barnes) 1974 Eastwood and Mearns
*[[Jack Hecht]] Married [[Celia Hecht]] (nee Fields) 1974 Eastwood and Mearns

==Notes==

Richard Allan Hecht

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[[File:Screenshot 2025-03-10 at 16.20.29.png |400px|thumb|right|Richard Hecht]]
[[Richard Allan Hecht]] (born 1975 in Eastwood and Mearns) is international spokesperson for the [[Israel Defense Forces]].

His family moved to the occupied Golan Heights in 1983. His parents [[Valerie Hecht]] (nee Barnes) and [[Albert Hecht]] (born 1949 in the Gorbals.<ref>HECHT ALBERT M 1949 644 / 15 / 622 Gorbals</ref>) were married in Eastwood in 1974.

==Resources==
*https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/family-scot-heart-israels-bloody-31145780
*https://www.thenational.scot/news/23844401.scotsman-richard-hecht-international-voice-israeli-military/
*https://www.thejc.com/news/the-brit-pack-at-the-heart-of-power-in-israel-lxvmftd0
==See also==
*[[Walter Hecht]] | [[George Hecht]]

==Notes==

Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Notice System

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[[Image:Committee.jpg|thumb|right|600px|DA-Notice Committee circa 2008.]]

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In the United Kingdom, '''D-Notices''' are a voluntary system of press censorship. The name [[D-Notice]], stands for the note
(meaning '[[Defence Notice]]', then a '[[Defence Advisory Notice]]', or '[[DA-Notice]]' and now a '[[DSMA-Notice]]' or '[[Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice]]'), issued by the [[Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee]] consisting of representatives of the Government and from the media. They are legally 'advisory' notices, and may be ignored. <ref>'History of D-Notice', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417014652/http://www.dnotice.org.uk/system.htm web.archive.org/DA-Notices website], accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

However, as Moyra Grant, author of the book, ''The D Notice'', states, "The guidelines also state pointedly that the D Notice system is a useful reminder of the legal sanctions which may be brought to bear if an editor or producer oversteps the mark. Moreover, pressure to comply can be overwhelming". <ref>Moyra Grant, '[http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html The D-Notice]', Serendipity website, accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

The media, she writes, are afraid to push the line too hard, more severe restrictions might follow and notes "there are currently eight general [kinds of] D Notices (which, incidentally, used to be secret information themselves, but were made public in 1982)":

*Defence plans, operational capability, state of readiness and training
*Defence equipment
*Nuclear weapons and equipment
*Radio and radar transmissions
*Cyphers and communications
*British security and intelligence services
*War precautions and civil defence
*Photography etc. of defence establishments and installations

==History==

The official version of events <ref>'[http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history/index.htm History of the D-Notice System]', dnotice.org.uk, accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> are that the Admiralty and the War Office decided that they needed some means of stopping the press from publishing information which might be of value to a future enemy. After some 'informal discussion with the press', the then Secretary of the Admiralty met in 1912 with representatives of the War Office and various Press Associations to discuss the problem. It was agreed that an organisation should be set up to deal with the matter, on which the Press would be represented. The Press representatives sought, and got, assurance that only matters that really did affect the National interest would be concerned.

The arrangement was that if the Admiralty or the War Office wished to inform the Press of something which should not be published the War Office would get in touch and a meeting of the Committee would be convened and the members would be consulted. The London Editors would be sent the agreed notice. Telegrams for provincial Editors were to be sent to the local Post Master whose duty it would be to hand them personally to the Editor concerned. These telegrams came to be known as "Parkers" after a Mr Parker who was at that time the representative of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association on the Committee.

But before the end of 1912 a letter which was sent to convene the meeting:

:"So far we have considered on the Committee, and are using the organisation of the Committee, for the purpose of the suppression of the publication of news which, until we have given it ourselves to the Press, is not known beyond Whitehall; but there are cases at times of important information supplied from entirely outside sources to the Press which they publish without question, though on the face of it the information is of a Confidential or Secret nature and is such that its publication is clearly against the public interest."

Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the D-Notice system was disbanded and replaced by Press Censorship under the Ministry of Information. During this period Admiral George Thompson was the Chief Press Censor and it was he who at the end of the war took on the duties of Secretary of what was then called the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, the press having insisted that the Government should provide a Secretary and should arrange and pay for the distribution of D-Notices.

The official history of the D-Notice system states:
:During his time as Chief Press Censor, Admiral Thompson had of course become well known to the Press and it is evident from the many letters which were written to him at the end of the war that he had earned their universal respect, and indeed admiration. Under him the system proceeded happily until he retired in the early sixties. In 1967 however the unfortunate MI5 Cable Vetting affair and the intemperate reaction, as he himself subsequently admitted, of the then PM (Mr. Wilson) almost resulted in the system's demise, but it survived and recovered its breath under the wise Secretaryship of Vice Admiral Sir Norman Denning and the guidance of the Committee which had in the meantime been retitled the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. <ref>'History of the D-Notice System', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

In 1971 a major change was made by cancelling all existing D-Notices and replacing them with standing D-Notices to give recipients sufficient guidance on subjects in which considerations of national security could be involved, to enable an editor to decide whether to "publish, spike or seek advice from the Secretary." The Committee's title was changed first to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, and in 1993 to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, when the 6 standing D-Notices were renamed DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices). In May 2000, these were further updated and reduced to the present 5 notices.

==Today==

Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received. Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months. Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’." The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism. Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
==People==
===Committee, March 2026===

{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Director General Security Policy]], [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair (Chair of the Media Side) || [[John Battle]] KC (Hon) || Head of Legal and Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Matthew Collins]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Katharine Costelloe]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Kitty Jenkins]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director Operational Policy || [[Gareth Martin]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Deputy Director National Security || [[Elizabeth Wright]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Executive Director || [[Dawn Alford]] || [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Associate Editor || [[Ian Brunskill]] || [[The Times]] & [[The Sunday Times]]
|-
| Director Policy & Public Affairs || [[Caroline Cummins]] || [[The Publishers Association]]
|-
| Editor || [[Andrew Dagnell]] || [[ITV News]]
|-
| Editor || [[David Dillon]] || [[Mail on Sunday]]
|-
| Freelance || [[Joe Fay]] || Chair and Vice-Chair
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[Janes]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Editor || [[Paul Kunert]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Editor || [[Jack Lefley]] || [[PA Media]]
|-
| Editor || [[Ben Lowry]] || [[Belfast News Letter]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]]
|-
| Director Editorial Content || [[Lisa Mitchell]] || [[BFBS]]
|-
| Legal Director || [[Sayra Tekin]] || [[NMA]]
|-
| Director Newsgathering & Operations || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Policy & Public Affairs Manager || [[Eilidh Wilson]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|-
| Editor || [[Joy Yates]] || [[Newsquest]], North Cumbria
|}

*Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Captain [[Jon Perkins]] RN
*Second Deputy Secretary: Lieutenant Commander [[Stephen Dudley]] RN
*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]

=== 2019 Membership ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Dominic Wilson]] || Director General Security Policy, [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair || [[John Battle]] || Head of Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Vice-Chair || [[Ian Murray]] || Executive Director, [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Director National Security Unit || [[Jonathan Emmett]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Director for National Security || [[Simon Shercliff]] || [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Madeleine Alessandri]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Editorial Director || [[Laura Adams]] || [[Archant]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Head of News || [[Jess Brammar]] || [[Huffington Post]]
|-
| Editor || [[Peter Clifton]] || [[Press Association]]
|-
| Group Editor || [[Joe Fay]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Assistant Editor || [[Charles Garside]] || [[Daily Mail]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[IHS Jane's]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport || [[Michael Jermey]] || [[ITV]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] ([[SNS]])
|-
| Managing Director || [[Owen Meredith]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]] ([[PPA]])
|-
| Chief Executive Officer || [[Charles Redmayne]] || [[Harper Collins UK]] ([[BPA]])
|-
| Managing Editor || [[Craig Tregurtha]] || [[The Times]] and [[The Sunday Times]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Deputy Head of News Gathering || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]] ([[NMA]])
|}

*Secretary: [[Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds OBE]]

*First Deputy Secretary: [[Air Commodore David Adams]]

*Second Deputy Secretary: [[Group Captain John Alexander]]

*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190716051726/https://www.dsma.uk/the-committee/</ref>

===Committee, May 2018===
*Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]
*Vice-Chair, and Chair Media Side, [[Jonathan Grun]] Editor Emeritus [[Press Association]] Nominated By: Press Association

====Government Members====
*[[Dominic Wilson]], Director General Security Policy [[Ministry of Defence]]
*[[Lewis Neal]], Director for National Security [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
*[[Graeme Biggar]], [[Home Office]]
*[[Paddy McGuinness]] : Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]]

====Media Members====
Name: Organisation: Nominated By:
*[[John Battle]] : Head of Compliance Independent Television News : [[ITN]]
*[[Paul Johnson]] : Deputy Editor [[Guardian News and Media]] : [[NPA]]
*[[Joe Fay]] : Group Editor : [[The Register]]
*[[Charles Garside]] Assistant Editor [[Daily Mail]] : [[NPA]]
*[[James Green]] : Director IHS – [[Jane's News & Analysis]] : [[PPA]]
*[[David Higgerson]] : Digital Publishing Director [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] : [[NS]]
*[[Michael Jermey]] : Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport [[ITV]] : [[ITV]]
*[[David Jordan]] : Director of Editorial Policy and Standards [[BBC]] : [[BBC]]
*[[James MacManus]] : Executive Director [[News UK]] : [[NPA]]
*[[John McLellan]] : [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] : [[SNS]]
*[[Charles Redmayne]] : Chief Executive Officer [[Harper Collins UK]] : [[(B)PA]]
*[[Ian Murray]] : Executive Director [[Society of Editors]] : [[SoE]]
*[[Sarah Whitehead]] : Head of Home News & Deputy Head of News Gathering [[Sky News]] : [[BskyB]]
*[[Laura Adams]] : Editorial Director, [[Archant]] : [[NMA]]
*[[Owen Meredith]] : Head of Public Affairs [[PPA]] : [[PPA]]

====Secretary====
* Secretary, Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary, Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary, Group Captain [[John Alexander]]<ref>DSMA [http://www.dsma.uk/committee/index.htm Committee]. Accessed 8 May 2018.</ref>

===Committee, June 2013===
*Chair: [[Jon Thompson]], Permanent Under-Secretary of State, [[Ministry of Defence]].
*Vice-Chair and Chair, Media Side: [[Simon Bucks]], Associate Editor [[Sky News]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Government Members====
*[[Tom McKane]], Director General Security Policy, Ministry of Defence.
*[[Laurie Bristow]], Director for National Security, [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]].
*Vacant, Permanent Under Secretary of State, [[Home Office]].
*[[Oliver Robbins]], Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Media Members====
*[[Peter Barron]], Director, External Relations Europe, Middle East and Africa, [[Google]].
*[[John Battle]], Head of Compliance, [[Independent Television News]].
*[[Jane Crust]], Deputy Managing Editor, [[Financial Times]].
*[[Edmund Curran]], Editor, The [[Belfast Telegraph]].
*[[Charles Garside]], Assistant Editor, The [[Daily Mail]].
*[[James Green]], Director IHS - Jane's News and Analysis.
*[[Jonathan Grun]], Editor, The Press Association
*[[Michael Jermey]], Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV.
*[[David Jordan]], Director Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
*[[Ursula Mackenzie]], Chief Executive Officer & Publisher, Little Brown Book Group.
*[[James MacManus]], Executive Director, [[News International Newspapers]].
*[[Geoff Martin]], Editor, Ham & High.
*[[Barry McIlheney]], Chief Executive, Professional Publishers Association.
*[[Bob Satchwell]], Executive Director, Society of Editors.
*[[Richard Walker]], Editor, Sunday Herald.<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Secretary====
*Secretary: Air Vice-Marshal [[Andrew Vallance]] CB OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]]<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Former Government members====
Previous committee members include: K R Tebbit, Permanent Under Secretary of State, MoD; DB Omand, Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office, RT Jackling, 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MoD, DJ Manning, deputy Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Secretary, Rear Admiral DM Pulvertaft; Deputy Secretary, Commander FN Ponsonby,<ref>Cal McCrystal, 'The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business', [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/1999/no2_mccrystal.htm ''British Journalism Review'' Vol. 10, No. 2], 1999.</ref> Sir [[Ian Andrews]] CBE TD: 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence, Mrs [[Mariot Leslie]] CMG DG: Defence & Intelligence Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Sir [[David Norminton]] KCB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Home Office, Sir [[Richard Mottram]] KCB: Permanent Secretary and Security Intelligence Co-ordinator Cabinet Office, *[[Bill Jeffrey]] CB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence.

====Previous Media Members====
[[Richard Hutchinson]]: Editorial Policy Adviser to Jane's Information Group, [[J D Bishop]]: Editor-in-Chief Illustrated London News Group, H Carnegy: Executive Editor The Financial Times, E Curran:The Belfast Telegraph, R Esser: Executive Managing Editor Daily Mail, J Battle: Head of Compliance Independent Television News, J McLellan: Editor Edinburgh Evening News, S Irwin: Editorial Director Kent Messenger

==Composition==

The Committee is chaired by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. There are four members representing the [[Home Office]], the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[Cabinet Office]].

There are thirteen members nominated by the media; three by the [[Newspaper Publishers Association]], two by the [[Newspaper Society]], two by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]] and one each by the [[Scottish Daily Newspaper Society]], the [[Press Association]], the [[BBC]], [[ITN]], [[ITV]], and [[Sky TV]]. The Publishers Association was invited in 1993 and in 2000 to nominate a representative but declined.

The Press and Broadcasting members respond to proposals from the government departments concerned and advise the Committee on those areas of information in which it may be reasonable to invite guidance reflecting the interests of national security. Official proposals may not be issued in DA-Notice form without the consent of the Press and Broadcasting members.

The DA-Notices are intended to provide to national and provincial newspaper editors, to periodicals editors, to radio and television organisations and to relevant book publishers, general guidance on those areas of national security which the Government considers it has a duty to protect. The Notices, together with a General Introduction, details of the Committee and how to contact the Secretary, are widely distributed to editors, producers and publishers and also to officials in Government departments, military commanders, chief constables and some institutions. The Notices have no legal standing and advice offered within their framework may be accepted or rejected partly or wholly. <ref>'How the System Works', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/the_system.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

==Resources==
===Articles about D notices===
*David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.

*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
*David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
*Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.

===D Notices and official publicity===
*[[D-Notice No. 10]]
*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
*[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
*[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]

==Notes==
<References/>

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Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Notice System

2026-06-28T14:33:46Z

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[[Image:Committee.jpg|thumb|right|600px|DA-Notice Committee circa 2008.]]

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In the United Kingdom, '''D-Notices''' are a voluntary system of press censorship. The name [[D-Notice]], stands for the note
(meaning '[[Defence Notice]]', then a '[[Defence Advisory Notice]]', or '[[DA-Notice]]' and now a '[[DSMA-Notice]]' or '[[Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice]]'), issued by the [[Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee]] consisting of representatives of the Government and from the media. They are legally 'advisory' notices, and may be ignored. <ref>'History of D-Notice', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417014652/http://www.dnotice.org.uk/system.htm web.archive.org/DA-Notices website], accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

However, as Moyra Grant, author of the book, ''The D Notice'', states, "The guidelines also state pointedly that the D Notice system is a useful reminder of the legal sanctions which may be brought to bear if an editor or producer oversteps the mark. Moreover, pressure to comply can be overwhelming". <ref>Moyra Grant, '[http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html The D-Notice]', Serendipity website, accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

The media, she writes, are afraid to push the line too hard, more severe restrictions might follow and notes "there are currently eight general [kinds of] D Notices (which, incidentally, used to be secret information themselves, but were made public in 1982)":

*Defence plans, operational capability, state of readiness and training
*Defence equipment
*Nuclear weapons and equipment
*Radio and radar transmissions
*Cyphers and communications
*British security and intelligence services
*War precautions and civil defence
*Photography etc. of defence establishments and installations

==History==

The official version of events <ref>'[http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history/index.htm History of the D-Notice System]', dnotice.org.uk, accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> are that the Admiralty and the War Office decided that they needed some means of stopping the press from publishing information which might be of value to a future enemy. After some 'informal discussion with the press', the then Secretary of the Admiralty met in 1912 with representatives of the War Office and various Press Associations to discuss the problem. It was agreed that an organisation should be set up to deal with the matter, on which the Press would be represented. The Press representatives sought, and got, assurance that only matters that really did affect the National interest would be concerned.

The arrangement was that if the Admiralty or the War Office wished to inform the Press of something which should not be published the War Office would get in touch and a meeting of the Committee would be convened and the members would be consulted. The London Editors would be sent the agreed notice. Telegrams for provincial Editors were to be sent to the local Post Master whose duty it would be to hand them personally to the Editor concerned. These telegrams came to be known as "Parkers" after a Mr Parker who was at that time the representative of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association on the Committee.

But before the end of 1912 a letter which was sent to convene the meeting:

:"So far we have considered on the Committee, and are using the organisation of the Committee, for the purpose of the suppression of the publication of news which, until we have given it ourselves to the Press, is not known beyond Whitehall; but there are cases at times of important information supplied from entirely outside sources to the Press which they publish without question, though on the face of it the information is of a Confidential or Secret nature and is such that its publication is clearly against the public interest."

Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the D-Notice system was disbanded and replaced by Press Censorship under the Ministry of Information. During this period Admiral George Thompson was the Chief Press Censor and it was he who at the end of the war took on the duties of Secretary of what was then called the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, the press having insisted that the Government should provide a Secretary and should arrange and pay for the distribution of D-Notices.

The official history of the D-Notice system states:
:During his time as Chief Press Censor, Admiral Thompson had of course become well known to the Press and it is evident from the many letters which were written to him at the end of the war that he had earned their universal respect, and indeed admiration. Under him the system proceeded happily until he retired in the early sixties. In 1967 however the unfortunate MI5 Cable Vetting affair and the intemperate reaction, as he himself subsequently admitted, of the then PM (Mr. Wilson) almost resulted in the system's demise, but it survived and recovered its breath under the wise Secretaryship of Vice Admiral Sir Norman Denning and the guidance of the Committee which had in the meantime been retitled the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. <ref>'History of the D-Notice System', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

In 1971 a major change was made by cancelling all existing D-Notices and replacing them with standing D-Notices to give recipients sufficient guidance on subjects in which considerations of national security could be involved, to enable an editor to decide whether to "publish, spike or seek advice from the Secretary." The Committee's title was changed first to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, and in 1993 to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, when the 6 standing D-Notices were renamed DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices). In May 2000, these were further updated and reduced to the present 5 notices.

==Today==

Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received. Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months. Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’." The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism. Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
==People==
===Committee, March 2026===

{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Director General Security Policy]], [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair (Chair of the Media Side) || [[John Battle]] KC (Hon) || Head of Legal and Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Matthew Collins]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Katharine Costelloe]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Kitty Jenkins]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director Operational Policy || [[Gareth Martin]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Deputy Director National Security || [[Elizabeth Wright]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Executive Director || [[Dawn Alford]] || [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Associate Editor || [[Ian Brunskill]] || [[The Times]] & [[The Sunday Times]]
|-
| Director Policy & Public Affairs || [[Caroline Cummins]] || [[The Publishers Association]]
|-
| Editor || [[Andrew Dagnell]] || [[ITV News]]
|-
| Editor || [[David Dillon]] || [[Mail on Sunday]]
|-
| Freelance || [[Joe Fay]] || Chair and Vice-Chair
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[Janes]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Editor || [[Paul Kunert]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Editor || [[Jack Lefley]] || [[PA Media]]
|-
| Editor || [[Ben Lowry]] || [[Belfast News Letter]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]]
|-
| Director Editorial Content || [[Lisa Mitchell]] || [[BFBS]]
|-
| Legal Director || [[Sayra Tekin]] || [[NMA]]
|-
| Director Newsgathering & Operations || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Policy & Public Affairs Manager || [[Eilidh Wilson]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|-
| Editor || [[Joy Yates]] || [[Newsquest]], North Cumbria
|}

*Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Captain [[Jon Perkins]] RN
*Second Deputy Secretary: Lieutenant Commander [[Stephen Dudley]] RN
*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]

== 2019 Membership ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Dominic Wilson]] || Director General Security Policy, [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair || [[John Battle]] || Head of Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Vice-Chair || [[Ian Murray]] || Executive Director, [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Director National Security Unit || [[Jonathan Emmett]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Director for National Security || [[Simon Shercliff]] || [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Madeleine Alessandri]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Editorial Director || [[Laura Adams]] || [[Archant]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Head of News || [[Jess Brammar]] || [[Huffington Post]]
|-
| Editor || [[Peter Clifton]] || [[Press Association]]
|-
| Group Editor || [[Joe Fay]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Assistant Editor || [[Charles Garside]] || [[Daily Mail]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[IHS Jane's]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport || [[Michael Jermey]] || [[ITV]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] ([[SNS]])
|-
| Managing Director || [[Owen Meredith]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]] ([[PPA]])
|-
| Chief Executive Officer || [[Charles Redmayne]] || [[Harper Collins UK]] ([[BPA]])
|-
| Managing Editor || [[Craig Tregurtha]] || [[The Times]] and [[The Sunday Times]] ([[NMA]])
|-
| Deputy Head of News Gathering || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]] ([[NMA]])
|}

*Secretary: [[Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds OBE]]

*First Deputy Secretary: [[Air Commodore David Adams]]

*Second Deputy Secretary: [[Group Captain John Alexander]]

*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190716051726/https://www.dsma.uk/the-committee/</ref>

===Committee, May 2018===
*Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]
*Vice-Chair, and Chair Media Side, [[Jonathan Grun]] Editor Emeritus [[Press Association]] Nominated By: Press Association

====Government Members====
*[[Dominic Wilson]], Director General Security Policy [[Ministry of Defence]]
*[[Lewis Neal]], Director for National Security [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
*[[Graeme Biggar]], [[Home Office]]
*[[Paddy McGuinness]] : Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]]

====Media Members====
Name: Organisation: Nominated By:
*[[John Battle]] : Head of Compliance Independent Television News : [[ITN]]
*[[Paul Johnson]] : Deputy Editor [[Guardian News and Media]] : [[NPA]]
*[[Joe Fay]] : Group Editor : [[The Register]]
*[[Charles Garside]] Assistant Editor [[Daily Mail]] : [[NPA]]
*[[James Green]] : Director IHS – [[Jane's News & Analysis]] : [[PPA]]
*[[David Higgerson]] : Digital Publishing Director [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] : [[NS]]
*[[Michael Jermey]] : Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport [[ITV]] : [[ITV]]
*[[David Jordan]] : Director of Editorial Policy and Standards [[BBC]] : [[BBC]]
*[[James MacManus]] : Executive Director [[News UK]] : [[NPA]]
*[[John McLellan]] : [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] : [[SNS]]
*[[Charles Redmayne]] : Chief Executive Officer [[Harper Collins UK]] : [[(B)PA]]
*[[Ian Murray]] : Executive Director [[Society of Editors]] : [[SoE]]
*[[Sarah Whitehead]] : Head of Home News & Deputy Head of News Gathering [[Sky News]] : [[BskyB]]
*[[Laura Adams]] : Editorial Director, [[Archant]] : [[NMA]]
*[[Owen Meredith]] : Head of Public Affairs [[PPA]] : [[PPA]]

====Secretary====
* Secretary, Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary, Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary, Group Captain [[John Alexander]]<ref>DSMA [http://www.dsma.uk/committee/index.htm Committee]. Accessed 8 May 2018.</ref>

===Committee, June 2013===
*Chair: [[Jon Thompson]], Permanent Under-Secretary of State, [[Ministry of Defence]].
*Vice-Chair and Chair, Media Side: [[Simon Bucks]], Associate Editor [[Sky News]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Government Members====
*[[Tom McKane]], Director General Security Policy, Ministry of Defence.
*[[Laurie Bristow]], Director for National Security, [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]].
*Vacant, Permanent Under Secretary of State, [[Home Office]].
*[[Oliver Robbins]], Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Media Members====
*[[Peter Barron]], Director, External Relations Europe, Middle East and Africa, [[Google]].
*[[John Battle]], Head of Compliance, [[Independent Television News]].
*[[Jane Crust]], Deputy Managing Editor, [[Financial Times]].
*[[Edmund Curran]], Editor, The [[Belfast Telegraph]].
*[[Charles Garside]], Assistant Editor, The [[Daily Mail]].
*[[James Green]], Director IHS - Jane's News and Analysis.
*[[Jonathan Grun]], Editor, The Press Association
*[[Michael Jermey]], Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV.
*[[David Jordan]], Director Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
*[[Ursula Mackenzie]], Chief Executive Officer & Publisher, Little Brown Book Group.
*[[James MacManus]], Executive Director, [[News International Newspapers]].
*[[Geoff Martin]], Editor, Ham & High.
*[[Barry McIlheney]], Chief Executive, Professional Publishers Association.
*[[Bob Satchwell]], Executive Director, Society of Editors.
*[[Richard Walker]], Editor, Sunday Herald.<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Secretary====
*Secretary: Air Vice-Marshal [[Andrew Vallance]] CB OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]]<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Former Government members====
Previous committee members include: K R Tebbit, Permanent Under Secretary of State, MoD; DB Omand, Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office, RT Jackling, 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MoD, DJ Manning, deputy Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Secretary, Rear Admiral DM Pulvertaft; Deputy Secretary, Commander FN Ponsonby,<ref>Cal McCrystal, 'The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business', [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/1999/no2_mccrystal.htm ''British Journalism Review'' Vol. 10, No. 2], 1999.</ref> Sir [[Ian Andrews]] CBE TD: 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence, Mrs [[Mariot Leslie]] CMG DG: Defence & Intelligence Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Sir [[David Norminton]] KCB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Home Office, Sir [[Richard Mottram]] KCB: Permanent Secretary and Security Intelligence Co-ordinator Cabinet Office, *[[Bill Jeffrey]] CB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence.

====Previous Media Members====
[[Richard Hutchinson]]: Editorial Policy Adviser to Jane's Information Group, [[J D Bishop]]: Editor-in-Chief Illustrated London News Group, H Carnegy: Executive Editor The Financial Times, E Curran:The Belfast Telegraph, R Esser: Executive Managing Editor Daily Mail, J Battle: Head of Compliance Independent Television News, J McLellan: Editor Edinburgh Evening News, S Irwin: Editorial Director Kent Messenger

==Composition==

The Committee is chaired by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. There are four members representing the [[Home Office]], the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[Cabinet Office]].

There are thirteen members nominated by the media; three by the [[Newspaper Publishers Association]], two by the [[Newspaper Society]], two by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]] and one each by the [[Scottish Daily Newspaper Society]], the [[Press Association]], the [[BBC]], [[ITN]], [[ITV]], and [[Sky TV]]. The Publishers Association was invited in 1993 and in 2000 to nominate a representative but declined.

The Press and Broadcasting members respond to proposals from the government departments concerned and advise the Committee on those areas of information in which it may be reasonable to invite guidance reflecting the interests of national security. Official proposals may not be issued in DA-Notice form without the consent of the Press and Broadcasting members.

The DA-Notices are intended to provide to national and provincial newspaper editors, to periodicals editors, to radio and television organisations and to relevant book publishers, general guidance on those areas of national security which the Government considers it has a duty to protect. The Notices, together with a General Introduction, details of the Committee and how to contact the Secretary, are widely distributed to editors, producers and publishers and also to officials in Government departments, military commanders, chief constables and some institutions. The Notices have no legal standing and advice offered within their framework may be accepted or rejected partly or wholly. <ref>'How the System Works', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/the_system.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

==Resources==
===Articles about D notices===
*David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.

*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
*David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
*Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.

===D Notices and official publicity===
*[[D-Notice No. 10]]
*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
*[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
*[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]

==Notes==
<References/>

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Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Notice System

2026-06-28T14:32:08Z

D-Backup: /* 2026 Membership */

[[Image:Committee.jpg|thumb|right|600px|DA-Notice Committee circa 2008.]]

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In the United Kingdom, '''D-Notices''' are a voluntary system of press censorship. The name [[D-Notice]], stands for the note
(meaning '[[Defence Notice]]', then a '[[Defence Advisory Notice]]', or '[[DA-Notice]]' and now a '[[DSMA-Notice]]' or '[[Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice]]'), issued by the [[Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee]] consisting of representatives of the Government and from the media. They are legally 'advisory' notices, and may be ignored. <ref>'History of D-Notice', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417014652/http://www.dnotice.org.uk/system.htm web.archive.org/DA-Notices website], accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

However, as Moyra Grant, author of the book, ''The D Notice'', states, "The guidelines also state pointedly that the D Notice system is a useful reminder of the legal sanctions which may be brought to bear if an editor or producer oversteps the mark. Moreover, pressure to comply can be overwhelming". <ref>Moyra Grant, '[http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html The D-Notice]', Serendipity website, accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

The media, she writes, are afraid to push the line too hard, more severe restrictions might follow and notes "there are currently eight general [kinds of] D Notices (which, incidentally, used to be secret information themselves, but were made public in 1982)":

*Defence plans, operational capability, state of readiness and training
*Defence equipment
*Nuclear weapons and equipment
*Radio and radar transmissions
*Cyphers and communications
*British security and intelligence services
*War precautions and civil defence
*Photography etc. of defence establishments and installations

==History==

The official version of events <ref>'[http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history/index.htm History of the D-Notice System]', dnotice.org.uk, accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> are that the Admiralty and the War Office decided that they needed some means of stopping the press from publishing information which might be of value to a future enemy. After some 'informal discussion with the press', the then Secretary of the Admiralty met in 1912 with representatives of the War Office and various Press Associations to discuss the problem. It was agreed that an organisation should be set up to deal with the matter, on which the Press would be represented. The Press representatives sought, and got, assurance that only matters that really did affect the National interest would be concerned.

The arrangement was that if the Admiralty or the War Office wished to inform the Press of something which should not be published the War Office would get in touch and a meeting of the Committee would be convened and the members would be consulted. The London Editors would be sent the agreed notice. Telegrams for provincial Editors were to be sent to the local Post Master whose duty it would be to hand them personally to the Editor concerned. These telegrams came to be known as "Parkers" after a Mr Parker who was at that time the representative of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association on the Committee.

But before the end of 1912 a letter which was sent to convene the meeting:

:"So far we have considered on the Committee, and are using the organisation of the Committee, for the purpose of the suppression of the publication of news which, until we have given it ourselves to the Press, is not known beyond Whitehall; but there are cases at times of important information supplied from entirely outside sources to the Press which they publish without question, though on the face of it the information is of a Confidential or Secret nature and is such that its publication is clearly against the public interest."

Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the D-Notice system was disbanded and replaced by Press Censorship under the Ministry of Information. During this period Admiral George Thompson was the Chief Press Censor and it was he who at the end of the war took on the duties of Secretary of what was then called the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, the press having insisted that the Government should provide a Secretary and should arrange and pay for the distribution of D-Notices.

The official history of the D-Notice system states:
:During his time as Chief Press Censor, Admiral Thompson had of course become well known to the Press and it is evident from the many letters which were written to him at the end of the war that he had earned their universal respect, and indeed admiration. Under him the system proceeded happily until he retired in the early sixties. In 1967 however the unfortunate MI5 Cable Vetting affair and the intemperate reaction, as he himself subsequently admitted, of the then PM (Mr. Wilson) almost resulted in the system's demise, but it survived and recovered its breath under the wise Secretaryship of Vice Admiral Sir Norman Denning and the guidance of the Committee which had in the meantime been retitled the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. <ref>'History of the D-Notice System', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

In 1971 a major change was made by cancelling all existing D-Notices and replacing them with standing D-Notices to give recipients sufficient guidance on subjects in which considerations of national security could be involved, to enable an editor to decide whether to "publish, spike or seek advice from the Secretary." The Committee's title was changed first to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, and in 1993 to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, when the 6 standing D-Notices were renamed DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices). In May 2000, these were further updated and reduced to the present 5 notices.

==Today==

Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received. Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months. Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’." The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism. Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
==People==
===Committee, March 2026===

{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Director General Security Policy]], [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair (Chair of the Media Side) || [[John Battle]] KC (Hon) || Head of Legal and Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Matthew Collins]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Katharine Costelloe]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Kitty Jenkins]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director Operational Policy || [[Gareth Martin]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Deputy Director National Security || [[Elizabeth Wright]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Executive Director || [[Dawn Alford]] || [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Associate Editor || [[Ian Brunskill]] || [[The Times]] & [[The Sunday Times]]
|-
| Director Policy & Public Affairs || [[Caroline Cummins]] || [[The Publishers Association]]
|-
| Editor || [[Andrew Dagnell]] || [[ITV News]]
|-
| Editor || [[David Dillon]] || [[Mail on Sunday]]
|-
| Freelance || [[Joe Fay]] || Chair and Vice-Chair
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[Janes]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Editor || [[Paul Kunert]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Editor || [[Jack Lefley]] || [[PA Media]]
|-
| Editor || [[Ben Lowry]] || [[Belfast News Letter]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]]
|-
| Director Editorial Content || [[Lisa Mitchell]] || [[BFBS]]
|-
| Legal Director || [[Sayra Tekin]] || [[NMA]]
|-
| Director Newsgathering & Operations || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Policy & Public Affairs Manager || [[Eilidh Wilson]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|-
| Editor || [[Joy Yates]] || [[Newsquest]], North Cumbria
|}

*Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Captain [[Jon Perkins]] RN
*Second Deputy Secretary: Lieutenant Commander [[Stephen Dudley]] RN
*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]

===Committee, May 2018===
*Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]
*Vice-Chair, and Chair Media Side, [[Jonathan Grun]] Editor Emeritus [[Press Association]] Nominated By: Press Association

====Government Members====
*[[Dominic Wilson]], Director General Security Policy [[Ministry of Defence]]
*[[Lewis Neal]], Director for National Security [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
*[[Graeme Biggar]], [[Home Office]]
*[[Paddy McGuinness]] : Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]]

====Media Members====
Name: Organisation: Nominated By:
*[[John Battle]] : Head of Compliance Independent Television News : [[ITN]]
*[[Paul Johnson]] : Deputy Editor [[Guardian News and Media]] : [[NPA]]
*[[Joe Fay]] : Group Editor : [[The Register]]
*[[Charles Garside]] Assistant Editor [[Daily Mail]] : [[NPA]]
*[[James Green]] : Director IHS – [[Jane's News & Analysis]] : [[PPA]]
*[[David Higgerson]] : Digital Publishing Director [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] : [[NS]]
*[[Michael Jermey]] : Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport [[ITV]] : [[ITV]]
*[[David Jordan]] : Director of Editorial Policy and Standards [[BBC]] : [[BBC]]
*[[James MacManus]] : Executive Director [[News UK]] : [[NPA]]
*[[John McLellan]] : [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] : [[SNS]]
*[[Charles Redmayne]] : Chief Executive Officer [[Harper Collins UK]] : [[(B)PA]]
*[[Ian Murray]] : Executive Director [[Society of Editors]] : [[SoE]]
*[[Sarah Whitehead]] : Head of Home News & Deputy Head of News Gathering [[Sky News]] : [[BskyB]]
*[[Laura Adams]] : Editorial Director, [[Archant]] : [[NMA]]
*[[Owen Meredith]] : Head of Public Affairs [[PPA]] : [[PPA]]

====Secretary====
* Secretary, Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary, Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary, Group Captain [[John Alexander]]<ref>DSMA [http://www.dsma.uk/committee/index.htm Committee]. Accessed 8 May 2018.</ref>

===Committee, June 2013===
*Chair: [[Jon Thompson]], Permanent Under-Secretary of State, [[Ministry of Defence]].
*Vice-Chair and Chair, Media Side: [[Simon Bucks]], Associate Editor [[Sky News]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Government Members====
*[[Tom McKane]], Director General Security Policy, Ministry of Defence.
*[[Laurie Bristow]], Director for National Security, [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]].
*Vacant, Permanent Under Secretary of State, [[Home Office]].
*[[Oliver Robbins]], Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Media Members====
*[[Peter Barron]], Director, External Relations Europe, Middle East and Africa, [[Google]].
*[[John Battle]], Head of Compliance, [[Independent Television News]].
*[[Jane Crust]], Deputy Managing Editor, [[Financial Times]].
*[[Edmund Curran]], Editor, The [[Belfast Telegraph]].
*[[Charles Garside]], Assistant Editor, The [[Daily Mail]].
*[[James Green]], Director IHS - Jane's News and Analysis.
*[[Jonathan Grun]], Editor, The Press Association
*[[Michael Jermey]], Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV.
*[[David Jordan]], Director Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
*[[Ursula Mackenzie]], Chief Executive Officer & Publisher, Little Brown Book Group.
*[[James MacManus]], Executive Director, [[News International Newspapers]].
*[[Geoff Martin]], Editor, Ham & High.
*[[Barry McIlheney]], Chief Executive, Professional Publishers Association.
*[[Bob Satchwell]], Executive Director, Society of Editors.
*[[Richard Walker]], Editor, Sunday Herald.<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Secretary====
*Secretary: Air Vice-Marshal [[Andrew Vallance]] CB OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]]<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Former Government members====
Previous committee members include: K R Tebbit, Permanent Under Secretary of State, MoD; DB Omand, Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office, RT Jackling, 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MoD, DJ Manning, deputy Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Secretary, Rear Admiral DM Pulvertaft; Deputy Secretary, Commander FN Ponsonby,<ref>Cal McCrystal, 'The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business', [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/1999/no2_mccrystal.htm ''British Journalism Review'' Vol. 10, No. 2], 1999.</ref> Sir [[Ian Andrews]] CBE TD: 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence, Mrs [[Mariot Leslie]] CMG DG: Defence & Intelligence Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Sir [[David Norminton]] KCB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Home Office, Sir [[Richard Mottram]] KCB: Permanent Secretary and Security Intelligence Co-ordinator Cabinet Office, *[[Bill Jeffrey]] CB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence.

====Previous Media Members====
[[Richard Hutchinson]]: Editorial Policy Adviser to Jane's Information Group, [[J D Bishop]]: Editor-in-Chief Illustrated London News Group, H Carnegy: Executive Editor The Financial Times, E Curran:The Belfast Telegraph, R Esser: Executive Managing Editor Daily Mail, J Battle: Head of Compliance Independent Television News, J McLellan: Editor Edinburgh Evening News, S Irwin: Editorial Director Kent Messenger

==Composition==

The Committee is chaired by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. There are four members representing the [[Home Office]], the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[Cabinet Office]].

There are thirteen members nominated by the media; three by the [[Newspaper Publishers Association]], two by the [[Newspaper Society]], two by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]] and one each by the [[Scottish Daily Newspaper Society]], the [[Press Association]], the [[BBC]], [[ITN]], [[ITV]], and [[Sky TV]]. The Publishers Association was invited in 1993 and in 2000 to nominate a representative but declined.

The Press and Broadcasting members respond to proposals from the government departments concerned and advise the Committee on those areas of information in which it may be reasonable to invite guidance reflecting the interests of national security. Official proposals may not be issued in DA-Notice form without the consent of the Press and Broadcasting members.

The DA-Notices are intended to provide to national and provincial newspaper editors, to periodicals editors, to radio and television organisations and to relevant book publishers, general guidance on those areas of national security which the Government considers it has a duty to protect. The Notices, together with a General Introduction, details of the Committee and how to contact the Secretary, are widely distributed to editors, producers and publishers and also to officials in Government departments, military commanders, chief constables and some institutions. The Notices have no legal standing and advice offered within their framework may be accepted or rejected partly or wholly. <ref>'How the System Works', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/the_system.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

==Resources==
===Articles about D notices===
*David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.

*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
*David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
*Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.

===D Notices and official publicity===
*[[D-Notice No. 10]]
*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
*[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
*[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]

==Notes==
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[[Image:Committee.jpg|thumb|right|600px|DA-Notice Committee circa 2008.]]

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In the United Kingdom, '''D-Notices''' are a voluntary system of press censorship. The name [[D-Notice]], stands for the note
(meaning '[[Defence Notice]]', then a '[[Defence Advisory Notice]]', or '[[DA-Notice]]' and now a '[[DSMA-Notice]]' or '[[Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice]]'), issued by the [[Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee]] consisting of representatives of the Government and from the media. They are legally 'advisory' notices, and may be ignored. <ref>'History of D-Notice', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417014652/http://www.dnotice.org.uk/system.htm web.archive.org/DA-Notices website], accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

However, as Moyra Grant, author of the book, ''The D Notice'', states, "The guidelines also state pointedly that the D Notice system is a useful reminder of the legal sanctions which may be brought to bear if an editor or producer oversteps the mark. Moreover, pressure to comply can be overwhelming". <ref>Moyra Grant, '[http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html The D-Notice]', Serendipity website, accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

The media, she writes, are afraid to push the line too hard, more severe restrictions might follow and notes "there are currently eight general [kinds of] D Notices (which, incidentally, used to be secret information themselves, but were made public in 1982)":

*Defence plans, operational capability, state of readiness and training
*Defence equipment
*Nuclear weapons and equipment
*Radio and radar transmissions
*Cyphers and communications
*British security and intelligence services
*War precautions and civil defence
*Photography etc. of defence establishments and installations

==History==

The official version of events <ref>'[http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history/index.htm History of the D-Notice System]', dnotice.org.uk, accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> are that the Admiralty and the War Office decided that they needed some means of stopping the press from publishing information which might be of value to a future enemy. After some 'informal discussion with the press', the then Secretary of the Admiralty met in 1912 with representatives of the War Office and various Press Associations to discuss the problem. It was agreed that an organisation should be set up to deal with the matter, on which the Press would be represented. The Press representatives sought, and got, assurance that only matters that really did affect the National interest would be concerned.

The arrangement was that if the Admiralty or the War Office wished to inform the Press of something which should not be published the War Office would get in touch and a meeting of the Committee would be convened and the members would be consulted. The London Editors would be sent the agreed notice. Telegrams for provincial Editors were to be sent to the local Post Master whose duty it would be to hand them personally to the Editor concerned. These telegrams came to be known as "Parkers" after a Mr Parker who was at that time the representative of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association on the Committee.

But before the end of 1912 a letter which was sent to convene the meeting:

:"So far we have considered on the Committee, and are using the organisation of the Committee, for the purpose of the suppression of the publication of news which, until we have given it ourselves to the Press, is not known beyond Whitehall; but there are cases at times of important information supplied from entirely outside sources to the Press which they publish without question, though on the face of it the information is of a Confidential or Secret nature and is such that its publication is clearly against the public interest."

Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the D-Notice system was disbanded and replaced by Press Censorship under the Ministry of Information. During this period Admiral George Thompson was the Chief Press Censor and it was he who at the end of the war took on the duties of Secretary of what was then called the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, the press having insisted that the Government should provide a Secretary and should arrange and pay for the distribution of D-Notices.

The official history of the D-Notice system states:
:During his time as Chief Press Censor, Admiral Thompson had of course become well known to the Press and it is evident from the many letters which were written to him at the end of the war that he had earned their universal respect, and indeed admiration. Under him the system proceeded happily until he retired in the early sixties. In 1967 however the unfortunate MI5 Cable Vetting affair and the intemperate reaction, as he himself subsequently admitted, of the then PM (Mr. Wilson) almost resulted in the system's demise, but it survived and recovered its breath under the wise Secretaryship of Vice Admiral Sir Norman Denning and the guidance of the Committee which had in the meantime been retitled the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. <ref>'History of the D-Notice System', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

In 1971 a major change was made by cancelling all existing D-Notices and replacing them with standing D-Notices to give recipients sufficient guidance on subjects in which considerations of national security could be involved, to enable an editor to decide whether to "publish, spike or seek advice from the Secretary." The Committee's title was changed first to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, and in 1993 to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, when the 6 standing D-Notices were renamed DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices). In May 2000, these were further updated and reduced to the present 5 notices.

==Today==

Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received. Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months. Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’." The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism. Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
==People==
===Committee, March 2026===
== 2026 Membership ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Director General Security Policy]], [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair (Chair of the Media Side) || [[John Battle]] KC (Hon) || Head of Legal and Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Matthew Collins]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Katharine Costelloe]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Kitty Jenkins]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director Operational Policy || [[Gareth Martin]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Deputy Director National Security || [[Elizabeth Wright]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Executive Director || [[Dawn Alford]] || [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Associate Editor || [[Ian Brunskill]] || [[The Times]] & [[The Sunday Times]]
|-
| Director Policy & Public Affairs || [[Caroline Cummins]] || [[The Publishers Association]]
|-
| Editor || [[Andrew Dagnell]] || [[ITV News]]
|-
| Editor || [[David Dillon]] || [[Mail on Sunday]]
|-
| Freelance || [[Joe Fay]] || Chair and Vice-Chair
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[Janes]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Editor || [[Paul Kunert]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Editor || [[Jack Lefley]] || [[PA Media]]
|-
| Editor || [[Ben Lowry]] || [[Belfast News Letter]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]]
|-
| Director Editorial Content || [[Lisa Mitchell]] || [[BFBS]]
|-
| Legal Director || [[Sayra Tekin]] || [[NMA]]
|-
| Director Newsgathering & Operations || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Policy & Public Affairs Manager || [[Eilidh Wilson]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|-
| Editor || [[Joy Yates]] || [[Newsquest]], North Cumbria
|}

*Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Captain [[Jon Perkins]] RN
*Second Deputy Secretary: Lieutenant Commander [[Stephen Dudley]] RN
*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]

===Committee, May 2018===
*Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]
*Vice-Chair, and Chair Media Side, [[Jonathan Grun]] Editor Emeritus [[Press Association]] Nominated By: Press Association

====Government Members====
*[[Dominic Wilson]], Director General Security Policy [[Ministry of Defence]]
*[[Lewis Neal]], Director for National Security [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
*[[Graeme Biggar]], [[Home Office]]
*[[Paddy McGuinness]] : Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]]

====Media Members====
Name: Organisation: Nominated By:
*[[John Battle]] : Head of Compliance Independent Television News : [[ITN]]
*[[Paul Johnson]] : Deputy Editor [[Guardian News and Media]] : [[NPA]]
*[[Joe Fay]] : Group Editor : [[The Register]]
*[[Charles Garside]] Assistant Editor [[Daily Mail]] : [[NPA]]
*[[James Green]] : Director IHS – [[Jane's News & Analysis]] : [[PPA]]
*[[David Higgerson]] : Digital Publishing Director [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] : [[NS]]
*[[Michael Jermey]] : Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport [[ITV]] : [[ITV]]
*[[David Jordan]] : Director of Editorial Policy and Standards [[BBC]] : [[BBC]]
*[[James MacManus]] : Executive Director [[News UK]] : [[NPA]]
*[[John McLellan]] : [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] : [[SNS]]
*[[Charles Redmayne]] : Chief Executive Officer [[Harper Collins UK]] : [[(B)PA]]
*[[Ian Murray]] : Executive Director [[Society of Editors]] : [[SoE]]
*[[Sarah Whitehead]] : Head of Home News & Deputy Head of News Gathering [[Sky News]] : [[BskyB]]
*[[Laura Adams]] : Editorial Director, [[Archant]] : [[NMA]]
*[[Owen Meredith]] : Head of Public Affairs [[PPA]] : [[PPA]]

====Secretary====
* Secretary, Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary, Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary, Group Captain [[John Alexander]]<ref>DSMA [http://www.dsma.uk/committee/index.htm Committee]. Accessed 8 May 2018.</ref>

===Committee, June 2013===
*Chair: [[Jon Thompson]], Permanent Under-Secretary of State, [[Ministry of Defence]].
*Vice-Chair and Chair, Media Side: [[Simon Bucks]], Associate Editor [[Sky News]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Government Members====
*[[Tom McKane]], Director General Security Policy, Ministry of Defence.
*[[Laurie Bristow]], Director for National Security, [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]].
*Vacant, Permanent Under Secretary of State, [[Home Office]].
*[[Oliver Robbins]], Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Media Members====
*[[Peter Barron]], Director, External Relations Europe, Middle East and Africa, [[Google]].
*[[John Battle]], Head of Compliance, [[Independent Television News]].
*[[Jane Crust]], Deputy Managing Editor, [[Financial Times]].
*[[Edmund Curran]], Editor, The [[Belfast Telegraph]].
*[[Charles Garside]], Assistant Editor, The [[Daily Mail]].
*[[James Green]], Director IHS - Jane's News and Analysis.
*[[Jonathan Grun]], Editor, The Press Association
*[[Michael Jermey]], Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV.
*[[David Jordan]], Director Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
*[[Ursula Mackenzie]], Chief Executive Officer & Publisher, Little Brown Book Group.
*[[James MacManus]], Executive Director, [[News International Newspapers]].
*[[Geoff Martin]], Editor, Ham & High.
*[[Barry McIlheney]], Chief Executive, Professional Publishers Association.
*[[Bob Satchwell]], Executive Director, Society of Editors.
*[[Richard Walker]], Editor, Sunday Herald.<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Secretary====
*Secretary: Air Vice-Marshal [[Andrew Vallance]] CB OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]]<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Former Government members====
Previous committee members include: K R Tebbit, Permanent Under Secretary of State, MoD; DB Omand, Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office, RT Jackling, 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MoD, DJ Manning, deputy Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Secretary, Rear Admiral DM Pulvertaft; Deputy Secretary, Commander FN Ponsonby,<ref>Cal McCrystal, 'The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business', [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/1999/no2_mccrystal.htm ''British Journalism Review'' Vol. 10, No. 2], 1999.</ref> Sir [[Ian Andrews]] CBE TD: 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence, Mrs [[Mariot Leslie]] CMG DG: Defence & Intelligence Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Sir [[David Norminton]] KCB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Home Office, Sir [[Richard Mottram]] KCB: Permanent Secretary and Security Intelligence Co-ordinator Cabinet Office, *[[Bill Jeffrey]] CB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence.

====Previous Media Members====
[[Richard Hutchinson]]: Editorial Policy Adviser to Jane's Information Group, [[J D Bishop]]: Editor-in-Chief Illustrated London News Group, H Carnegy: Executive Editor The Financial Times, E Curran:The Belfast Telegraph, R Esser: Executive Managing Editor Daily Mail, J Battle: Head of Compliance Independent Television News, J McLellan: Editor Edinburgh Evening News, S Irwin: Editorial Director Kent Messenger

==Composition==

The Committee is chaired by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. There are four members representing the [[Home Office]], the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[Cabinet Office]].

There are thirteen members nominated by the media; three by the [[Newspaper Publishers Association]], two by the [[Newspaper Society]], two by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]] and one each by the [[Scottish Daily Newspaper Society]], the [[Press Association]], the [[BBC]], [[ITN]], [[ITV]], and [[Sky TV]]. The Publishers Association was invited in 1993 and in 2000 to nominate a representative but declined.

The Press and Broadcasting members respond to proposals from the government departments concerned and advise the Committee on those areas of information in which it may be reasonable to invite guidance reflecting the interests of national security. Official proposals may not be issued in DA-Notice form without the consent of the Press and Broadcasting members.

The DA-Notices are intended to provide to national and provincial newspaper editors, to periodicals editors, to radio and television organisations and to relevant book publishers, general guidance on those areas of national security which the Government considers it has a duty to protect. The Notices, together with a General Introduction, details of the Committee and how to contact the Secretary, are widely distributed to editors, producers and publishers and also to officials in Government departments, military commanders, chief constables and some institutions. The Notices have no legal standing and advice offered within their framework may be accepted or rejected partly or wholly. <ref>'How the System Works', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/the_system.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

==Resources==
===Articles about D notices===
*David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.

*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
*David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
*Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.

===D Notices and official publicity===
*[[D-Notice No. 10]]
*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
*[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
*[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]

==Notes==
<References/>

[[Category:British Propaganda]]
[[Category:Propaganda]]

Defence and Security Media Advisory (DSMA) Notice System

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In the United Kingdom, '''D-Notices''' are a voluntary system of press censorship. The name [[D-Notice]], stands for the note
(meaning '[[Defence Notice]]', then a '[[Defence Advisory Notice]]', or '[[DA-Notice]]' and now a '[[DSMA-Notice]]' or '[[Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice]]'), issued by the [[Defence Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee]] consisting of representatives of the Government and from the media. They are legally 'advisory' notices, and may be ignored. <ref>'History of D-Notice', [http://web.archive.org/web/20050417014652/http://www.dnotice.org.uk/system.htm web.archive.org/DA-Notices website], accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

However, as Moyra Grant, author of the book, ''The D Notice'', states, "The guidelines also state pointedly that the D Notice system is a useful reminder of the legal sanctions which may be brought to bear if an editor or producer oversteps the mark. Moreover, pressure to comply can be overwhelming". <ref>Moyra Grant, '[http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html The D-Notice]', Serendipity website, accessed 24 April, 2009.</ref>

The media, she writes, are afraid to push the line too hard, more severe restrictions might follow and notes "there are currently eight general [kinds of] D Notices (which, incidentally, used to be secret information themselves, but were made public in 1982)":

*Defence plans, operational capability, state of readiness and training
*Defence equipment
*Nuclear weapons and equipment
*Radio and radar transmissions
*Cyphers and communications
*British security and intelligence services
*War precautions and civil defence
*Photography etc. of defence establishments and installations

==History==

The official version of events <ref>'[http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history/index.htm History of the D-Notice System]', dnotice.org.uk, accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> are that the Admiralty and the War Office decided that they needed some means of stopping the press from publishing information which might be of value to a future enemy. After some 'informal discussion with the press', the then Secretary of the Admiralty met in 1912 with representatives of the War Office and various Press Associations to discuss the problem. It was agreed that an organisation should be set up to deal with the matter, on which the Press would be represented. The Press representatives sought, and got, assurance that only matters that really did affect the National interest would be concerned.

The arrangement was that if the Admiralty or the War Office wished to inform the Press of something which should not be published the War Office would get in touch and a meeting of the Committee would be convened and the members would be consulted. The London Editors would be sent the agreed notice. Telegrams for provincial Editors were to be sent to the local Post Master whose duty it would be to hand them personally to the Editor concerned. These telegrams came to be known as "Parkers" after a Mr Parker who was at that time the representative of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association on the Committee.

But before the end of 1912 a letter which was sent to convene the meeting:

:"So far we have considered on the Committee, and are using the organisation of the Committee, for the purpose of the suppression of the publication of news which, until we have given it ourselves to the Press, is not known beyond Whitehall; but there are cases at times of important information supplied from entirely outside sources to the Press which they publish without question, though on the face of it the information is of a Confidential or Secret nature and is such that its publication is clearly against the public interest."

Before the outbreak of war in 1939, the D-Notice system was disbanded and replaced by Press Censorship under the Ministry of Information. During this period Admiral George Thompson was the Chief Press Censor and it was he who at the end of the war took on the duties of Secretary of what was then called the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry and Press Committee, the press having insisted that the Government should provide a Secretary and should arrange and pay for the distribution of D-Notices.

The official history of the D-Notice system states:
:During his time as Chief Press Censor, Admiral Thompson had of course become well known to the Press and it is evident from the many letters which were written to him at the end of the war that he had earned their universal respect, and indeed admiration. Under him the system proceeded happily until he retired in the early sixties. In 1967 however the unfortunate MI5 Cable Vetting affair and the intemperate reaction, as he himself subsequently admitted, of the then PM (Mr. Wilson) almost resulted in the system's demise, but it survived and recovered its breath under the wise Secretaryship of Vice Admiral Sir Norman Denning and the guidance of the Committee which had in the meantime been retitled the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. <ref>'History of the D-Notice System', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/history.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

In 1971 a major change was made by cancelling all existing D-Notices and replacing them with standing D-Notices to give recipients sufficient guidance on subjects in which considerations of national security could be involved, to enable an editor to decide whether to "publish, spike or seek advice from the Secretary." The Committee's title was changed first to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, and in 1993 to the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, when the 6 standing D-Notices were renamed DA-Notices (Defence Advisory Notices). In May 2000, these were further updated and reduced to the present 5 notices.

==Today==

Records of a Meeting held on 19 June 2007 <ref>'Records of the past DPBAC meetings', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/records.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref> state that "a total of 161 enquiries had been received." On UK Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan "13 requests for DA Notice advice had been received. Most of these had been concerned with equipment." There had been a marked increase in enquiries for advice on publishing aerial and satellite photography during the last 7 months. Some of the requests are rather obscure: "The Secretary reported that he had received several enquiries related to the Baker Street bank robbery of 1971. A film called ‘The Bank Job’, due for release next year, was likely to be followed by one or more documentaries on the robbery, a central theme of which was expected to be a ‘cover-up’ through the alleged issuing of a ‘D-Notice’." The Committee are seeking to promote a better understanding of the DA Notice System: "The main target audiences were the armed forces headquarters, official committees, media management and media schools of journalism. Briefings had been given to a group of London-based International Correspondents, the Media Emergency Forum, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, the BBC New [sic] Editorial Board and University College Falmouth."
==People==
===Committee, March 2026===
== 2026 Membership ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Role !! Name !! Organisation/Affiliation
|-
| Chair || [[Paul Wyatt]] || [[Director General Security Policy]], [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Vice-Chair (Chair of the Media Side) || [[John Battle]] KC (Hon) || Head of Legal and Compliance, [[ITN]]
|-
| Deputy National Security Adviser || [[Matthew Collins]] || [[Cabinet Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Katharine Costelloe]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director National Security || [[Kitty Jenkins]] || [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
|-
| Director Operational Policy || [[Gareth Martin]] || [[Ministry of Defence]]
|-
| Deputy Director National Security || [[Elizabeth Wright]] || [[Home Office]]
|-
| Executive Director || [[Dawn Alford]] || [[Society of Editors]]
|-
| Associate Editor || [[Ian Brunskill]] || [[The Times]] & [[The Sunday Times]]
|-
| Director Policy & Public Affairs || [[Caroline Cummins]] || [[The Publishers Association]]
|-
| Editor || [[Andrew Dagnell]] || [[ITV News]]
|-
| Editor || [[David Dillon]] || [[Mail on Sunday]]
|-
| Freelance || [[Joe Fay]] || Chair and Vice-Chair
|-
| Director || [[James Green]] || [[Janes]]
|-
| Digital Publishing Director || [[David Higgerson]] || [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]]
|-
| Director of Editorial Policy and Standards || [[David Jordan]] || [[BBC]]
|-
| Editor || [[Paul Kunert]] || [[The Register]]
|-
| Editor || [[Jack Lefley]] || [[PA Media]]
|-
| Editor || [[Ben Lowry]] || [[Belfast News Letter]]
|-
| Director || [[John McLellan]] || [[Scottish Newspaper Society]]
|-
| Director Editorial Content || [[Lisa Mitchell]] || [[BFBS]]
|-
| Legal Director || [[Sayra Tekin]] || [[NMA]]
|-
| Director Newsgathering & Operations || [[Sarah Whitehead]] || [[Sky News]]
|-
| Policy & Public Affairs Manager || [[Eilidh Wilson]] || [[Professional Publishers Association]]
|-
| Deputy Editor || [[Robert Winnett]] || [[The Daily Telegraph]]
|-
| Editor || [[Joy Yates]] || [[Newsquest]], North Cumbria
|}

*Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Captain [[Jon Perkins]] RN
*Second Deputy Secretary: Lieutenant Commander [[Stephen Dudley]] RN
*PA to Secretary: [[Geetha Kanagarajah]]

== Notes ==
<references />

===Committee, May 2018===
*Chair [[Peter Watkins]] Director General Strategy and International [[Ministry of Defence]]
*Vice-Chair, and Chair Media Side, [[Jonathan Grun]] Editor Emeritus [[Press Association]] Nominated By: Press Association

====Government Members====
*[[Dominic Wilson]], Director General Security Policy [[Ministry of Defence]]
*[[Lewis Neal]], Director for National Security [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]]
*[[Graeme Biggar]], [[Home Office]]
*[[Paddy McGuinness]] : Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]]

====Media Members====
Name: Organisation: Nominated By:
*[[John Battle]] : Head of Compliance Independent Television News : [[ITN]]
*[[Paul Johnson]] : Deputy Editor [[Guardian News and Media]] : [[NPA]]
*[[Joe Fay]] : Group Editor : [[The Register]]
*[[Charles Garside]] Assistant Editor [[Daily Mail]] : [[NPA]]
*[[James Green]] : Director IHS – [[Jane's News & Analysis]] : [[PPA]]
*[[David Higgerson]] : Digital Publishing Director [[Trinity Mirror Regionals]] : [[NS]]
*[[Michael Jermey]] : Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport [[ITV]] : [[ITV]]
*[[David Jordan]] : Director of Editorial Policy and Standards [[BBC]] : [[BBC]]
*[[James MacManus]] : Executive Director [[News UK]] : [[NPA]]
*[[John McLellan]] : [[Scottish Newspaper Society]] : [[SNS]]
*[[Charles Redmayne]] : Chief Executive Officer [[Harper Collins UK]] : [[(B)PA]]
*[[Ian Murray]] : Executive Director [[Society of Editors]] : [[SoE]]
*[[Sarah Whitehead]] : Head of Home News & Deputy Head of News Gathering [[Sky News]] : [[BskyB]]
*[[Laura Adams]] : Editorial Director, [[Archant]] : [[NMA]]
*[[Owen Meredith]] : Head of Public Affairs [[PPA]] : [[PPA]]

====Secretary====
* Secretary, Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]] OBE
*First Deputy Secretary, Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary, Group Captain [[John Alexander]]<ref>DSMA [http://www.dsma.uk/committee/index.htm Committee]. Accessed 8 May 2018.</ref>

===Committee, June 2013===
*Chair: [[Jon Thompson]], Permanent Under-Secretary of State, [[Ministry of Defence]].
*Vice-Chair and Chair, Media Side: [[Simon Bucks]], Associate Editor [[Sky News]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Government Members====
*[[Tom McKane]], Director General Security Policy, Ministry of Defence.
*[[Laurie Bristow]], Director for National Security, [[Foreign & Commonwealth Office]].
*Vacant, Permanent Under Secretary of State, [[Home Office]].
*[[Oliver Robbins]], Deputy National Security Adviser for Security, Intelligence, and Resilience, [[Cabinet Office]].<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Media Members====
*[[Peter Barron]], Director, External Relations Europe, Middle East and Africa, [[Google]].
*[[John Battle]], Head of Compliance, [[Independent Television News]].
*[[Jane Crust]], Deputy Managing Editor, [[Financial Times]].
*[[Edmund Curran]], Editor, The [[Belfast Telegraph]].
*[[Charles Garside]], Assistant Editor, The [[Daily Mail]].
*[[James Green]], Director IHS - Jane's News and Analysis.
*[[Jonathan Grun]], Editor, The Press Association
*[[Michael Jermey]], Director of News, Current Affairs and Sport, ITV.
*[[David Jordan]], Director Editorial Policy and Standards, BBC
*[[Ursula Mackenzie]], Chief Executive Officer & Publisher, Little Brown Book Group.
*[[James MacManus]], Executive Director, [[News International Newspapers]].
*[[Geoff Martin]], Editor, Ham & High.
*[[Barry McIlheney]], Chief Executive, Professional Publishers Association.
*[[Bob Satchwell]], Executive Director, Society of Editors.
*[[Richard Walker]], Editor, Sunday Herald.<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Secretary====
*Secretary: Air Vice-Marshal [[Andrew Vallance]] CB OBE
*First Deputy Secretary: Air Commodore [[David Adams]]
*Second Deputy Secretary: Brigadier [[Geoffrey Dodds]]<ref name="Googlecache">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.dnotice.org.uk/committee.htm Committee], Dnotice.org.uk, archived by Google, 19 July 2013, accessed 2 August 2013.</ref>

====Former Government members====
Previous committee members include: K R Tebbit, Permanent Under Secretary of State, MoD; DB Omand, Permanent Under Secretary at the Home Office, RT Jackling, 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MoD, DJ Manning, deputy Under Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Secretary, Rear Admiral DM Pulvertaft; Deputy Secretary, Commander FN Ponsonby,<ref>Cal McCrystal, 'The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business', [http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/1999/no2_mccrystal.htm ''British Journalism Review'' Vol. 10, No. 2], 1999.</ref> Sir [[Ian Andrews]] CBE TD: 2nd Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence, Mrs [[Mariot Leslie]] CMG DG: Defence & Intelligence Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Sir [[David Norminton]] KCB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Home Office, Sir [[Richard Mottram]] KCB: Permanent Secretary and Security Intelligence Co-ordinator Cabinet Office, *[[Bill Jeffrey]] CB: Permanent Under Secretary of State Ministry of Defence.

====Previous Media Members====
[[Richard Hutchinson]]: Editorial Policy Adviser to Jane's Information Group, [[J D Bishop]]: Editor-in-Chief Illustrated London News Group, H Carnegy: Executive Editor The Financial Times, E Curran:The Belfast Telegraph, R Esser: Executive Managing Editor Daily Mail, J Battle: Head of Compliance Independent Television News, J McLellan: Editor Edinburgh Evening News, S Irwin: Editorial Director Kent Messenger

==Composition==

The Committee is chaired by the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Defence. There are four members representing the [[Home Office]], the [[Ministry of Defence]], the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and the [[Cabinet Office]].

There are thirteen members nominated by the media; three by the [[Newspaper Publishers Association]], two by the [[Newspaper Society]], two by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]] and one each by the [[Scottish Daily Newspaper Society]], the [[Press Association]], the [[BBC]], [[ITN]], [[ITV]], and [[Sky TV]]. The Publishers Association was invited in 1993 and in 2000 to nominate a representative but declined.

The Press and Broadcasting members respond to proposals from the government departments concerned and advise the Committee on those areas of information in which it may be reasonable to invite guidance reflecting the interests of national security. Official proposals may not be issued in DA-Notice form without the consent of the Press and Broadcasting members.

The DA-Notices are intended to provide to national and provincial newspaper editors, to periodicals editors, to radio and television organisations and to relevant book publishers, general guidance on those areas of national security which the Government considers it has a duty to protect. The Notices, together with a General Introduction, details of the Committee and how to contact the Secretary, are widely distributed to editors, producers and publishers and also to officials in Government departments, military commanders, chief constables and some institutions. The Notices have no legal standing and advice offered within their framework may be accepted or rejected partly or wholly. <ref>'How the System Works', [http://www.dnotice.org.uk/the_system.htm dnotice.org.uk], accessed 15 April, 2009.</ref>

==Resources==
===Articles about D notices===
*David Miller, [https://spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/propaganda/item/5998-two-d-notices-for-skripal-affair Revealed: rebranded D-Notice committee issued two notices over Skripal affair], 'Spinwatch', 8 May 2018.

*Secrecy and the Media The Official History of the United Kingdom's D-Notice System By Nicholas John Wilkinson, ISBN: 978-0-415-45375-2 Routledge Publication Date: 05/26/2009.
*David Miller, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/war-and-foreign-policy/item/4245-fake-journalists Fake journalists], 'Spinwatch', 19 March 2005.
*Angela Millar and David Miller, [http://web.archive.org/web/20070301115913/http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/451/9/ Rose Gentle Censored by MoD], 'Spinwatch', 22 September 2004, archived at the internet Archive.

===D Notices and official publicity===
*[[D-Notice No. 10]]
*[[Nick Wilkinson]] [https://powerbase.info/images/f/fd/Dnotice.pdf Protective Countermeasures in Iraq] D-Notice 3 September 2004. Leaked to Spinwatch 2004. (This is the D-Notice referred to in the article above by Millar and Miller.)
*[[DSMA notice 7 March 2018]]
*[[DSMA notice 14 March 2018]]
*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dnotice.org.uk dnotice.org.uk]

==Notes==
<References/>

[[Category:British Propaganda]]
[[Category:Propaganda]]

Lewis Neal

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'''Lewis Neal''' is a senior British diplomat who has served as Director for National Security at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

== Career ==
Lewis Neal joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1994. He has held a number of senior roles including Director for National Security.

:Lewis Neal was appointed HM Trade Commissioner for China and Hong Kong in September 2023.

:As one of 9 Trade Commissioners appointed by the British government to promote the UK in important global markets and the head of the Department for Business and Trade in China, Lewis is in charge of all bilateral trade issues. He works closely with His Majesty’s Ambassador in Beijing to promote UK trade and prosperity.

:Lewis has held a range of senior roles within government. He was Director of Strategy in the Cabinet Office’s COVID-19 Taskforce in 2021 to 2022. Here he lead work on the government’s ‘Living with COVID-19 Strategy’ and worked closely with the devolved administrations.

:As Director for Economic Diplomacy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Lewis supported the creation of UK’s post-Brexit trading arrangements and championed the UK’s important role in international regulatory standards.

:Lewis was previously National Security Director in the FCO supporting the Foreign Secretary on counter-terrorism, cyber and intelligence policy issues. Lewis has also acted as Staff Counsellor in the FCDO.

:Earlier in his career Lewis had a number of roles in HM Treasury focusing on issues such as public spending, infrastructure and corporate and private finance issues. He has also worked as a Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/people/lewis-neal</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:British diplomats]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]

D-Notice No. 10

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DEFENCE, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITIEE

''''D' NOTICE NO 10'''

'''BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICES'''

This Notice should be read in conjunction with 'D' Notice No I.

2. The broad functions of the Security Service and the Secret Service (often referred to as MI5 and M16) are of course widely known. The Security Service is responsible for countering threats to the Realm arising from espionage, subversion and sabotage and the Secret Service exists to provide HM Government with secret intelligence concerning foreign powers. Both Services must operate as far as possible in conditions of secrecy.

3. Attempts are made by foreign powers to plant stories in the British Press. A variation of this technique, which must be taken into account where the activities of foreign intelligence services are concerned, is the planting in an overseas newspaper or other publication of a piece of information about British Intelligence matters with an eye to stimulating the British Press not only to republish the story but also to expand on it.

4. You are requested not to publish anything about:

a. secret activities of the British intelligence or counter-intelligence services undertaken inside or outside the UK for the purposes of national security;

b. identities, whereabouts and tasks of persons of whatever status or rank who are or have been employed by either Service;

c. addresses and telephone numbers used by either Service;

d. organizational structures, communications networks, numerical strengths, secret methods and training techniques of either Service;

e. details of assistance given by the police forces in Security Service operations;

f. details of the manner in which well-known intelligence methods (eg telephone-tapping) are actually applied or of their targets and purposes where these concern national security. Reference in general terms to well- known intelligence methods is not precluded by this sub-paragraph;

g. technical advances by the British Services in relation to their intelligence and counter-intelligence methods whether the basic methods are well-known or not.

5. You are also requested to use extreme discretion in reporting any apparent disclosures of information published abroad purporting to come from members or former employees of either Service. If you are in any doubt please consult the Secretary.

6. You are also requested not to elaborate on any information which may be published abroad about British intelligence.

7. On all these limitations some relaxation may be possible: please consult the Secretary.

Date of issue 16 August 1971

The D-Notice reproduced above is one of a series issued to all national, regional and local media - newspapers, television and radio. It comes from [[Tony Bunyan]]'s [[The History & practice of the Political Police in Britain]].

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

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{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Unit]] || 2013-present || || MoD/GCHQ || ||
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding, based in [[NSS]] and included Fusion Unit with intel input [[MI5]], [[GCHQ]] || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies:
**[[Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom (2009)]]
**[[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)]]
**[[National Cyber Security Strategy (2016–2021)]]
**[[National Cyber Strategy (2022–Present)]]
(underpins GC3, GovAssure). [[National Cyber Security Programme]].

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Joint Cyber Unit

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{{short description|UK tri-service cyber unit}}

The '''Joint Cyber Unit''' is a tri-service unit of the British Armed Forces responsible for cyber operations and defence.

== History ==
The Joint Cyber Unit was established in 2013 as part of the UK's National Cyber Security Programme. It integrates cyber capabilities across the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force.<ref name="RAF">Royal Air Force, [https://recruitment.raf.mod.uk/roles/roles-finder/cyberspace/joint-cyber-unit Joint Cyber Unit] ''RAF Recruitment''.</ref>

== Organisation ==
It is based at GCHQ in Cheltenham and operates under the command of GCHQ while drawing personnel from all three services.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[GCHQ]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:British Armed Forces]]
[[Category:Cyber warfare]]
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

2026-06-28T12:58:26Z

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{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats. It was overseen and run by the [[National Security Secretariat]] part of the intelligence community.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/government-cyber-resilience-summary.pdf Government cyber resilience] ''NAO'', 2025.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/section/history/our-origins-and-wwi Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]
* [[Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

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D-Backup:

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats. It was overseen and run by the [[National Security Secretariat]] part of the intelligence community.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/government-cyber-resilience-summary.pdf Government cyber resilience] ''NAO'', 2025.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/section/history/our-origins-and-wwi Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

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{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/government-cyber-resilience-summary.pdf Government cyber resilience] ''NAO'', 2025.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/section/history/our-origins-and-wwi Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

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{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/government-cyber-resilience-summary.pdf Government cyber resilience] ''NAO'', 2025.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

2026-06-28T12:52:16Z

D-Backup: /* Funding */

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/government-cyber-resilience-summary.pdf Government cyber resilience] ''NAO'', 2025.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

2026-06-28T12:50:47Z

D-Backup: /* History */

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell]] in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-uk-cyber-security-strategy-2011-2015/ The UK cyber security strategy 2011-2015] ''NAO'', 2016.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

2026-06-28T12:46:59Z

D-Backup: /* History */

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81bae5e5274a2e8ab558ca/UK_Cyber_Security_Strategy_Annual_Report_2016.pdf Cyber Security Strategy Annual Report 2016] ''Cabinet Office'', 2016.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-uk-cyber-security-strategy-2011-2015/ The UK cyber security strategy 2011-2015] ''NAO'', 2016.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

2026-06-28T12:43:32Z

D-Backup: /* Funding */

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with [[GCHQ]] receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's [[Joint Cyber Unit]].<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-uk-cyber-security-strategy-2011-2015/ The UK cyber security strategy 2011-2015] ''NAO'', 2016.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

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D-Backup:

{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's [[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)|National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with GCHQ receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's Joint Cyber Unit.<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-uk-cyber-security-strategy-2011-2015/ The UK cyber security strategy 2011-2015] ''NAO'', 2016.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Security Programme

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{{short description|UK government cyber security initiative}}

The '''National Cyber Security Programme''' ('''NCSP''') is a UK government programme established to enhance the United Kingdom's resilience to cyber threats.

== History ==
The NCSP was launched in 2011 as part of the UK's first [[National Cyber Security Strategy]]. It aimed to make the UK one of the most secure places in the world to do business online. Key components included the [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]] (CISP) and the establishment of the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership Fusion Cell in March 2013.<ref name="NCSC">National Cyber Security Centre, [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-us/our-history Our history] ''NCSC'', accessed 2026.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Funding ==
The 2011 strategy allocated £650 million over four years (2011–2015) for cyber security initiatives under the NCSP. The Cabinet Office distributed the budget primarily to defence and security entities, with GCHQ receiving the largest share to expand global cyber threat analysis, network defence capabilities, and host the Ministry of Defence's Joint Cyber Unit.<ref name="NAO">National Audit Office, [https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-uk-cyber-security-strategy-2011-2015/ The UK cyber security strategy 2011-2015] ''NAO'', 2016.</ref><ref name="GCHQ">GCHQ, [https://www.gchq.gov.uk/our-history Our history] ''GCHQ''.</ref> Funding supported skills development, research, critical national infrastructure protection, and international engagement.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom)]]
* [[Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Government programmes in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cyber security]]

National Cyber Strategy (2022–Present)

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{{short description|2022 UK national cyber strategy}}

The '''National Cyber Strategy''' (2022–Present) broadened the UK's cyber approach to "cyber power" and a whole-of-society model.

== Overview ==
It emphasises active cyber defence, international partnerships, and shifting responsibility to organisations.<ref name="2022Strategy">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-strategy-2022 National Cyber Strategy 2022] ''GOV.UK'', 2022.</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:2022 in the United Kingdom]]

National Cyber Security Strategy (2016–2021)

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{{short description|2016 UK national cyber security strategy}}

The '''National Cyber Security Strategy''' (2016–2021) was a major update backed by £1.9 billion in funding.

== Overview ==
It established the [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) as the UK's technical authority on cyber security.<ref name="2016Strategy">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2016-to-2021 National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021] ''GOV.UK'', 2016.</ref>

==Notes==
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:2016 in the United Kingdom]]

National Cyber Security Strategy (2016–2021)

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{{short description|2016 UK national cyber security strategy}}

The '''National Cyber Security Strategy''' (2016–2021) was a major update backed by £1.9 billion in funding.

== Overview ==
It established the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as the UK's technical authority on cyber security.<ref name="2016Strategy">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2016-to-2021 National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021] ''GOV.UK'', 2016.</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:2016 in the United Kingdom]]

UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)

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{{short description|2011 UK cyber security strategy}}

The '''UK Cyber Security Strategy''' (2011–2016) expanded the UK's approach to cyber security with a focus on economic growth and resilience.

== Overview ==
Launched in November 2011, it allocated £650 million through the [[National Cyber Security Programme]] and established key initiatives like [[CISP]].<ref name="2011Strategy">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:2011 in the United Kingdom]]

Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom (2009)

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{{short description|2009 UK cyber security strategy}}

The '''Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom''' (2009) was the UK's first formal national strategy dedicated to cyberspace.

== Overview ==
Published in 2009, it introduced the Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) and laid foundational policy for protecting UK interests in cyberspace.<ref name="2009Strategy">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cyber-security-strategy-of-the-united-kingdom-2009 Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom 2009] ''Cabinet Office'', 2009.</ref>
==Notes==
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:2009 in the United Kingdom]]

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

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{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding, based in [[NSS]] and included Fusion Unit with intel input [[MI5]], [[GCHQ]] || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies:
**[[Cyber Security Strategy of the United Kingdom (2009)]]
**[[UK Cyber Security Strategy (2011–2016)]]
**[[National Cyber Security Strategy (2016–2021)]]
**[[National Cyber Strategy (2022–Present)]]
(underpins GC3, GovAssure). [[National Cyber Security Programme]].

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

2026-06-28T12:22:09Z

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{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding, based in [[NSS]] and included Fusion Unit with intel input [[MI5]], [[GCHQ]] || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies: [[National Cyber Security Strategy]] (various, e.g. 2016–2021, 2022); [[Government Cyber Security Strategy 2022–2030]] (underpins GC3, GovAssure). [[National Cyber Security Programme]].

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

2026-06-28T12:19:50Z

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{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding, based in [[NSS]] and included Fusion Unit with intel input [[MI5]], [[GCHQ]] || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies: [[National Cyber Security Strategy]] (various, e.g. 2016–2021, 2022); [[Government Cyber Security Strategy 2022–2030]] (underpins GC3, GovAssure).

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

2026-06-28T12:18:10Z

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{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding(though included Fusion Unit with intel input [[MI5]], [[GCHQ]]) || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies: [[National Cyber Security Strategy]] (various, e.g. 2016–2021, 2022); [[Government Cyber Security Strategy 2022–2030]] (underpins GC3, GovAssure).

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK

2026-06-28T12:15:58Z

D-Backup: /* Defence and law enforcement */

{{short description|'''Overview of UK government bodies responsible for cybersecurity policy, policing, and intelligence'''}}
{{Infobox government agency
| name = Cybersecurity bodies of the United Kingdom
| type = Government agencies and units
| formed = Various (2000s–present)
| jurisdiction = {{flag|United Kingdom}}
| headquarters = London and other locations
| website = {{URL|https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/|NCSC}}
}}

The '''cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK''' form a coordinated network of government agencies, intelligence units, law enforcement teams, and cross-departmental initiatives focused on defending against cyber threats.

The [[National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)]] serves as the primary technical authority for cyber security.<ref name="ncscgov">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ National Cyber Security Centre website] ''NCSC'', accessed June 2026.</ref> It operates as part of [[GCHQ]].

The [[National Cyber Force (NCF)]] handles offensive cyber operations as a joint defence and intelligence partnership.<ref name="ncfgov">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about National Cyber Force] ''GOV.UK'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

== Active operational units ==
Key entities include the [[National Protective Security Authority (NPSA)]], successor to the [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]], operating as part of [[MI5]].<ref name="npsagov">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ National Protective Security Authority] ''NPSA'', accessed June 2026.</ref>

=== Defence and law enforcement ===
* [[Defence Digital]]
* [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC)
* [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) of the [[National Crime Agency]]

== Historical units ==
Legacy bodies merged into current structures, such as [[CESG]] and [[CERT-UK]] into the [[NCSC]].

== Governance and strategies ==
High-level oversight is provided by the [[National Security Council (NSC) Cyber Subcommittee]].
{| class="wikitable"
! [[Entity]] !! Dates !! Purpose !! Intel-related? !! Predecessor/Successor !! Notes
|-
| [[National Cyber Security Centre]] (NCSC) || 2016–present || UK's technical authority on cyber threats/incidents/advice <ref name="ncsc">[https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/ NCSC Official]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ) || Merged [[CESG]], [[CERT-UK]], CCA, CPNI cyber || Part of core intel community
|-
| [[National Cyber Force]] (NCF) || 2020–present || Joint offensive cyber ops vs threats <ref name="ncf">[https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-cyber-force/about NCF Gov]</ref> || Yes (GCHQ/MI6/MOD) || Successor [[NOCP]] || Samlesbury base
|-
| [[National Protective Security Authority]] (NPSA) || 2023–present || Physical/personnel/holistic state-threat security <ref name="npsa">[https://www.npsa.gov.uk/ NPSA Official]</ref> || Yes (MI5) || Successor [[CPNI]] (2007–2023) || Broader CNI remit
|-
| [[Government Cyber Coordination Centre]] (GC3) || 2022–present || Gov-wide threat coordination/incident response || No || Under Gov Cyber Strategy || Visibility/sharing
|-
| [[Government Security Group]] (GSG) / Gov Cyber Unit || Active || Overarching gov security standards ([[GovAssure]]) || No || Cabinet Office || Enforcement
|-
| [[Central Digital and Data Office]] (CDDO) & [[GDS]] || Active || Secure digital baselines || No || [[DSIT]] || Infrastructure
|-
| [[Defence Digital]] (ex-ISS) || Active || Military network backbone || Partial (MOD) || Corsham || Perimeter defence
|-
| [[Cyber Defence Operations Centre]] (CDOC) || Active || MOD network threat mitigation || Partial (MOD) || - || Defensive ops
|-
| [[Joint Cyber Reserve Force]] || 2013–present || Crisis support reservists || Partial (MOD) || - || Strategic Command
|-
| [[Land Intelligence Assurance Group]] (LIAG) || Active || Tactical cyber assurance || Partial (Army) || Under Defence Digital || Worldwide
|-
| [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] (NCCU) || 2013–present || Cyber crime investigation/prosecution || No (NCA collab) || - || Ransomware focus
|-
| [[CESG]] || Historical || GCHQ info assurance || Yes (GCHQ) || Predecessor [[NCSC]] || Closed 2016
|-
| [[Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance]] (OCSIA) / CGSD || Historical || 2009–2017 || Policy/funding(No) || To NCSC || Cabinet Office
|-
| [[Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC)]] || 2009–2016 || Network monitoring || Yes (GCHQ) || Pre-NCSC || Testbed
|-
| [[CERT-UK]] || 2014–2016 || National incident coordination || Partial || To NCSC || Dissolved
|-
| [[GovCERTUK]] || Closed 2014 || Gov network response || Partial || Early CERT || Predecessors
|-
| [[Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI)]] || 2007–2023 || CNI physical/cyber guidance || Partial (MI5) || NISCC/NSAC → NPSA || Evolved
|-
| [[National Offensive Cyber Programme (NOCP)]] || Historical || Offensive coordination || Yes || To NCF || Precursor
|-
| [[GovAssure Framework]] || 2023–present || Resilience assurance (CAF) || Policy || Cabinet Office || Mandatory
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP)]] || Active || Supply chain security || Partial || MOD/DSIT || Industry links
|-
| [[Defence Cyber Academy (DCA)]] || Active || Training hub || Partial (MOD) || Shrivenham || Skills
|}

*Key Policies/Strategies: [[National Cyber Security Strategy]] (various, e.g. 2016–2021, 2022); [[Government Cyber Security Strategy 2022–2030]] (underpins GC3, GovAssure).

*Committees: [[NSC Cyber Subcommittee]] (2010–), [[JCNSS]], [[PAC]] cyber oversight.

All claims drawn from official/gov sources; [[NCSC]], [[NCF]], [[NPSA]] form core of modern intel-linked cyber posture.

==Notes==

[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Cybersecurity]]
[[Category:Intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:National security of the United Kingdom]]

Defence Digital

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Part of the [[Cyber & Specialist Operations Command]].

==People==
Defence Digital had, in 2024, a team of around 2,500 personnel, which includes a mixture of military staff, civil servants, and contractors.

:Defence Digital is responsible for providing digital and technology capabilities to our Armed Forces. With an annual budget of over £2 billion and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, Defence Digital operates at scale to make our Armed Forces one of the most technologically advanced in the world. Led by the Chief Information Officer, [[Charlie Forte]], the Defence Digital organisation is responsible for ensuring that effective D&IT is put into the hands of the military and business front line. What we do and how we do it is guided by the [[Digital Strategy for Defence]]. <REf>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6602d514a6c0f7699def9164/Defence_Digital_Commercial.pdf</ref>

More detailed reports from late 2022 specified a figure of around 3,090 workers, of whom 570 were contractors in a [[National Audit Office]] document.<Ref>https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Digital-Strategy-for-Defence-A-review-of-early-implementation-HC797-The-NAO.epub</ref>

==Purpose==
An official notice states:
:Led by the Chief Information Officer (CIO), [[Charlie Forte]], the [[Defence Digital]] organisation is responsible for making sure that effective digital and information technology (D&IT) is put into the hands of the military and business front line. It is guided by the Digital Strategy for Defence.

:Some of the areas within its remit include:

*leading on defensive cyber strategy, capability development and policy
*supplying IT to 200,000 users across defence
*supporting global military operations
*improving innovation and digital information exploitation across defence
*integrating strategy, planning and performance management
*supporting over 2,000 defence sites across UK and globally.

:Defence Digital brought together and replaced a number of organisations, including [[Information Systems and Services]] (ISS) in 2019. The Defence Digital organisation has an annual budget of over £2 billion and a team of around 2,400 personnel including military, civil servants and contractors.<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-digital</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
*[[Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK]]

==Notes==

Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative

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== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
*[[Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK]]

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="SaundersGCSCC">Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, [https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders] ''University of Oxford''.</ref><ref name="SaundersGCA">Global Cyber Alliance, [https://globalcyberalliance.org/team/dr-jamie-saunders/ Dr Jamie Saunders] ''Global Cyber Alliance''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office.<ref name="EvansGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).<ref name="MiddletonRSA">RSA Conference, [https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/william-middleton William Middleton] ''RSA Conference''.</ref>

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="WhittakerGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-whittaker Andrew Whittaker] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cyber-security-education/cyber-security-leadership-2022/speakers-and-presenters/</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]
*[[Cybersecurity policy, policing and intelligence bodies in the UK]]
== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

Cyber Policy Department

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="SaundersGCSCC">Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, [https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders] ''University of Oxford''.</ref><ref name="SaundersGCA">Global Cyber Alliance, [https://globalcyberalliance.org/team/dr-jamie-saunders/ Dr Jamie Saunders] ''Global Cyber Alliance''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office.<ref name="EvansGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).<ref name="MiddletonRSA">RSA Conference, [https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/william-middleton William Middleton] ''RSA Conference''.</ref>

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="WhittakerGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-whittaker Andrew Whittaker] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cyber-security-education/cyber-security-leadership-2022/speakers-and-presenters/</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

Cyber Policy Department

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="SaundersGCSCC">Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, [https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders] ''University of Oxford''.</ref><ref name="SaundersGCA">Global Cyber Alliance, [https://globalcyberalliance.org/team/dr-jamie-saunders/ Dr Jamie Saunders] ''Global Cyber Alliance''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office.<ref name="EvansGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).<ref name="MiddletonRSA">RSA Conference, [https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/william-middleton William Middleton] ''RSA Conference''.</ref>

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="WhittakerGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-whittaker Andrew Whittaker] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cyber-security-education/cyber-security-leadership-2022/speakers-and-presenters/</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

Cyber Policy Department

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="SaundersGCSCC">Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, [https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders] ''University of Oxford''.</ref><ref name="SaundersGCA">Global Cyber Alliance, [https://globalcyberalliance.org/team/dr-jamie-saunders/ Dr Jamie Saunders] ''Global Cyber Alliance''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office.<ref name="EvansGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).<ref name="MiddletonRSA">RSA Conference, [https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/william-middleton William Middleton] ''RSA Conference''.</ref>

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="WhittakerGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-whittaker Andrew Whittaker] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cyber-security-education/cyber-security-leadership-2022/speakers-and-presenters/</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

Cyber Policy Department

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="SaundersGCSCC">Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, [https://gcscc.ox.ac.uk/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders] ''University of Oxford''.</ref><ref name="SaundersGCA">Global Cyber Alliance, [https://globalcyberalliance.org/team/dr-jamie-saunders/ Dr Jamie Saunders] ''Global Cyber Alliance''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office.<ref name="EvansGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).<ref name="MiddletonRSA">RSA Conference, [https://www.rsaconference.com/experts/william-middleton William Middleton] ''RSA Conference''.</ref>

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker (diplomat)|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="WhittakerGov">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/andrew-whittaker Andrew Whittaker] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.<ref>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cyber-security-education/cyber-security-leadership-2022/speakers-and-presenters/</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:
== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders (civil servant)|Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). A senior UK government lawyer and cyber expert who later became Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National Crime Agency.<ref name="JamieSaunders">UK Government, [https://www.gov.uk/government/people/jamie-saunders Jamie Saunders profile] ''GOV.UK''.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016). A career diplomat who has held senior roles in the Cabinet Office and as a visiting professor.<ref name="AlexEvans">Chatham House, [https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/alexander-evans Alexander Evans biography] ''Chatham House''.</ref>

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022). Senior FCO diplomat involved in cyber strategy implementation.

* '''[[George Scott (diplomat)|George Scott]]''' – FCDO Cyber Director (late 2022 – mid-2024). Led cyber diplomacy during the rollout of the 2022 UK National Cyber Strategy.

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker (diplomat)|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). He previously helped establish the UK’s first national CERT before its integration into the National Cyber Security Centre.<ref name="AndyWhittaker">UK Government announcement, [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-uk-cyber-ambassador-appointed New UK Cyber Ambassador appointed] ''GOV.UK'', October 2024.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). Later headed the [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] at the NCA.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016).

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).

* '''[[George Scott (diplomat)|George Scott]]''' – FCDO Cyber Director (late 2022 – mid-2024).

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker (diplomat)|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). Previously involved in establishing the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber diplomacy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Department''' (also referred to as the '''International Cyber Policy Department''' or '''Cyber Policy Team''') is the primary unit within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO, formerly FCO) responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and shaping the UK's global cyber security foreign policy.

== History and Naming ==
The unit has operated under varying names reflecting organisational changes:
* '''International Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2011–c. 2020) – the original formal title under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
* '''Cyber Policy Department''' (c. 2020–present) – the current name following the 2020 FCO-DFID merger that created the FCDO.
* '''Cyber Policy Team''' – a common informal or shorthand reference used in official correspondence and external documents.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref><ref name="CabinetOffice">UK Cabinet Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-security-strategy-2011 National Cyber Security Strategy 2011] ''Cabinet Office'', November 2011.</ref>

== Reporting Lines ==
In 2013, the department sat within the Human Rights and International Security Directorate of the FCO and reported to the Director General for Defence and Intelligence Directorate|Defence and Intelligence]]. It ultimately reported to the Permanent Under-Secretary and the Foreign Secretary ([[William Hague]] at the time).<ref name="FCDO2013">UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-human-rights-and-democracy-report-2013 Annual Human Rights and Democracy Report 2013] ''FCO'', 2014.</ref>

Following the creation of the FCDO, the Cyber Policy Department is led by the UK's [[Cyber Director]] (who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador) and sits within the broader security and international relations structure.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project (the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative). It held the budget, managed the grant under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and coordinated with the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>
== Staffing ==
In the early 2010s the International Cyber Policy Department operated as a relatively small specialised team within the FCO. Exact staffing numbers for 2013 are not publicly disclosed in detail, but the unit comprised policy advisers, legal experts, and diplomats focused on cyber diplomacy. Key named staff included senior officials coordinating international capacity-building initiatives such as the Ghana pilot.

The department has since evolved under the FCDO, with the current Cyber Policy Department led by a dedicated Cyber Director who also serves as the UK Cyber Ambassador. Staffing has grown to support expanded global cyber diplomacy efforts.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Staffing ==
The Cyber Policy Department (formerly International Cyber Policy Department) has been led by a series of senior officials. Exact numbers of junior staff are not publicly detailed due to civil service data privacy rules.

Known Cyber Directors and Senior Heads:

* '''[[Jamie Saunders]]''' – Director of International Cyber Policy (January 2012 – late 2014). Later headed the [[National Cyber Crime Unit]] at the NCA.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

* '''[[Alexander Evans (diplomat)|Alexander Evans]] OBE''' – Foreign Office Director Cyber (c. 2015–2016).

* '''[[Will Middleton]]''' – Director Cyber / Cyber Policy Department (until c. 2022).

* '''[[George Scott (diplomat)|George Scott]]''' – FCDO Cyber Director (late 2022 – mid-2024).

* '''[[Andrew Whittaker (diplomat)|Andrew (Andy) Whittaker]]''' – Current FCDO Cyber Director and UK Cyber Ambassador (appointed September/October 2024 – present). Previously involved in establishing the UK’s first national CERT.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

[[Juliette Wilcox]] CMG, a career diplomat, served as UK Cyber Security Ambassador for the Department for Business and Trade (2022–2024) and collaborated closely with the FCDO Cyber Policy Department.

== Notes ==
<references />

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

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{{short description|UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cyber policy unit}}

The '''FCO Cyber Policy Team''' (part of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, formerly the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) is the UK government unit responsible for international cyber diplomacy, capacity building, and cyber security policy.

== History ==
The team has coordinated the UK's international cyber engagement, including funding and oversight of capacity-building programmes in developing countries.

== Role in Ghana Pilot ==
The FCO Cyber Policy Team provided overall governance for the 2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project, the initial proof of concept for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI). It managed the budget under the title “CCI Capacity Building in Ghana and the West Africa Region - Local Project Facilitation”, set diplomatic objectives, and reported to the Cabinet Office.<ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[National Cyber Security Programme]]
* [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative]]

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]]
[[Category:Government of the United Kingdom]]

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{{short description|2013-2014 UK-supported cybercrime capacity building pilot in Ghana}}

The '''2013–2014 Ghana Pilot Project''' was the initial "proof of concept" for the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI), a UK-supported programme aimed at building cybercrime capacity in developing Commonwealth nations.

== History ==
Launched on 20 March 2014 in Accra in partnership with the Ghanaian Ministry of Communications, the pilot addressed rapid internet growth in developing countries without adequate legal or technical cyber defences. It focused on curriculum integration, needs assessments, and policy impact in West Africa.<ref name="CCI">Cybil Portal, [https://cybilportal.org/projects/commonwealth-cybercrime-initiative/ Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative] ''Cybil Portal''.</ref><ref name="FCDO">UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/commonwealth-cyber-programme-country-case-studies Commonwealth Cyber Programme: country case studies] ''FCDO'', 9 March 2021.</ref>

== Key People ==
* [[Tim Crosland]] – Chair of the Executive Management Committee of the CCI and key coordinator.

== Stakeholders ==
Key partners included:
* UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) – primary funding via international cyber-capacity funds.
* UK Open University – educational anchor for curriculum and distance learning.
* Ghanaian institutions such as Ghana Technology University College.
* UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) – legal advisor on digital evidence and mutual legal assistance.
* International partners including UNCTAD and ECOWAS.

== Outcomes ==
The pilot successfully integrated cybersecurity modules into Ghanaian university curricula, informed national legal frameworks, and laid groundwork for Ghana's improved standing on the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index.

== Notes ==
<references />

[[Category:Cyber security in Ghana]]
[[Category:United Kingdom cyber security]]
[[Category:Commonwealth of Nations]]
[[Category:2014 in Ghana]]