Cyber, Information and Tech Threats Directorate

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The new name of the Information Threats and Influence Directorate which existed until at least September 2024.

The FCDO claimed in September 2025 that:

The Integrated Review Refresh 2023 under the previous Government set out that the FCDO should establish a dedicated directorate ‘to assess and respond to the hostile manipulation of information by Russia, China and Iran where they affect UK interests abroad’. This has been established as the Cyber, Information and Tech Threats Directorate (CITT). CITT has developed national security focused responses to countering malign information operations. This complements wider disinformation work across the FCDO, including work on media freedom and information integrity.[1]

This would appear to be false. In fact in The Integrated Review Refresh of 2023, published in March of that year, it was noted that :

And:

In a world in which disinformation is proliferating, we have established a new directorate in the FCDO to build our capability to assess and respond to the hostile manipulation of information.[2]

And:

We have established a new directorate in the FCDO – incorporating the Government Information Cell – as part of a drive to increase our capability to assess and respond to the hostile manipulation of information by actors including Russia, China and Iran where they affect UK interests abroad. [3]

In other words the Directorate was established before the Review and not after as the FCDO implies above.

In September 2025 the FCDO listed the Director as Jonathan Hall at Grade SCS2 on a salary of between £105,000 and £109,999.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ↑ https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/138112/pdf/
  2. ↑ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/641d72f45155a2000c6ad5d5/11857435_NS_IR_Refresh_2023_Supply_AllPages_Revision_7_WEB_PDF.pdf : p.14
  3. ↑ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/641d72f45155a2000c6ad5d5/11857435_NS_IR_Refresh_2023_Supply_AllPages_Revision_7_WEB_PDF.pdf : p.37
  4. ↑ Jonathan Hall SCS2 Providing policy advice Director Foreign, Commonweath & Development Office Foreign, Commonweath & Development Office Cyber, Information and Tech Threats Directorate 020 7008 5000 fcdo.correspondence@fcdo.gov.uk 800014 7629094 1 105000 109999
  5. ↑ https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/datagovuk-production-ckan-organogram/fcdo-organograms/resources/2025-12-08T11-33-54Z-2025-12-08-organogram-senior.csv
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