Difference between revisions of "National Security Secretariat"
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Revision as of 09:36, 13 September 2022
The National Security Secretariat (NSS) is one of the ‘seven Agencies and Departments which form the UK Intelligence Community’.[1][2]
It supports 'the National Security Council (NSC) and the Prime Minister across all national security and international policy issues'. [3]
The 'core NSS objectives' are to:
- Protect our people at home, in our Overseas Territories and abroad; and to protect our territory, economic security, infrastructure and way of life
- Project our global influence reducing the likelihood of threats materialising and affecting the UK, our interests and those of our allies and partners
- Promote our prosperity seizing opportunities, working innovatively and supporting UK industry[3]
Units within the NSS
- The International Affairs Unit (IAU) is one of six units within NSS – the others being Intelligence & Security, Hostile State Activity and Cyber, International Economic, Capabilities, and the Civil Contingencies Secretariat.[3]
People
National Security Secretariat as at 30 June 2010. Source Cabinet Office Structure Charts, 2010. Retrieved from Internet Archive of 15 April 2015.
Notes
- ↑ Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament How the Committee works. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 March 2020.
- ↑ Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament How the Committee works. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 15 June 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cabinet Office 4597 - B1 (EO) Executive Support Officer, National Security Secretariat. Closing date 5 January 2020. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 13 September 2022.
