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Matt Western

Matt Western

Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom

Jul 14, 2026

4:45
Matt, how confident are you in the current structures and regulatory frameworks that the government has? How confident are you that these are able to keep pace with the current threat as both you and Chris just set out?
4:58
I think we're trying to catch up.
4:59
Um, the difficulty is that I think this area of cybersecurity has been one that perhaps hasn't been taken quite as seriously, uh, as it ne- needed to be, whether it's in the public sector or, or the private sector.
5:13
I think it was one of those areas which was maybe something that was on an agenda, uh, in boardrooms but maybe wasn't front of mind.
5:21
And as some senior business executives have said to me, "When it hits you, you just do not realize.
5:27
It's like a tsunami.
5:28
You just really have no idea, uh, the scale of what's, what's about to hit you." And what we need to make sure is that through legislation is to, is to make sure that we mandate reporting.

12 MINS LATER

17:53
And Matt, what role do you see the government could have in, in closing that skills gap and, of course, improving cooperation and information sharing between government and industry?

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