Matt Western
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Jul 14, 2026
How can the UK protect its Critical National Infrastructure from cyberattacks?
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Zoë GrünewaldHOST
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?
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4:59Matt WesternGUEST
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.
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5:13Matt WesternGUEST
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.
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5:21Matt WesternGUEST
And as some senior business executives have said to me, "When it hits you, you just do not realize.
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5:28Matt WesternGUEST
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

Zoë GrünewaldHOST
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?