Intelligence Services: Finance
Commons · Question 30978 · Tabled 12 Feb 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 26 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Mark Pritchard
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing funding for the security service in the context of existing and emerging state and non-state threats to the UK’s national security.
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 26 Feb 2025
Keeping the country safe is the first duty of government. MI5 has a key role to play alongside SIS, GCHQ and the rest of the UK’s national security and law enforcement community in achieving that.The Chancellor confirmed in the Autumn Budget on 13 October...