Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent progress he has made on promoting UK cyber exports. [173505]

Michael Fallon, Minister of State for Business and Energy: In May of this year (2013) UK Trade and Investment's (UKTI) Defence and Security Organisation (DSO) published a cyber security exports strategy. This strategy sets out a number of actions which UKTI is actively pursuing, in conjunction with several other Government Departments, to assist UK industry to export cyber security capability.

Implementation of the strategy is under way both in day-to-day assistance provided to UK industry by UKTI and through the Cyber Growth Partnership which the Minister for Universities and Science, my right hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr Willetts), co-chairs along with the CEO of BT Group. The Cyber Growth Partnership is currently overseeing work to prioritise target markets for cyber security exports and is developing joint action plans between Government and industry to assist exports into these markets.

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