Guidance

Telecommunications (Security) Bill: overarching documents

These documents relate to the Telecommunications (Security) Bill.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Published: 24 November 2020

Documents

Telecommunications (Security) Bill

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0216/200216.pdf

The Telecommunications Security Bill 2020: National security powers in relation to high risk vendors (Impact Assessment)

PDF, 562 KB, 85 pages

The Telecommunications Security Bill 2020: The Telecoms Security legislation (Impact Assessment)

PDF, 364 KB, 63 pages

Details

The Telecommunications (Security) Bill takes forward the government’s commitments within the Telecoms Supply Chain Review Report to establish an enhanced legislative framework for telecoms security, and to provide the government with the powers to take action on the use of high risk vendors on national security grounds.

You can also read Telecommunications (Security) Bill: factsheets.

Published 24 November 2020