To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what (a) budget and (b) personnel his Department will provide for the (i) Office of Cyber Security and (ii) Cyber Security Operations Centre in the first 12 months of operation.

The Office of Cyber Security (OCS) will be established in September 2009 to provide strategic leadership for and coherence across Government, and to establish a cross-Government programme to address priority areas in pursuit of the UK's strategic cyber security objectives. The OCS will be established in and supported by the Cabinet Office. As a multi-agency body, it will include personnel from across Government; the exact staffing arrangements are currently being determined.

The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) will be established at the same time to bring together existing multi-agency efforts to provide situational awareness, analysis and incident response co-ordination in the cyber security field, making sure that new and existing resources are used to best effect in the areas where they are needed the most. As a multi-agency body, in common with the OCS, the CSOC will include personnel from across Government; the exact staffing arrangements are currently being determined.

The additional resources for the Government's overall cyber security programme will be reported to the House in the autumn.