Huawei will face ‘tight restrictions’ over 5G, says culture secretary
Culture secretary Baroness Morgan has claimed the government’s green light for Huawei decision will “not be at the expense of our national security”.
The culture secretary stated: “High risk vendors never have been and never will be in our most sensitive networks.
“The government has reviewed the supply chain for telecoms networks and concluded today it is necessary to have tight restrictions on the presence of high risk vendors.
“This is a UK-specific solution for UK-specific reasons and the decision deals with the challenges we face right now. It not only paves the way for secure and resilient networks, with our sovereignty over data protected, but it also builds on our strategy to develop a diversity of suppliers.
“We can now move forward and seize the huge opportunities of 21st-century technology.”
Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, added: “This package will ensure that the UK has a very strong, practical and technically sound framework for digital security in the years ahead.”
