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Services

1. Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund

   The Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund aims to increase the diversity and numbers of those working in the UK's booming cyber security sector.

2. Security check / counter terrorist check questionnaire: NSV001

   Complete this form to undertake a United Kingdom Security Vetting security check or counter terrorist check.

3. UKSV National Security Vetting: change of personal circumstances

   Change of personal circumstances form produced by United Kingdom Security Vetting.

4. UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for subjects

   Guidance notes for subjects on the National Security Vetting Solution.

5. Financial questionnaire: NSV003

   Complete this form to undertake a financial check for United Kingdom Security Vetting.

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Guidance and regulation

1. Prevent duty guidance
   • Statutory guidance
   • 10 April 2019
   • Home Office
2. National security vetting: advice for people who are being vetted
   • Guidance
   • 25 May 2018
   • Cabinet Office and Government Security Profession
3. Firearms security handbook 2019
   • Guidance
   • 1 October 2019
   • Home Office
4. Government baseline personnel security standard
   • Guidance
   • 11 June 2018
   • Cabinet Office, National security and intelligence, and Government Security Profession
5. Channel guidance
   • Guidance
   • 23 April 2015
   • Home Office

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News and communications

27 September 2019 — News story

Update: air strikes against Daesh

Ministry of Defence

1. UK to help develop new tech to stop sharing of terrorist content
   • 24 September 2019
   • Home Office and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
   • News story
2. Foreign Secretary: UK must step up its role as a good global citizen
   • 23 September 2019
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release
3. Terms of reference for independent review of Prevent announced
   • 16 September 2019
   • Home Office
   • News story
4. Letter to the HASC confirming appointment of the Independent Reviewer of Prevent
   • 12 August 2019
   • Home Office
   • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

1. Training and exercise deaths in the UK armed forces: 2019
   • 26 September 2019
   • Ministry of Defence
   • Official statistics
2. Cyber Security Breaches Survey
   • 25 September 2019
   • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
   • Research
3. Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000, quarterly update to June 2019 second edition
   • 20 September 2019
   • Home Office
   • National statistics
4. Home Office – Statistics at Home Office
   • 29 August 2019
   • Home Office
   • Statistics
5. Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing: supervision report 2017 to 2018
   • 6 August 2019
   • HM Treasury
   • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Report of the Detainee Inquiry
   • 24 September 2019
   • Cabinet Office
   • Policy paper
2. Port facility security officer training: list of approved training providers
   • 8 July 2019
   • Department for Transport
   • Policy paper
3. National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021: progress so far
   • 31 May 2019
   • Cabinet Office and National security and intelligence
   • Policy paper
4. Serious and organised crime strategy (Welsh versions)
   • 25 April 2019
   • Home Office
   • Policy paper
5. Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations
   • 12 April 2019
   • Home Office
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. NSS and SDSR 2015: Third Annual Report
   • 22 July 2019
   • Cabinet Office, Department for International Development, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
   • Corporate report
2. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: annual report 2018 to 2019
   • 18 July 2019
   • Cabinet Office, Department for International Development, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Stabilisation Unit, and Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
   • Corporate report
3. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund: Pakistan annual review summaries 2017 to 2018
   • 20 June 2019
   • Department for International Development, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Crown Prosecution Service, National Crime Agency, and Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
   • Corporate report
4. Quarterly report to Parliament: 1 October 2018 to 31 December 2018 (‘TAFA 2010’)
   • 12 April 2019
   • HM Treasury and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
   • Corporate report
5. Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2019
   • 28 March 2019
   • Cabinet Office and National security and intelligence
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Ministry of Defence
2. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. Home Office
5. Cabinet Office

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1. Northern Ireland Office
2. Department for Transport
3. Department for International Development
4. National security and intelligence
5. Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
6. HM Treasury
7. Office of the Secretary of State for Wales Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd Gwladol Cymru
8. Defence and Security Accelerator
9. Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
10. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
11. Ministry of Justice
12. Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation HM Treasury
13. Civil Nuclear Constabulary
14. Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
15. Civil Nuclear Police Authority
16. Department for International Trade
17. Stabilisation Unit
18. Department of Health & Social Care
19. Government Security Profession
20. Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs
21. Department for Exiting the European Union
22. Border Force
23. Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
24. Defence Electronics & Components Agency
25. Government Office for Science
26. Immigration Enforcement
27. Maritime & Coastguard Agency
28. Department for Education
29. Government Digital Service
30. HM Revenue & Customs
31. Attorney General's Office
32. Defence Safety Authority
33. Department for Work & Pensions
34. HM Courts & Tribunals Service
35. HM Passport Office
36. Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
37. Crown Commercial Service
38. Disclosure & Barring Service
39. Marine Management Organisation
40. Security Vetting Appeals Panel
41. UK Export Finance
42. Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors
43. Armed Forces' Pay Review Body
44. CFRA
45. Civil Service
46. Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service
47. Infrastructure and Projects Authority
48. Intellectual Property Office
49. Office for Civil Society
50. Office of Manpower Economics
51. Office of the Advocate General for Scotland
52. The Oil and Pipelines Agency
53. Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
54. Public Health England
55. UK Visas and Immigration

1. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
2. Defence Infrastructure Organisation
3. Defence Equipment and Support
4. Military Aviation Authority
5. National Counter Terrorism Security Office
6. Veterans UK
7. Joint Forces Command
8. Department for International Trade Defence & Security Organisation
9. Innovate UK
10. Environment Agency
11. Export Control Joint Unit
12. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
13. Biometrics Commissioner
14. Marine Accident Investigation Branch
15. UK Hydrographic Office
16. Single Source Regulations Office
17. Surveillance Camera Commissioner
18. Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committees
19. Air Accidents Investigation Branch
20. Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group
21. Forensic Science Regulator
22. Low Level Waste Repository Ltd
23. Ofsted
24. Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Associations
25. Sellafield Ltd
26. Technical Advisory Board
27. UK Space Agency
28. Youth Justice Board for England and Wales