{"id":4295,"date":"2025-02-05T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:06:58","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-meets-with-armed-forces-minister-to-discuss-safeguarding-critical-national-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"Critical National Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, recently met with the Armed Forces Minister, Luke Pollard MP, to discuss safeguarding Critical National Infrastructure in light of the recent threat posed by a Russian Submarine that was recently revealed to have entered British waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John said of the meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI received a briefing from Armed Forces Minister, Luke Pollard MP, about the threat to Critical National Infrastructure cables posed by Russian Submarines. This follows the revelation of the activities of the Russian Intelligence Ship, Yantar, which was monitored having entered British waters and the recent damage to a critical power cable between Estonia and Finland which was suspected to have been caused by a Russian vessel.&nbsp;Undersea infrastructure is crucial for energy supply through power cables and pipelines, while more than 95% of internet traffic is also secured via undersea cables.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with Luke Pollard MP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Undersea-Cable-5-February-2025-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting with the Armed Forces Minister to discuss protecting critical undersea infrastructure following reports of Russian activity near UK waters and growing security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}