Mr. David McGill:

There is a combination of oversight arrangements. Primarily, it will be the Department because the Department must ensure the legislation is being properly implemented. There is also in existence what is called the national competent authority forum. These regulators are already meeting regularly to decide how they are going to implement this legislation. They have already decided how they are going to create the risk management measures they need to implement in each of their sectors.

The NCSC will be the lead competent authority just by virtue of the fact that it has the most experience.

It is chairing this forum and will drive it in a direction that will standardise these measures throughout the different sectors. Within the Bill itself there are measures by which we can pass secondary legislation if needs be in order to set into legislation the risk management measures so that if it is not being applied in one sector, it can be applied across all other sectors.