The Government agrees that Ofcom has an important role to play in taking forward this agenda and in helping to create the right market conditions to support the process of diversification within the UK market. The Diversification Taskforce has set out its views on Ofcom’s role and the importance of clarity in this area. We are working closely with Ofcom to ensure that they have the sufficient powers, where they will need them. Following the Royal Assent of the Telecommunications (Security) Bill, Ofcom will have a more extensive responsibility to ensure the security of networks and services, together with substantial new powers to back up its monitoring and enforcement role. Clause 5 of the Bill includes a duty on Ofcom to ensure operators comply with their security duties. Those duties include compliance with: • high-level requirements in the Bill to identify and reduce the risks of security compromises and prepare for their occurrence, with definitions of a “security compromise” set out in the Bill; • specific security requirements set out in secondary legislation, which rest on powers in the Bill and again must be based on definitions of a security compromise; • requirements to inform other providers of a “security compromise” to their own network or service. The Government is also considering updating the Statement of Strategic Priorities, as suggested by the Committee.