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# UK parliamentary committee finds subsea cable defences 'too timid'
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-09-19-uk-jcnss-subsea-cable-report/
- Published: 2025-09-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T04:01:11.000Z
- Description: A UK parliamentary committee found government defence of subsea cables "too timid", noting 75 percent of transatlantic capacity passes through two Cornwall cables. It urged a sovereign cable repair ship by 2030 and tougher sabotage laws.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [UK Parliament, Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, "Subsea telecommunications cables: resilience and crisis preparedness", 19 September 2025](https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5901/jtselect/jtnatsec/723/report.html?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that the government has accepted or acted on the recommendations, only that the committee published its findings.

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**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-14\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)