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UK cyber resilience bill clears Second Reading, extending NIS duties to cloud and data centres

The UK's Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill passed Second Reading in the Commons on 6 January 2026, bringing data centres, cloud services and managed service providers under NIS-style duties aligned with the EU's NIS2 model.

Reported Editor-read Comms Council UK press briefing, January 2026

What it does not test. It does not establish that the bill has passed into law, only that it cleared its first Commons vote.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Only cleared 2nd Reading, not enacted; no law question yet moved. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-09-17. How the record is made

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