Half of government grant to infosec training biz suspended as MPs demand probe
Infosec training biz Hacker House has been catapulted to Parliamentary prominence after reports that co-founder Jennifer Arcuri secured government funding because of her personal relationship with now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
At today's first Parliamentary sitting since the Supreme Court overruled prorogation yesterday, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) minister Matt Warman (a former tech editor of the Daily Telegraph) was sent in to bat on behalf of Johnson – and thus Hacker House.
Hacker House was promised £100,000 in January as part of a government fund to "help drive diversity in cybersecurity", as Labour party deputy leader Tom Watson MP noted in Parliament.
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