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<p>As announced in the Queen’s Speech of May 2021, the Home Office will be introducing
new legislation to provide the security services and law enforcement agencies with
the tools they need to tackle the evolving threat of hostile activity by foreign states.</p><p>This
legislation will modernise existing offences, to deal more effectively with the espionage
threat, and create new offences, to criminalise other harmful activity conducted by,
and on behalf of states.</p><p>A bill will be introduced as soon as parliamentary
time allows.</p>
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