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444261

	registered interest
	date	12/01/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Question 20367, what the educational basis is of adults adopting safer online behaviours; and under what cost headings the Cyber Streetwise campaign spent its funds in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	22101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2016 answer text <p>Cyber Streetwise is a cross Government campaign, developed by private and public stakeholder partners and coordinated by the Home Office’s Research, Information and Communications Unit. It is designed to measurably make the UK a safer place to interact and do business online by increasing individual and SME adoption of safe online behaviours.</p><p>The impact of Cyber Streetwise on behaviours is evaluated via regular quantitative tracking research. Since its launch in January 2014, it is estimated that 2 million adults have adopted safer online behaviours that will better protect them. Cyber Streetwise has spent its funds in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16 under the following categories:</p><p>• Media spend and production</p><p>• PR, partnership and social</p><p>• Research</p><p>• Website</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 18/01/2016 18:14:05 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

517490

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office of 26 April 2016, Official Report, column 1363, on the Policing and Crime Bill, what steps she is taking to ensure that cybercrime is included in the crime statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	36524
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>In April 2012, the Home Secretary transferred the responsibility for the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and the publication of crime statistics to the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) - to ensure the public had confidence in the statistics after years of poor data management.</p><p>A major strength of the CSEW has been its ability to compare crime types over time back to the 1980s. As ONS have acknowledged, over a period of time, new technologies such as the internet have expanded the scope of existing crime types and developed new ones, particularly in fraud and cybercrime. Therefore, following a period of extensive development work, ONS introduced new questions to the CSEW in October 2015. ONS have said that they will release estimates of fraud and cyber crime based on the first six months data (October 2015 to March 2016) alongside the main statistical bulletin in July 2016 and will label them as experimental statistics.</p><p>It is important to recognise that these data are not simply uncovering new crimes, but finding better ways of capturing existing crimes which were not measured as well in the past.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 09/05/2016 10:47:15 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

101179

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud have been referred to regional police forces for investigation in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Julie Hilling
	uin	212024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud, cyber-enabled financial crime and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences, and is operated by the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud.Action Fraud only assumed full responsibility for recording fraud and offences under the CMA in 2013/14. The Home Office does not hold data for the breakdown of disseminations from the City of London Police to local police forces by the factors involved in the crime, such as whether it involved a cyber element. In 2013/14 City of London Police disseminated around 40,000 crimes to police forces for consideration for investigation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 30/10/2014 11:38:30 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3925 label Biography information for Julie Hilling

101180

	registered interest
	date	27/10/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many successful prosecutions were made for cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud in each year since 2009.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton West
	tabling member printed	Julie Hilling
	uin	212020
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The data requested is not available. Information on prosecutions is held by the Crown Prosecution Service and is not relayed back to Action Fraud to correlate against reports.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 30/10/2014 11:39:46 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3925 label Biography information for Julie Hilling

1543232

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2022
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help reduce the severity of ransomware attacks.
	tabling member constituency	Bridgend
	tabling member printed	Dr Jamie Wallis
	uin	89905
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2022 answer text <p>Tackling cyber crime is at the heart of the Government’s new National Cyber Strategy which is supported by £2.6bn of new investment over the three-year Spending Review period. The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-cyber-strategy-2022" target="_blank">National Cyber Strategy</a> (2022-2025) has set the direction and ambition for investment and efforts in UK Cyber.</p><p>Delivery of the National Cyber Strategy is driving significant improvements in the UK’s response to cyber crime. It is strengthening the law enforcement response and driving greater collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre and the National Cyber Force.</p><p>Ransomware is a top priority for the Government. It is clear that ransomware attacks are increasingly common globally and represent one of the most significant, and growing, international cyber threats.</p><p>The Home Office launched a focused campaign to accelerate our response to this growing threat in June 2021. Key work strands include understanding the threat landscape; incident reporting, ransom payment, cyber sanctions; crypto assets policy, cyber insurance; and collaborating with colleagues across Government, law enforcement, industry and our international partners to tackle threat.</p><p>It is clear that ransomware attacks are increasingly common globally and represent one of the most significant, and growing, international cyber threats. As a transnational problem, any solution will need to be developed in close step with our international partners.</p><p>The UK works closely with allies across the world to disrupt ransomware gangs and the infrastructure they use to target UK businesses and organisations. In December 2021, the UK held a G7 Senior Officials’ Forum on ransomware to combat the threat, and the UK is taking a leading roles in the international US-led Counter Ransomware Initiative.</p><p>Resilience against these attacks is our best defence. The Home Office works alongside law enforcement and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to mitigate any harm to the UK from ransomware. The NCSC and the National Crime Agency (NCA) continues to advise organisations which fall victim to ransomware and provide guidance on how to protect yourself and your business.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 25/11/2022 10:15:34 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
	tabling member	4766 label Biography information for Dr Jamie Wallis

760117

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has (a) received and (b) complied with any requests under mutual legal assistance treaties requesting the seizure of domain names and IP addresses which are being used to facilitate cyber crime.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	10368
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office regularly engages with law enforcement bodies to review cyber crime-related legislation in order to ensure that it keeps pace with evolving threats.</p><p>Law enforcement agencies currently can and do work in close partnership with service providers to remove illegal content online.</p><p>The Home Office is not aware of any MLA requests to seize domain names and IP addresses used to facilitate cyber crime.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 10435 question first answered 09/10/2017 09:05:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

760119

	registered interest
	date	13/09/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has any plans to bring forward legislative proposals to enable law enforcement bodies such as the National Crime Agency (NCA) to seize domain names and IP addresses where they are being used to facilitate cyber crime; and whether she has received any representations from the NCA on that matter.
	tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
	tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
	uin	10435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office regularly engages with law enforcement bodies to review cyber crime-related legislation in order to ensure that it keeps pace with evolving threats.</p><p>Law enforcement agencies currently can and do work in close partnership with service providers to remove illegal content online.</p><p>The Home Office is not aware of any MLA requests to seize domain names and IP addresses used to facilitate cyber crime.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 10368 question first answered 09/10/2017 09:05:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

575555

	registered interest
	date	30/08/2016
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of cybercrime.
	tabling member constituency	City of Chester
	tabling member printed	Christian Matheson
	uin	906099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2016 answer text <p>As crime falls, we know that it is also changing. The internet and new technology offer criminals new opportunities to commit crimes such as fraud and cyber crime. This is why we have committed to spending a further £1.9 billion on cyber security over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2016 16:26:52 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	4408 label Biography information for Christian Matheson

1385752

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2021
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on trends in the (a) number of and (b) number of victims of online scams; and what steps her Department is taking to help protect (i) people and (ii) businesses from cyber crime.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
	tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
	uin	88738
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As noted in the response to PQ:130746, the Government remains deeply concerned by the growth in scale and complexity of online scams, especially during COVID-19. That is why, we are actively working with industry, regulators, law enforcement and consumer groups to crack down on these crimes and to protect victims.</p><p>As of March 2020, 53% of fraud incidents estimated by the Crime Survey of England and Wales were thought to be cyber-related. The most recently available quarterly data for the year ending June 2021 of the number of reports of fraud made to Action Fraud that have been recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) have been published by the Office for National Statistics and can currently be found in Table A5 here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a>.</p><p>Tackling cyber crime is a complex problem and, as we made clear in the Beating Crime Plan published earlier this year, we are working across government to deliver improvements to the UK’s cyber resilience and ensure we stay ahead of cyber criminals. We have invested £195 million over the last five years to establish a specialist cyber law enforcement network to disrupt and prosecute cyber criminals and support victims in response and recovery.</p><p>To protect people and businesses from cyber crime we have launched the Cyber Resilience Centres to assist small businesses; the National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU) scheme to ensure that the right support is provided to victims by the right organisation, dependent on their individual need; and the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme to help tackle a significant proportion of the cyber attacks that hit the UK.</p><p>The Government will also publish a new National Cyber Security Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/12/2021 16:02:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 38421 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
	tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher

792997

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2017
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her department has made of the level of recorded cybercrime in each of the last seven years.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	114782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office collects information from police forces on the number of police recorded offences that have been committed (in full or in part) online. The online flag became mandatory from April 2015 therefore data prior to this are not available.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the number of police recorded offences flagged as having an online element are published as experimental statistics in the ONS ‘Crime in England and Wales’ quarterly bulletins.</p><p> </p><p>These data can be found in table E4 of the experimental tables on the ONS website: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesexperimentaltables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesexperimentaltables</a>.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2017 14:44:43 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham