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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

752715

registered interest
date	17/07/2017
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 steps she has taken to ensure that each police service in England and Wales invests in training on the prioritisation, investigation and evidence-gathering for digital crime and abuse.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	5201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2017 answer text <p>The cyber threats we face continue to grow in scale and sophistication. This is why the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 is supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment. Through the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP), this Government continues to invest in law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional and local levels to ensure delivery agencies have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber crime.</p><p> </p><p>The College of Policing Cyber Digital Career Pathway Project will create a Cyber Digital Investigation Profession across law enforcement providing a career pathway and professional certification for professionals at the core of digital investigations – setting the industry standards.</p><p> </p><p>With £4.6m from the Police Transformation Fund (PTF) 2016-17 the NPCC set up the Digital Policing Portfolio (DPP) to help provide a step-change in digital capability, equipping forces with the tools to police effectively in a digital age and protect the public from digital crime. In addition, the Police Transformation Fund awarded £1.5m to the ‘Crystallise’ project; ‘Defining the Digital Intelligence &amp; Investigations Service Model for Local Policing’. This aims to make Digital Intelligence and Investigation part of day-to-day local policing by creating a service model.</p><p>Individual police forces are responsible for ensuring that their officers and staff have the necessary training to do their job. The College of Policing supports forces by setting standards for professional practice, supported by the best available evidence, and ensures that those working in policing have access to the right training to meet those standards.</p> answering member constituency Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner answering member printed Mr Nick Hurd question first answered 08/09/2017 08:49:08 answering member 1561 label Biography information for Mr Nick Hurd
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

750854

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
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 targets she has set for local police forces to tackle cybercrime; and how work to meet those targets will be funded.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
tabling member printed	Alex Norris
uin	4153
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office is committed to not placing unnecessary bureaucratic burdens on the police and has scrapped all central targets. However, Chief Constables are under a duty to comply with the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR). The SPR provides a framework for consistent, collective decision making by forces, but leaves the specifics of how this should be achieved to Chief Constables.</p><p>The Strategic Policing Requirements describes organised crime, including large scale cyber crime, as a national threat that Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners are expected to plan and prepare, together or in support of national arrangements, to address these threats.</p><p>The National Police Chiefs’ Council has oversight of force contributions to the SPR. Police and Crime Commissioners are required to hold Chief Constables to account for the delivery of the SPR and to have regard to the SPR when producing their police and crime plans. The Home Office also continue to support forces in building professional responsibility through the College of Policing; and returning accountability to the public through Police and Crime Commissioners.</p><p>The 2015 National Security Strategy confirmed that cyber remains a top threat to the UK’s economic and national security. The UK’s future security and prosperity depends on our ability to safeguard digital information, data and networks at home and abroad. The cyber threats we face continue to grow in scale and sophistication. This is why the National Cyber Security Strategy 2016-2021 is supported by £1.9billion of transformational investment.</p><p>Through the National Cyber Security Programme, we invested over £90 million under the 2010-15 Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response. The Government will continue to invest in law enforcement capabilities at the national, regional and local levels to ensure delivery agencies have the capacity to deal with the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber crime. We are increasing the capabilities of the National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit by increasing their ability to investigate the most serious cyber crime.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 19/07/2017 16:51:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

749291

registered interest
date	06/07/2017
answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept id	16
answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if the Government will make representations at the United Nations on international cyber attacks by advancing a policy of sanctioning any state actors found to be involved in those attacks.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	3528
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p>The UK will consider all options available to it under domestic and international law in responding to cyber attacks by state actors. For UN Security Council sanctions to be agreed, resolutions require 9 votes in favour and no P5 veto. We are also working with the EU on a 'Framework for a Joint EU Diplomatic Response to Malicious Cyber Activity', which will state the range of diplomatic, political and economic measures available to the EU and Member States to combat state sanctioned cyber attacks. This includes Sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Rutland and Melton answering member printed Sir Alan Duncan question first answered 17/07/2017 16:25:28 answering member 343 label Biography information for Sir Alan Duncan
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

746232

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
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 information her Department holds on whether the ransomware virus which began infecting computers on 27 June 2017 is able to bypass the patch released by Microsoft for all platforms from Windows XP to Windows 10.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>On 27 Jun 2017, there was widespread media reporting of global ransomware infections. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) are monitoring the situation closely and providing advice to the public and businesses.</p><p>A variety of tools are publicly available to help organisations limit the spread and impact of the attacks that have occurred. NCSC have issued guidance that can be found on their homepage at ncsc.gov.uk found under the title &quot;Protecting Your Organisation From Ransomware”. The NCSC constantly updates its advice in order to address emerging and existing threats.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 06/07/2017 16:40:05 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

746234

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will update the ransomware guidance from the National Cyber Security Centre.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The latest update to NCSC’s general ransomware guidance was published in October 2016. This has been updated and supplemented with specific guidance regarding the WannaCry global ransomware attack over the period 17th – 19th May 2017. NCSC guidance is subject to a regular review process and updated as necessary.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/07/2017 16:20:49 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

746237

registered interest
date	28/06/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of cyber security incidents dealt with by (a) GCHQ and (b) the National Cyber Security Centre in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	1758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>There have been 480 incidents requiring NCSC coordination since October 2016. The NCSC was established to simplify existing structures, bringing together the cyber security operations and information assurance arms of GCHQ, CERT-UK, the cyber elements of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the Centre for Cyber Assessment. Prior to NCSC formation, cyber incidents were recorded via differing means and to a variety of thresholds, and as such, previous figures are not available for comparison.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 03/07/2017 15:08:23 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

722943

registered interest
date	20/04/2017
answering body	Cabinet Office
answering dept id	53
answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met representatives of the US Administration to discuss possible threats to web security.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71434
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 71440 71441 question first answered 27/04/2017 10:26:09 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

714635

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
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 assessment she has made of the merits of creating a new criminal offence of the possession of illegally obtained information as a deterrent against organised cybercrime.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	69453
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/04/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 4 April 2017, UIN 69425.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis question first answered 24/04/2017 14:55:33 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

706254

registered interest
date	28/02/2017
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 February 2017 to Question 63350, what information her Department holds on the proportion of online fraud and cybercrime that goes unreported.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	66003
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the information on the proportion of online fraud and cybercrime that goes unreported. The ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales captures information on the number of fraud and cyber crime incidents experienced by individuals and also collects information on the proportion of these incidents that were reported to the police or Action Fraud. These data can be found on the ONS website (<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice#datasets" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice#datasets</a>) in the ‘Crime in England and Wales: Experimental tables’ – see Table E7.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 08/03/2017 18:02:34 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown