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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

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

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

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

514410

registered interest
date	20/04/2016
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 assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of (a) the Cyber Streetwise campaign and (b) her Department's policies on reducing the level of cyber crime.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	34921
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 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. Since its launch in January 2014, it is estimated that 2 million adults have adopted safer online behaviours that will better protect them.</p><p>The quarterly crime statistics bulletin published on 21 April , set out a 6% decrease in computer misuse crime (from 15,322 offences to 14,347 offences), during the year ending December 2014 to December 2015.</p><p>Cyber Security, including cyber crime, is a top priority threat to national security. The Government are continuing 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>Through the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP), we invested over £90 million under the last Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response. My Rt.Hon. Friend, the Chancellor announced in November that this Government has committed to spending £1.9 billion on cyber security over the next five years, including for tackling cyber crime. We will also publish a second five-year National Cyber Security Strategy this year.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 04/05/2016 15:57:28 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes previous answer version 57217 answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

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

437928

registered interest
date	14/12/2015
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 position of cyber crime in the published lists of priorities of Police and Crime Commissioners.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	19835
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2015 answer text <p>Decisions about setting police priorities are rightly a matter for individual Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), tailored to the needs of the local community, and for Chief Constables to determine the most appropriate response in their areas.</p><p>PCCs set the strategic direction and objectives of the force through the Police and Crime Plan which must have regard to the Strategic Policing Requirement (SPR) set by the Home Secretary.</p><p>The SPR, published in March 2015, sets out the national threats and the appropriate national policing capabilities required to counter those threats. It quotes cyber crime as a National Security Strategy Tier One risk. Section 5 of the SPR, on capability, sets out what the police will need to be doing in order to achieve various outcomes. It specifically states the capabilities needed to conduct complex investigations, including cyber crime, that require specialist resources, including the capability to do so across boundaries.</p><p>Cyber Security, including combating cyber crime, is a top priority threat to national security. That is why, through the National Cyber Security Programme, we have invested over £90 million over the last five years to bolster the law enforcement response. As the Chancellor announced on 17 November, we plan to almost double investment in cyber security, including cyber crime, to £1.9 billion over the next five years.</p> answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning question first answered 22/12/2015 15:02:18 answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning previous answer version 36264 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

437352

registered interest
date	11/12/2015
answering body	Department for Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Cybercrime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of making penalties for data breaches a criminal act in which negligence is involved.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	19721
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government keeps the sanctions available for breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) periodically under review. The Information Commissioner alreadyhas the power to serve a Civil Monetary Penalty of up to £500,000 for‘serious’ contraventions of the DPA.</p> answering member constituency Wantage answering member printed Mr Edward Vaizey question first answered 18/12/2015 17:02:55 answering member 1580 label Biography information for Lord Vaizey of Didcot
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

178573

registered interest
date	09/02/2015
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 police forces (a) have a strategy and (b) are properly trained to respond to cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	223891
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2015 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answers I gave to him on 14 January 2015 in response to questions 220035 and 220043.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 12/02/2015 16:00:15 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed

172574

registered interest
date	07/01/2015
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 steps she has taken to increase the number of police trained to deal with cybercrime; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Croydon North
tabling member printed	Mr Steve Reed
uin	220043
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2015 answer text <p>Cyber is a Tier One threat to national security, and the Government is investing £860 million over five years through the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP) to respond. Of this, approximately 10% is being invested in building law enforcement capabilities to tackle cyber crime. This has been used to build capability at the national, regional, and local level. We have established a National Cyber Crime Unit within the National Crime Agency (NCA), and cyber teams within each of the Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs). NCSP funding is being used to train officers in these units to investigate the most serious cases of cyber crime.<br><br>We are also delivering training in cyber crime to officers in local police forces. The College of Policing has designed four training modules on cyber crime aimed at police officers and staff, on cyber,digital and social media. Since they were rolled out in 2013, over 120,000 of these modules have been completed. The College and police forces have also been delivering a classroom-based course to police investigators, which gives them the understanding of how to exploit intelligence and evidential opportunities offered by technology, social networking and communications data.<br><br>Over the next year we will continue to build law enforcement capability to tackle cyber crime. This includes increased staffing levels and technical resource. As part of this, there will be a large expansion in the NCA's pilot programme of &quot;cyber specials&quot; – volunteer officers who have specialist expertise that is highly valuable to law enforcement – and an increase over the next three years to 80 volunteer cyber specialists in the NCA and forces across the country.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 14/01/2015 17:21:01 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley previous answer version 37954 answering member constituency Hemel Hempstead answering member printed Mike Penning answering member 1528 label Biography information for Sir Mike Penning
tabling member	4268 label Biography information for Steve Reed