Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the cost to the public purse is of the Government’s Cyber Aware communication campaign.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Cyber Aware campaign is delivered by the Home Office. It is funded by the National Cyber Security Programme, which is administered by the Cabi-net Office.
The Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy is underpinned by £1.9 billion of investment.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to allow UK cyber security and threat intelligence researchers to protect organisations through the supply of threat intelligence.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) has undergone several amendments to ensure it keeps pace with the evolving threat, including most recently in 2015. The Home Office keeps the CMA under regular review to determine any potential benefits and drawbacks of legislative change, including through engagement with the cyber security sector.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made any assessment of the effect on the international competitiveness of UK companies as a result of the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Answered by Ben Wallace
The Home Office keeps the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) under regular re-view. No estimate has been made of the size of the impact of the Computer Misuse Act (if any) on the competitiveness of UK businesses.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home department, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of cybercrime to the UK economy.
Answered by Ben Wallace
Although estimates of the cost of cyber crime vary considerably, there are millions of individual victims, many thousands of corporate victims and correspondingly substantial losses. Therefore, whilst there is no robust estimate of the total cost of cyber crime to the UK economy it is likely to be billions.
The Economic and Social Costs of Crime report (Home Office, 2018) estimated a cost of £1.1bn from computer misuse incidents against individuals in the financial year 2015/16. However, it should be noted that this estimate is based upon experimental statistics and should be considered as a partial estimate as it excludes some key costs, such as the costs to businesses.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money has been accrued to the public purse from applications for citizenship from the Windrush generation.
Answered by Caroline Nokes
Providing the information requested would require a manual check of individual records which could only be done at disproportionate cost.