Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between John Hayes and Graham Allen

Monday 22nd February 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Hayes]

The hon. Gentleman will be disappointed that I am going to say that he is right to draw attention to the scale of this problem. I remind him that we were the Government who made the decision to publish these statistics and to designate cybercrime in the way that we have, because until we appreciate the scale of the problem, we will not develop the solutions necessary to deal with it. As he will know, we are using some of the extra resource to set up the national cyber centre to co-ordinate work in this area.

[Mr Graham Allen (Nottingham North) (Lab)]

8. What steps she is taking to encourage police and crime commissioners to support early intervention programmes; and if she will make a statement.