Question to the Home Office:

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.

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.

Law enforcement agencies currently can and do work in close partnership with service providers to remove illegal content online.

The Home Office is not aware of any MLA requests to seize domain names and IP addresses used to facilitate cyber crime.