Question to the Home Office:

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.

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.