Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many reports the National Cyber Security Centre received regarding email scams via report@phishing.gov.uk in each of the last five years.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) acts to remove malicious scams from the internet as part of its Active Cyber Defence programme. In addition to proactive identification and removal of malicious websites, the NCSC also acts upon reports from the public.

As the NCSC set out in its 2021 Annual Review, at the time of the report's publication, the Suspicious Email Reporting Service, report@phishing.gov.uk, had received more than 7.25 million reports from the public, with almost 60,000 scams taken down as a result and 112,000 malicious URLs.

The NCSC's pioneering Active Cyber Defence programme has also taken down 2.3 million cyber-enabled commodity campaigns - including 442 phishing campaigns.