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 scam websites 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.

The National Cyber Security Centre's online form for reporting scams and suspicious websites, www.ncsc.gov.uk/scams, was launched in August 2021.

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