Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of amending section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to allow UK cyber security and threat intelligence researchers to protect organisations through the supply of threat intelligence.

The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) has undergone several amendments to ensure it keeps pace with the evolving threat, including most recently in 2015. The Home Office keeps the CMA under regular review to determine any potential benefits and drawbacks of legislative change, including through engagement with the cyber security sector.