Prosecutions

(asked on 11th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many people have been prosecuted under the (a) Communications Act 2003, (b) Malicious Communications Act 1988 and (c) Protection from Harassment Act 1997 for offences committed online.


Answered by
Robert Buckland Portrait
Robert Buckland
This question was answered on 18th January 2016

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does not maintain a central record to show the number of prosecutions involving defendants prosecuted specifically for criminal activity on-line. This information could only be obtained by examining CPS case files, which would incur disproportionate cost.

Reticulating Splines