Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contingency plans there are in the event that his Department is alerted to online interference in the General Election 2017.

The UK voting system does not lend itself to electronic manipulation - voting and counting of ballots are manual processes conducted under the watchful eye of observers.

We have systems in place to defend against electoral fraud at all levels and have seen no evidence of successful cyber intervention in UK democratic processes.

As the UK’s technical authority on cyber security, the NCSC is set up to provide advice and incident management. Where necessary, these well-rehearsed incident response procedures, that are applicable irrespective of the nature of an incident, will be employed.