Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) data protection and (b) privacy safeguards are in place to ensure the security of (i) home addresses and (ii) other personal information belonging to people considered vulnerable to targeting by (A) hostile foreign state actors and (B) transnational repression activities, including those people with bounties placed on them by the Chinese Communist Party.

It is the longstanding policy of successive UK Governments that we do not comment on operational, intelligence or security matters. However, we continually assess potential threats to individuals’ rights, freedoms, and safety in the UK and are front footed in identifying and investigating such threats. Wherever threat is identified, we use all appropriate measures, including through our world class police and intelligence services, to mitigate risk to individuals.

Any attempts by foreign governments to coerce, intimidate, harass, or harm their critics overseas, undermining democracy and the rule of law, will never be tolerated and will be thoroughly investigated.