Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what progress is being made on the Government's aim to provide automated protections for Government online services to the citizen as set out in paragraph 5.1.3 of the Government's National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 to 2021.

The government's Active Cyber Defence (ACD) programme has launched, with four key services already used by Departments to protect their online services. This in turn protects the citizen by reducing the risk of malicious content reaching victims, such as email fraud from criminals posing as government departments. The ACD programme is also working with the private sector to actively take down phishing sites, which will also reduce the likelihood of the citizen being tricked by criminals online.