Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will promote an effective global institutional framework to counter cybercrime across frontiers.

The Government is committed to tackling cybercrime internationally, and has taken a number of steps to support international cooperation in this area. The UK strongly supports the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime which we ratified in 2011, as the main global framework for effective international cooperation to tackle cybercrime. The Convention is open to all countries, and we encourage them to accede to it.

The Government is firmly focused on developing practical cooperation and capacity to tackle cybercrime through existing institutions, rather than developing additional international treaties. The UK leads international efforts to raise global cyber resilience through our £2 million per year capacity-building programme, working with the National Crime Agency and multilateral institutions such as the United Nations, the Council of Europe and others, to strengthen the ability of countries to deal with the threat from cyber crime.