Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to invest in law enforcement and intelligence agencies to help defend against increasing cyberattacks.

Tackling cyber crime and improving the UK’s cyber resilience is fundamental to our national security and prosperity.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Programme has boosted investment and expanded training to improve the law enforcement response to cyber attacks. We provide law enforcement with the necessary cyber skills and training at the national, regional, and local levels to ensure they have the capacity and expertise to deal with the perpetrators and victims of cyber crime. The National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), part of the National Crime Agency, continues to bring together law enforcement experts into a single elite unit and, together with the network of Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), provides access to specialist capabilities at a regional level.

We do not comment on United Kingdom intelligence community spending, but their work is a crucial part of our wider cyber resilience capacity.