Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they will take to bring forward legislation to implement the commitments set out in the G7 leaders' statement on transnational repression, published on 17 June.

The G7 leaders' statement on transnational repression marks an important milestone in collaboration with international partners. It demonstrates the G7's shared commitment to building our collective resilience.

Focus has now turned to working with partners to implement the deliverables in the statement, including a Resilience and Response Mechanism to share information on joint responses, and actively working to counter the threat through initiatives like the Canada-UK Common Good Cyber Fund

The National Security Act 2023 is the cornerstone of the UK's legislative framework for protecting the democratic integrity of the UK against foreign interference, including transnational repression.

As set out in the Act, the legislation will be kept under review to ensure we can respond effectively to the evolving threat. For example, Jonathan Hall KC's recent review of counter-terrorism powers that could be emulated to tackle state threats, makes a number of recommendations where we could further strengthen our legislation, and we have committed to taking these forward.