Lord Mendelsohn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2016-05-09.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they are taking to support research and development to provide continually up-to-date defence against cybercrime.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The Home Office continues to work closely with police forces to ensure that we are best placed to tackle the threat posed by cyber crime.

Through the National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP), we invested over £90 million during the last Parliament to bolster the law enforcement response.

As the Chancellor announced in November, this Government has committed to spending £1.9 billion on cyber security over the next five years, including for tackling cyber crime.

The Home Office is also supporting the work led by Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh, the National Policing Lead for Digital Investigation and Intelligence (DII), to build capabilities to combat the full range of digital crime types. In addition we are providing funding through the Police Transformation Fund to support police led programmes to provide a step-change in digital capability.