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HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionI thank the hon. Member for that point, and commit to her that we are going to try to do that as soon as possible. She will be aware that the legislative process is already very…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I am happy to write to the hon. Member.24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Ms McVey. I thank the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge, for the new clauses in his name, which would…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank hon. Members for their new clauses; I recognise the strong feeling and thoughtful contributions about reforming the Computer Misuse Act. I speak first to new clause 18,…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for this amendment, which would require the Secretary of State to review how information sharing and analysis centres support the functioning of the…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right to recognise the shared sense on the principle of reforming the Computer Misuse Act. Although I am not in a position to give him a specific…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for moving new clause 5, which seeks to require annual reporting on progress towards meeting the recommendations of the National Audit Office’s report…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)Just—24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)My hon. Friend is right. Where the Conservative party did absolutely nothing and continues with its hypocrisy, I am glad to inform hon. Members that this Government have already…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I simply repeat my prior sentence: this Government have already adopted a duty to provide biannual reporting on progress against the recommendations of these two reports. In…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Member makes a very important point. We have heard of two major sources of risk from a cyber point of view: legacy technology and technology debt, and frontier AI…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)Sure. I would not wish to define it technically, but my understanding is that it is research aimed at ethical hacking. It is effectively trying to find vulnerabilities through…24 Feb 2026HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionI totally agree with the hon. Member’s call for urgency. I assure her that first, the Government will act by the summer in robustly responding to the consultation. Secondly, we…24 Feb 2026HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionIt is a pleasure to respond to this debate, not least to further my education in my personal passion area of parliamentary procedure. Let me begin by responding to the motion, and…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe for his new clause, which seeks to require a consultation on the resourcing and capabilities of regulators and regulated…24 Feb 2026HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionThe Government are seeing both urgency and responsibility in the correspondence that we are receiving and the consultation we are engaging with, not the desperate lurch to a…24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for his recognition of our shared approach on this question. Reform of the Computer Misuse Act is led by the Home Office. I have given my personal…24 Feb 2026HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionBut not today.24 Feb 2026HANSARDCyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill (Seventh sitting)The hon. Member has made that point a couple of times before. I am happy to write to him about the calculations, so that he is able to understand the survey and the significant…24 Feb 2026HANSARDOnline Harm: Child ProtectionI take the hon. Member’s point about wanting to work together. The Government are committed to doing exactly that. It is not a question of whether we act, but how we implement…24 Feb 2026