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HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI am sorry that the hon. Member is not happy with the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office always deals with FOI requests in the proper way. I have to say that trying to link Chinese cyber-attacks to our current Foreign…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyThe amount of spending compares extremely favourably with that spent in similar G7 countries around the world. I am confident that we have world-leading expertise, and we are…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI, or another Minister, will be happy to meet him. That is precisely why we set up the National Cyber Security Centre, which uses GCHQ expertise to inform our approach to cyber,…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyWe will certainly hold China to account in the way that the hon. Gentleman describes. I will happily make sure that the parliamentary authorities and the National Cyber Security…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyMy right hon. Friend is right to highlight the need for investment. That is precisely why, in the last spending review period, we put £2.6 billion into our wider cyber-defences. I…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyMy right hon. Friend is right to highlight that issue. It is precisely because of those concerns that we have ensured that the Electoral Commission is working closely with the…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyThat too is an important point. Obviously, any new technology or cars put on the UK market will have to meet our safety standards, and that will include an assessment of the…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI will take lectures from Labour Members on action in relation to security threats with a pinch of salt. It was this Government who introduced the National Security and Investment…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI trust and hope that we will achieve that outcome. I would like to assure Members that we have every confidence in the integrity of the elections. Through the defending democracy…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyMy right hon. Friend makes a concerning allegation, which I will take up for the Government, working with the House authorities. As she will be aware, we take the threat…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyYes, we do, on both fronts. My right hon. Friend will be well aware of our National Cyber Force, but I do not comment on the conduct of that from the Dispatch Box.25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyThe work is pretty much complete, and as soon as parliamentary time allows we will be bringing forward those measures.25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyThe Foreign Secretary has provided a full declaration of all his interests—25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyMy right hon. Friend’s views are well known to me, I genuinely welcome the constructive, at most times, debate that I have with him, but nobody should be in any doubt about the…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyYes. My hon. Friend is right to raise this issue. The first step is to properly understand where those vulnerabilities lie. We have undertaken extensive work to ensure that we…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyI thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions. I shall seek to address as many of them as I can. When it comes to Chinese motivations, ultimately, it is a matter for the…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyWith permission, I will make a statement about malicious cyber-activity targeting the United Kingdom by actors that we assess are affiliated to the Chinese state. I want to update…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyFirst of all, it is important to remember that ultimately—I want to reassure the House and the public—these attempts were unsuccessful. I am not being complacent; I am setting out…25 Mar 2024HANSARDCyber-security and UK DemocracyMy hon. Friend raises an important point. I pay tribute to the work that he has done in this space, and I have discussed the issue with him on many occasions. He is right that the…25 Mar 2024