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Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of introducing encryption backdoors for use by the Government on the risk of the exploitation of those backdoors by (a) foreign st

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 24 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 26 Feb 2025
Answer: 4 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of introducing encryption backdoors for use by the Government on the risk of the exploitation of those backdoors by (a) foreign st
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not comment on operational matters, including for example confirming or denying the existence of any notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.The UK has a longstand...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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