Question follow-through · 37300
Cybercrime
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle cybercrime perpetrated by police (a) officers and (b) staff.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Justice and policing
- Police: Disclosure of Information · 12 Mar 2025
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle cybercrime perpetrated by police (a) officers and (b) staff.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The auditing of police systems is a matter for local forces, who use bespoke IT systems to conduct lawful business monitoring. Forces’ use of such systems is assessed as part of His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services’ (H...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Asylum: Employment
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Asylum: Poverty
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Asylum: Housing
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Asylum: Legal Aid Scheme
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Visas: Ghana
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CIFAS
4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of individuals who are wrongly flagged by CIFAS each year; and what steps she has taken to prevent such errors.
Small Businesses: Fraud
4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of incorrectly applied CIFAS fraud markers on (a) small business owners and (b) sole traders.