Question follow-through · 82851
Cybersecurity: Research
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on legal frameworks to support legitimate cybersecurity research.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with her international counterparts on legal frameworks to support legitimate cybersecurity research.
20 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government is conducting an ongoing review of the Computer Misuse Act. As part of the review, we are scoping several proposals to update the act, including how we can better support legitimate cybersecurity researchers so they can operate within a cle...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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