Question follow-through · 85767

Espionage: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for espionage in the last 12 months.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 28 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2025
Answer: 4 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been prosecuted for espionage in the last 12 months.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
From 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025, eight people have been convicted of espionage offences.These convictions were contrary to section 3 of the National Security Act 2023, section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 and conspiracy to spy offences cont...

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