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Debate between Alan Mak and Helen Whately
Thursday 21st June 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Mak Portrait Alan Mak (Havant) (Con)
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5. What the Government’s policy is on the role of international law in relation to cyber-space.

Helen Whately Portrait Helen Whately (Faversham and Mid Kent) (Con)
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7. What the Government’s policy is on the role of international law in relation to cyber-space.

Jeremy Wright Portrait The Attorney General (Jeremy Wright)
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Cyber-space is an integral part of the rules-based international order, and there must be boundaries of acceptable state behaviour in cyber-space, just as there are everywhere else. In my speech on this subject at Chatham House on 23 May, I underlined that hostile actors cannot take action by cyber means without consequence, both in peacetime and in times of conflict.

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