Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Cabinet Office, whether any indirect attempts have been made by Russia to interfere in the UK's democratic processes in each of the last three years.

The Government has said previously that we have not seen evidence of successful foreign

interference in UK elections and we take any allegations of interference in UK democratic

processes by a foreign government extremely seriously. That remains the case. We know

that certain states routinely use disinformation and other means as a foreign policy tool,

and have seen evidence of this happening elsewhere. It should therefore not surprise us

that they might try to influence democratic processes in the UK.