Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to remove copycat third-party websites that re-sell government services.

In 2024 the National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) Takedown Service resolved over 2.3 million attacks of which 57,000 directly targeted HMG brands. The NCSC Takedown Service reduces the return on investment for attackers by removing sites and blocking any attack to infrastructure. As part of the Takedown Service, members of the public can report a scam website [https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams/report-scam-website]. The NCSC also offers a suspicious email reporting service which links into the Takedown Service, this analyses emails and when they are found to contain links to malicious sites, seeks to disrupt them. The email reporting service is report@phishing.gov.uk.