GCHQ

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:07 pm on 10 June 2013.

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Photo of Bob Stewart Bob Stewart Conservative, Beckenham 4:07, 10 June 2013

We are actually at cyber-war at the moment. Since the year 2000, the cyber-attacks on this country have multiplied some twentyfold. The Chinese held an exercise last week that they called a digital technology exercise at divisional level, involving men in uniform who are designed specifically to attack the west. Hacking can be far more deadly than a gun. May I encourage the Foreign Secretary and all his colleagues to ensure that GCHQ is as close to the National Security Agency as possible in the future?