PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cybercrime (8 July 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many cyber-attacks have been conducted against his Department in each of the last five years; and how many of those attacks were successful.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

Releasing details about cyber-attacks conducted against the Department may be detrimental to the Department’s security. On this basis, I am withholding the information requested as I deem that publication would not be in the public interest.


Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
17 July 2020

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