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

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many data breaches his Department has reported to the Information Commissioner in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

The Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy was formed on 14 July 2016. Since that period, the Department has reported the following personal data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which met the ICO threshold for notification purposes:

2016 = 0

2017 = 0

2018 = 3

2019 = 1.


Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
17 July 2020

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