Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what plans his Department has to record centrally the number of cyber attacks on public services.

The Cabinet Office does currently not plan to record centrally the number of cyber attacks against public services as each department manages incidents which affect the services they are responsible for. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), working with law enforcement partners, strongly encourages all organisations to report cyber attacks but this is currently voluntary for all such incidents. Those reports received by the NCSC are recorded.