Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of preparedness of schools in response to the risk of cyber attacks.

The Department is continuing to work with colleagues at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the UK’s authority on cyber security, to ensure there is consistent messaging to report all cyber-related incidents to Action Fraud.

We are currently working with the NCSC and third party providers to undertake a review of security awareness and implemented security controls across schools in England.