Data Protection
(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what information her Department holds on the number of serious data breaches involving special category information since July 2024.
Answered by
Stephanie Peacock
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, personal data breaches which pose a risk to individuals must be reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the independent data protection regulator.
The ICO publishes information on personal data breaches reported to it through its Data Security Incident Trends dashboard: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/complaints-and-concerns-data-sets/data-security-incident-trends/ . The Government does not hold information on the number of data breaches centrally.