Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the Answer of 16 May 2023 to Question 184569 on Ministry of Defence: Data Protection, how many personal data breaches among suppliers contracted by his Department were reported to his Department in each year since 2010.

I refer the right hon. Member to the answer I gave on 16 May 2023 to Question 184569. As an update to this information I can confirm that 12 incidents were reported to the Defence Industry Warning Advisory and Reporting Point in 2023. The data provided only includes security incidents that have been closed and are not under investigation. So far in 2024 there are no incidents that have been reported, investigated and closed.

Information on incidents between 2010 and 2020 is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.