Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department takes to ensure that commercial organisations which sell access to school websites and teachers' emails do so securely and responsibly.

The Department for Education provides advice to help schools understand their obligations and duties in relation to the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA).

This advice is underpinned by a supplier self-certification scheme which can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cloud-software-services-and-the-data-protection-act