Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many (a) official and (b) official sensitive documents have been recorded as lost by his Office since 8 May 2015.

The Cabinet Office takes its data handling responsibilities extremely seriously and has various measures in place to identify, handle, respond and report (as and where necessary) to any losses of its documents or other information.

The information requested is not held centrally. All losses are assessed and responded to individually and on a case by case basis with all possible mitigating actions being taken and in full compliance of our legal and other responsibilities.