Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many (a) staff of her Department and (b) consultants have been employed in cyber security roles in each of the last five years.

In May 2015 the Cyber Security unit moved to DCMS from the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BIS).

The department does not retain details centrally that would allow us to identify employees who worked in cyber security roles so the information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.