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

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many data breaches his Department has reported to the Information Commissioner in each of the last five years.

Data Protection legislation introduced on 25 May 2018 makes it clear that organisations need to report personal data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office where there is a high risk to people’s rights and freedoms following the breach.

The number of departmental data breaches that have been reported to the Information Commissioner during the last five years are as follows:

1 January 2015 to 31 December 2016: 1 case

1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017: 2 cases

1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018: 2 cases

1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019: 1 case

1 January 2020: 0 cases to date