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Written Question
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Data Protection
Monday 1st February 2016

Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, on how many occasions in each of the last two calendar years his Department has been notified by outside consultants or other third parties of breaches by employees or subcontractors of those consultants of document retention or security policies relating to confidential or secure materials.

Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone

The Department for Business Innovation & Skills was notified of 16 breaches by employees of companies processing data on behalf of the Department in 2014 and 4 breaches in 2015. The last breach reported by an employee of a company processing our data was in April 2015.


Written Question
Department of Energy and Climate Change: Data Protection
Wednesday 27th January 2016

Asked by: Stephen Phillips (Conservative - Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, on how many occasions in each of the last two calendar years her Department has been notified by outside consultants or other third parties of breaches by employees or subcontractors of those consultants of document retention or security policies relating to confidential or secure materials.

Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

No notifications have been received.