Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, how many data incidents his Department (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.

Neither the AGO or HMCPSI recorded any data incidents in 2015-16 or 2016-17.

The CPS recorded 183 data incidents in 2015-16 and 242 in 2016-17. Three of the incidents in 2015-16 were referred to the ICO and seven of the incidents in 2016-17.

The SFO recorded nine data incidents in 2015-16 and 17 in 2016-17. None of these were deemed serious enough to require reporting to the ICO.

The GLD recorded 63 security incidents in 2015-16 and 45 in 2016-17. None of the incidents in 2015-16 was deemed serious enough to require reporting to the ICO; one was reported to the ICO in 2016-17. The GLD does not specifically record ‘data incidents’ as a reporting category; the figures for ‘security incidents’ include physical and personal security, as well as information security.