Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Data Protection
(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how many data incidents her Department (a) recorded and (b) reported to the Information Commissioner's Office in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.
2015/2016 incident management records show the Department captured 4 data breaches, 1 of which were sufficiently serious to report to the ICO. This was a loss by a 3rd party supplier working on behalf of the Office of Civil Society (OCS) collecting survey data.
In 2017 we introduced a more robust method of incident reporting. In 2016/17 the Department captured 8 data breaches of which 3 were reported to the ICO.