Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve (a) cyber security and (b) security of personal data in police forces.

The Government Cyber Security Strategy sets out how we will ensure that all government organisations - across the whole public sector - are resilient to the cyber threats we face.

While individual Chief Constables are responsible for their own cyber security and the security of personal data in their own force, the Home Office is taking action to support them.

This includes supporting Police Digital Service (PDS) through the National Management Centre, which provides dedicated cyber protection to police forces across the UK against cybercrime, and its Cyber Security Services, to manage the risk and impact of cyber security and information security threats for UK policing. Following recent data breach incidents, I have written recently to Chief Constable, Jo Farrell, Chair of the NPCC DDaT Co-ordination Committee, to seek assurance that all Chief Constables have sufficiently robust processes and systems in place to address any further cases of data breach.