Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the gender breakdown is of the young people who have completed the Government's CyberFirst programme.

The CyberFirst programme covers a range of activities; a bursary scheme, girls only competition and development events for students aged between 11-17 years. For the CyberFirst bursary programme 2016/2017 the gender breakdown was 21% female, 79% male. The 2017/2018 campaign is still ongoing but of those candidates that have applied so far, 23% are female. 43% of attendees at 2017 CyberFirst development events were female.