Small Businesses: Cybersecurity
(asked on 5th October 2026) - View Source
Question
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of UK SMEs have been awarded Cyber Essentials certificates.
Answered by
Baroness Lloyd of Effra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
A total of 61,430 Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus certificates have been issued over the past year. The breakdown by organisation size is set out in the table below.
Organisation size (no. of employees) |
| CE certificates issued (past year) | CE+ certificates issued |
Large (250+) |
| 4,302 | 2,150 |
Medium (50 to 249) |
| 9,151 | 3,679 |
Small (10 to 49) |
| 16,237 | 4,801 |
Micro (1 to 9) |
| 16,555 | 4,555 |
Total |
| 46,245 | 15,185 |
We cannot provide a figure for the percentage of UK SMEs awarded Cyber Essentials certificates because the data collected on size of organisation does not differentiate between businesses and non-businesses.