Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 37450

Further Education and Schools: Cybercrime

Tabled: 11 March 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Luke Charters

LabourYork Outer

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department holds data on the number of ransomware attacks against schools and colleges in the last three years.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Educational settings in England are responsible for maintaining their IT systems and cyber security. There is currently no mandatory reporting requirement legislation for schools to report a cyber attack and no central register of cyber attacks exists. Ho...

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