Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 51369

Retail Trade: Cybercrime

Tabled: 12 May 2025
Answered: 20 May 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what estimate he has made of the number of cyber attacks on large shops in the last 5 years.

Answer

Feryal Clark
The government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025 estimates that 43% of UK businesses suffered a cyber breach or attack in the past 12 months, equivalent to 612,000 organisations. In the retail/wholesale sector, this figure is 32%. The proportion of bu...
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