Further Education and Schools: Cybercrime
Commons · Question 37450 · Tabled 11 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 7 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Luke Charters
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
Answered by Stephen Morgan, 7 Apr 2025
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...