Written questions

Manufacturing Industries: Cybercrime

Lords · Question HL11954 · Tabled 14 Nov 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 27 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Lord Wigley

To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the cost of cyberattacks to each subsector of the manufacturing industries for which they have data.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Lloyd of Effra, 27 Nov 2025

Earlier this month, the government published a set of independent research reports quantifying the impact of cyber attacks on the UK economy. While the government does not hold sub-sectoral data, the KPMG report Economic Modelling of Sector Specific Costi...