Question follow-through · 37450
Further Education and Schools: Cybercrime
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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