Question follow-through · 26862
Personal Records: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of personal data breaches in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of trends in the number of personal data breaches in each of the last five years.
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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10 Sept 2026
Answer published
DCMS is now monitoring personal data breach trends through departmental reporting, cross-government assurance activity and engagement with the ICO. Government has introduced the Model Action Plan for significant personal data breaches to strengthen oversi...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
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