Lisa Nandy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lisa Nandy on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many cyber-attacks there have been on the UK’s national energy infrastructure in the past five years.

Jesse Norman

In the interest of National Security we cannot comment on specific details of cyber security attacks. However, cyber security is one of the Government’s top national security priorities and BEIS is continuing to work with government departments and the National Cyber Security Centre, as well as with industry partners, to ensure that the risks to the energy sector are understood and that appropriate mitigations are established.