Justice written question – answered at on 20 February 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many cases of (a) data loss and (b) breaches of confidentiality occurred in his Department in 2011.
There were 3,192 incidents involving information assets in 2011. This figure includes losses of data or the equipment holding it and incidents with the potential for breach of confidentiality. Of these, three were assessed as significant and were reported to the Information Commissioner.
2,606 of these incidents relate to individual cases of lost or misdirected mail. Data lost in 251 incidents involved official equipment subject to protection by encryption.
It is not possible to identify how many incidents involved breaches of confidentiality. This information is recorded locally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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