Lord Mendelsohn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Mendelsohn on 2016-05-23.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of which sectors have (1) increased, and (2) reduced, their percentage of IT spend on cyber security between 2014 and 2015.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe
The Government’s recently published Cyber Security Breaches Survey contains figures for average investment in cyber security by sector grouping.
The full set of figures can be found in the table below and further detail can be found on pages 18-19 of the survey main report. There are no comparable figures for previous years.
Average investment in cyber security in last financial year by sector grouping:
|
Sector |
Average Investment |
|
Overall |
£4,060 |
|
Financial/Insurance |
£12,200 |
|
Information/Communications/Utilities |
£10,000 |
|
Administration/Real Estate |
£8,900 |
|
Retail/Wholesale/Transport |
£4,110 |
|
Construction/Manufacturing |
£3,090 |
|
Education/Health/Social Care |
£1,280 |
|
Entertainment/Services/Membership |
£1,220 |
|
Food/Hospitality |
£511 |
The ful Cyber Secuirty Breaches Survey is attached.
