HC Deb 10 March 2004 vol 418 c1515W
Mr. Jenkins

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many(a)denial of service and (b)distributed denial of service attacks have been recorded on Government department and agency computer networks and websites in each of the last five years. [160058]

Mr. Alexander

IT infrastructure, including IT security arrangements, is the responsibility of individual departments. The information requested is not, therefore, collected centrally.

The Government have a continuous programme of work to identify vulnerabilities and prevent damage to critical national infrastructure, public sector networks and other inter-dependent information systems.