§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many cases of computer(a) fraud, including fraudulent use of computer chips and (b) theft his Department has recorded in the last five years. [106216]
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§ Ms Beverley HughesOver the past five years there have not been any recorded cases of fraudulent use of computer chips, but the forty-seven reported incidents of theft include eight occasions when memory chips or like components were taken.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions on how many occasions in each of the past five years computer systems in his Department have been illegally accessed(a) within and (b) outside his Department. [106229]
§ Ms Beverley HughesIn the past five years there have been two known instances of illegal access to computer systems in my Department and its predecessors. Both occurred in 1995, one from within and the other from outside.