Cybersecurity: Small Businesses
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what the (a) annual and (b) consolidated take up is of cyber essentials by small and medium sized businesses.
Answered by Feryal Clark
a) Cyber Essentials certificates awarded to small and medium sized businesses:
i. November 2023 to October 2024: 41,162, including 9,680 Cyber Essentials Plus certificates.
ii. November 2022 to October 2023: 26,674, including 7,966 Cyber Essentials Plus certificates.
iii. November 2021 to October 2022: 20,773, including 4,938 Cyber Essentials Plus certificates.
iv. November 2020 to October 2021: 18,136, including 3,694 Cyber Essentials Plus certificates.
b) From 1 May 2020 to 31 October 2024 (the period for which IASME Consortium have been government’s sole delivery partner for Cyber Essentials), 131,339 Cyber Essentials certificates have been awarded to small and medium businesses. This includes 27,217 Cyber Essentials Plus certificates.
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