A couple of weeks ago Steve Bassam asked a question in the House of Lords and Lucy Neville-Rolfe answered the question. The headline was Government Departments: Computer Viruses and the first few words that Lucy supplied were The government does not comment on issues concerning national security which seems very surprising. The location is available from here and the full words are below. As it happens so far one person has suggested it was questioned.

Steve Bassam: To ask His Majesty’s Government, over the past 12 months, how many individual devices issued by government departments have been identified as containing malware.

Lucy Neville-Rolfe: The government does not comment on issues concerning national security. The Government Cyber Security Strategy, published in January 2022, sets out how we will build and maintain our cyber defences. The strategy outlines how departments must be able to minimise the impact when malware is found.