United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 80987
NHS: Cybercrime
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10 October 2025
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21 October 2025 · Answer
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21 October 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of cyber-attacks against the NHS since 2021.
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10 October 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of cyber-attacks against the NHS since 2021.
Source: Commons
21 October 2025
Answer
We do not hold data for the total economic impact of cyber incidents on National Health Service organisations specifically.Cyber-attacks can have a significant economic impact. The WannaCry cyber-attack in 2017 was estimated by the Department to have cost...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-10-10/80987
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1839912
- uk · wq-1839912 · source updated 21 October 2025