You asked

Please can I get the statistics for the UK's internet use per person from 2006 until present?

Please can I get the statistics for the amount of people in the UK who own at least one internet enabled device (e.g smart phone, tablet, laptop, computer) from 2006 to present?

Please can I get the statistics for the amount of cyber crimes (both dependant and enabled) that have occurred in the UK from 2006 to present?

We said

Thank you for your recent enquiry.

You have asked for information on the UKs internet use per person from 2006 until present and people who own internet enabled devices. Unfortunately we do not hold the necessary information to fulfil these requests. However, you may find the following link of use;

https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/itandinternetindustry/bulletins/internetusers/2016

In relation to your third question, we publish statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and the number of crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. Within these statistics cyber crime is not in itself a separate legal offence and thus does not form part of the offence list that is reported within the Official Statistics. However, there is some information on cyber crime available from both these sources.

The CSEW is a face-to-face victimisation survey in which people resident in households in England and Wales are asked about their experiences of a range of crimes in the 12 months prior to the interview. Experimental statistics on fraud and computer misuse were first published in July 2016 following the introduction of new questions to the CSEW in October 2015 and are available on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website at:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesexperimentaltables

The latest data relates to the year ending September 2016 and provides estimates for a range of offence types relating to fraud and computer misuse, including computer viruses and unauthorised access to personal information (including hacking), the large majority of which will be cyber related crimes by their very nature. In particular, Table E8 presents the proportion of incidents of fraud and computer misuse that were flagged as cyber crimes. Experimental CSEW estimates of the proportion of incidents of other crime types that were flagged as cyber crimes have also been published for the year ending September 2016 as part of ad-hoc analysis:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/adhocs/006663proportionofincidentsofcrimebytypewhichwereflaggedascyberandnoncybercrimesyearendingseptember2016csewexperimentalstatistics

The experimental tables also include some information on crimes recorded by the police that have been identified as cyber crime related. This information comes from a new system, introduced in 2015, of ‘flagging’ such offences in the police recorded crime dataset. These estimates were published for the first time for the year ending June 2016 and the latest data can be found in Table E10.

The police recorded crime dataset also includes a breakdown of fraud offences, some of which are known to be cyber related by definition. From April 2011, Action Fraud began to take over responsibility for centrally recording fraud offences that were previously recorded by individual police forces in England and Wales. The transfer to Action Fraud was phased over a two year period, with Action Fraud taking over full responsibility for recording fraud offences from April 2013.

The fraud types used by Action Fraud that, by definition, only occur online are outlined in the following list. However, it is important to note that these will not cover the full extent of cyber crime reported to Action Fraud.

  • Online shopping and auctions

  • Computer software service fraud

  • Computer virus/malware/spyware

  • Denial of service attack

  • Hacking

Again, the latest data relates to the year ending September 2016 and is published in:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

Data for earlier periods back to 2011/12 are available from the links below.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables/current

(back to year ending June 2014)

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-314526

(for years ending March 2012 and March 2013)

Please note that we do not hold data for the period 2006 to 2011. Also some caution is required when comparing these statistics over time due to the phased transfer of responsibility to Action Fraud between April 2011 and March 2013, and the move to centralised recording of fraud. Please see our ‘User Guide to Crime Statistics for England and Wales’ for more information:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/methodologies/crimeandjusticemethodology#user-guides