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Child Benefit: Personal Records

Volume 470: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals in HM Revenue and Customs have been formally disciplined over the recent loss of two child benefit payment discs. (180248)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals in HM Revenue and Customs have been dismissed following the recent loss of two child benefit payment discs containing 25 million personal records. (180249)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many reports have been received to date of fraudulent activity on bank accounts belonging to people whose details were included on the two compact discs lost by HM Revenue and Customs in 2007. (180950)

HMRC are in regular contact with the banks, financial institutions and other law enforcement agencies in order to identify any fraudulent activity relating to the data loss as soon as possible should it occur. None of them have reported any incidents of fraudulent activity attributable to the loss of the two discs that would lead them to suspect that the information has fallen into the wrong hands.