Departmental Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any officials in (a) her Department and (b) its agencies were disciplined or dismissed for (i) breaches of data protection requirements and (ii) inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data in each of the last three years for which figures are available. (205901)

The answer is provided in the following tables.

Home Office:

*Data protection breaches*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	0	0
2006-07	0	0
2007-08	0	0

*Inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	0	0
2006-07	0	0
2007-08	0	<5

Identity and Passport Service

*Data protection breaches*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	<5	<5
2006-07	6	5
2007-08	8	7

*Inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	<5	<5
2006-07	0	0
2007-08	<5	<5

UK Border Agency

*Data protection breaches:*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	<5	<5
2006-07	0	<5
2007-08	<5	<5

*Inappropriate use of personal or sensitive data:*
	Disciplined	Dismissed
2005-06	<5	<5
2006-07	0	<5
2007-08	0	<5

Criminal Records Bureau

Nil return.

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008