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Written question asked by David Davis (Conservative) on Monday, 4 September 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 11 September 2006. It was answered by Lord Reid of Cardowan (Labour) on Tuesday, 7 November 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.


Departmental Databases

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which databases controlled by his Department have had confirmed security breaches in each of the last nine years.
Answer

[holding answer 11 September 2006]: In the last nine years there have been four confirmed security breaches of the IPS Passport Application system (PASS) and one confirmed breach of a HMPS legacy database containing life sentence management data.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
90864; 451 c1350-1W
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Home Office Hacking
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk