Business question from Edward Leigh (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 22 November 2007. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.
Business of the House
It is perfectly proper to have an inquiry into the breach of security at Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, but surely that should not be an excuse to avoid parliamentary accountability. I hope that the Leader of the House will agree to hold a topical debate next week, not least because the Public Accounts Committee has been informed that rather than this just being about a junior clerk putting the wrong disc in the wrong envelope, it went up, or was copied through, to assistant secretary level—we have been given the name of the official. Parliament should know about this. What is more topical than 25 million people’s personal bank details going out into the ether?
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- 467 c1342
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- 2007-08
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Child benefit Data protection Databases Personal records Revenue and Customs
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