Proceeding contribution from Lord Northbourne (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 20 November 2007. It occurred during Ministerial statement on HM Revenue and Customs.
HM Revenue and Customs
My Lords, the Chancellor was informed of this serious incident on 10 November. Does the noble Lord agree that it is a serious matter that the House has not been informed for more than 10 days afterwards? Secondly, I would like to add to the question of the noble Lord, Lord Newby, about all this information being passed around on CDs. While I am not at all a computer expert, that seems to be a strange way of proceeding. How many other unencrypted CDs are floating around the country? Thirdly, HMRC has been stretched in many ways—it has been entrusted with the distribution of tax credits and the former Chancellor has demanded 25,000 redundancies or job cuts by way of efficiency savings. Is it any wonder that HMRC is in such chaos?
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- 2007-08
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- House of Lords chamber
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- Child benefit Data protection Criminal investigation Bank services Fraud Personal records Lost property Postal services National Audit Office Security Resignations Revenue and Customs Courier services Gray, Paul
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