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Revenue and Customs: Data Loss

My Lords, the Minister has understandably emphasised on several occasions the complexity of the situation. Perhaps I may try to make his life easier by asking two simple questions. The first question is for a number and the second question is for an undertaking. If his briefing does not enable him to produce the number, can he ensure that it is put in the Library before the House rises tomorrow; and can he at least take the undertaking I am asking for back to his colleagues and report to the House early in the New Year? The number I would like to ask the Minister for is the number of occasions during 2007 to date on which, in total, government departments or agencies have had to report to the Information Commissioner the loss or corruption of or danger to information. The undertaking I would like to ask him for is that the Government will, from next year, make a ministerial Statement in writing—published in the Hansard of both Houses, weekly to start with, so we can see how we get on, and if the figures justify it we could then go to monthly—about every time that something is reported to the Information Commissioner, giving which department or agency has reported it, what is the information lost or corrupted and the circumstances in which that happened.