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HMRC Data Loss

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

469 c612-23 

Session

2007-08

Department

Treasury

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the progress report by Kiera...

Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 469 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) First, I want to reiterate to the Chancellor the sense of anger and betrayal felt by millions of peo...

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Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c615 (Link to this contribution) First, I am grateful to the shadow Chancellor for taking the trouble to write to me to explain why h...

Lord McFall of Alcluith | 469 c615 (Link to this contribution) When he appeared before the Treasury Committee, Dave Hartnett, the acting head of Revenue and Custom...

Vincent Cable | 469 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Chancellor for his courtesy in bringing us up to date? I hope that he appreciates th...

Speaker | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is time for the next statement.

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) As I said a few moments ago, I can confirm that various materials have gone missing from a warehouse...

Brian Binley | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor has confirmed that a theft took place from a secure HMRC store in Coventry. Will he n...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) I have many discussions with my colleagues about a range of matters, almost continuously.

Greg Clark | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) The whole House will be relieved to see that the Minister for the Cabinet Office is present, as he r...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) It is not possible to answer that question at the moment. What I will say is that I think it entirel...

Charles Walker | 469 c623 (Link to this contribution) Since this problem occurred two months ago, millions of letters have been sent to families apologisi...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) I think that I said on 20 November, when I made my earlier statement, that the data were password-pr...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) I asked Kieran Poynter—with, I think, general support—to take a thorough look at what had happened, ...

Richard Bacon | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) How long can it take Kieran Poynter to establish the answer to that simple question? Dave Hartnett, ...

Mike Weir | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor says that there is no evidence of attempts to commit fraud by means of the data. That...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree that it is important to put in place safeguards, not just for the United Kingdom Government ...

Sammy Wilson | 469 c621 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement but I am not sure that the public will be reassured that their personal deta...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the whole point of Kieran Poynter's inquiry is to find out all this information, and that...

Adam Afriyie | 469 c622 (Link to this contribution) Many of us in the House who have experience of information technology will know that removing a colu...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c621 (Link to this contribution) That is another case in which it would be best to get Mr. Poynter's conclusions and findings and the...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c621 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, the banks are constantly monitoring the accounts, and the vast majority o...

Anne Main | 469 c621 (Link to this contribution) When we had the dreadful new about the mess-up over the loss of information, we were reassured that ...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c619 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for what my hon. Friend said in the first part of his question. In relation to the sec...

Edward Leigh | 469 c619 (Link to this contribution) But some facts have emerged in recent weeks, have they not? We know now, for instance, that on 13 Ma...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) We do not know all those things, as I believe the hon. Gentleman well knows. The Poynter inquiry and...

Rob Marris | 469 c620 (Link to this contribution) May I thank my right hon. Friend for keeping the House informed? Our constituents get sick and tired...

David Leslie Taylor | 469 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) My 30 years' experience in public sector IT suggests that a prerequisite for secure, stable and succ...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c620 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that people get fed up of being asked for the same information by what t...

Julia Goldsworthy | 469 c620 (Link to this contribution) After the data loss, the Government set up a helpline so that those affected could discuss their con...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c617 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman's last point, I have some sympathy for what he says. I think that HMRC's inten...

Fraser Kemp | 469 c617 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Poynter report, particularly when it refers to committed people with honesty and i...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. As I said in my statement—and as has been acknowledged in the capabilit...

Michael Fallon | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) If the Chancellor is really arguing that seven serious breaches of security in the two and a half ye...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there was a breach of security at the weekend at an HMRC store. I say to the hon. Gentleman tha...

Lord Beamish | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) May I concur with my hon. Friend the Member for Houghton and Washington, East (Mr. Kemp)? Many of my...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) As I have said on many occasions, it is important to proceed on the basis of the facts to be establi...

Iain Duncan Smith | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding what Poynter may come up with, does the Chancellor recognise that, in years past, th...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c618 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman that the two issues can be conflated in the way that he sug...

Tony Wright | 469 c619 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is obviously responding correctly to a calamitous event for which he was not re...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c620 (Link to this contribution) No, Mr. Poynter will not be looking into that. If the hon. Lady would care to table a parliamentary ...

Lord Darling of Roulanish | 469 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what my right hon. Friend has said. I certainly agree that, as I said in my sta...

Subjects

Children Child benefit Data protection Databases Software Computers ICT Personal records Protection Privacy Social security benefits Security Revenue and Customs

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