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Written question asked by Jon Trickett (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 March 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 26 March 2018. It was answered by Oliver Dowden (Conservative) on Wednesday, 11 April 2018 on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

Electronic Government: Proof of Identity

Question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 13 September 2017 to Question 8509 on Electronic Government: Proof of Identity, what the average success rate for people using Gov.UK Verify for PAYE for employees: company car tax has been in each month since July 2016.

Answer

It is the policy of GOV.UK Verify not to track individual users, including the services which they access. Building a model that respects privacy is essential if users are to place and maintain their trust in identity assurance.

PQ 8509 relates to verified user identities. ‘Success’ in the context of verified user identities is measured as the percentage of people with a verified identity who are then ‘matched’ with the departmental service they are attempting to access. The matching rates vary for each service depending on the data held and the matching needs of that service. For some services, for example Universal Credit, it is required that the user must match an existing record within the service. This is not required for all services, as the user may not previously have accessed that service, for example claiming for redundancy payments.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
133598
Session
2017-19
Related items
Electronic Government: Proof of Identity
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Written questions
House of Commons
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Proof of identity PAYE Car allowances Electronic government
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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