Written question asked by Tim Loughton (Conservative) on Monday, 12 November 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 November 2012. It was answered by Elizabeth Truss (Conservative) on Tuesday, 27 November 2012 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Pupils: Databases

Question

(2) what discussions he has had with Capita on the security of the data held by Capita on its One pupil database;

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Tim Loughton:

Answer: [holding answer 19 November 2012]: The Capita One system is not a responsibility of the Department for Education. It is a commercially available system that Capita provide to meet the management information needs of their local authority customers. The Department does not fund this system nor have we had discussions relating to data security.

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