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Emails spark more data loss queries

Alistair Darling is facing renewed questions over his account of the loss of child benefit records containing personal details of 25 million people after the release of internal Whitehall emails.

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ELGAR AND DYLAN

23.11.07, 1:52pm

i wondered how long it would take you to blame it on the immigrants?

• Posted by: Ali_Malik • Report Comment

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ON 12TH NOVEMBER

22.11.07, 10:02pm

It was reported that around 5000 illegal immigrants had been given clearance to work as security staff in some of the country's most sensitive buildings.

The Home Office allowed the immigrants to take jobs at ports and airports, and also government buildings, even though they have no legal right to be in the UK.

It is believed that, among the thousands given work in security, some are with the Metropolitan Police. Some have been employed as cleaners at the Home Office and the man responsible for checking Gordon Brown's car for booby trap bombs is himself an illegal immigrant.

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Some might think its conspiracy to subvert the State, and present terrorists and fraudsters with the personal details of British citizens.

Others that the longed-for rainbow wonderland isn't far off now.

Either way, all you have to do is carry on voting for it.

• Posted by: Dylan • Report Comment

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LOSS OF VOTES

22.11.07, 8:04pm

The government don't care that the details of my people have been lost, they only care that this debacle may lose them votes.

Scoundrels.

• Posted by: GreenEngland • Report Comment

DATA LOSS COSTS

22.11.07, 7:54pm

Apart from the cost of £200 million estimated by the Tax Payers Alliance(who seem to have a better grasp of waste than this idiotic govt.) we now as the tax payer have to cover the cost of the inquiries set up by the govt. Why should we have to pay fat cats SELECTED by Brown to tell us what went wrong because you can rest assured no flak will be directed at this pathetic govt. If as suggested Darling intimated that the banks wanted this fiasco kept secret and the Banks assoc. deny this and copies of E Mails showing that senior officers in HMRC were culpable in this fiasco I would have thought that there is a possibility that LIES were told in the Commons by ministers. Don't let us forget at the next general election that this pathetic PM set up these changes.

• Posted by: Daveyboy • Report Comment

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SINISTER ANGLE

22.11.07, 6:00pm

This whole debacle has a sinister angle, how can we be sure this was a bungling officials incompetence?

There are so many illegal immigrants working in sensitive government positions in our country it is not unthinkable that it was an intentional 'mistake' or a criminal act.

• Posted by: Elgar1857 • Report Comment

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AND STILL....

22.11.07, 11:52am

We are not allowed an election.
Are we really living in Britain ?

• Posted by: millieC • Report Comment

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MISSING RECORDS

22.11.07, 11:18am

There are stll a lot of unaswered questions on this business.
Can we establish:

1), Just what data did the NAO request. It has been reported that they only asked for a limited number of cases without bank data so that they could run an audit trail.

2). HMRC are reported to have said that could not supplied stripped out data because it would be too expensive. I have never heard of a database from
which you could not select limited data.
Certainly I would not consider purchase of one without that facility.

3). The disaster has been blamed on Junior staff.
If the system allowed junior staff to download full data on to portable media the system must be shut down immediately until safeguards to prevent
this are installed. Costs must not be a reason for sloppy security

• Posted by: exnomad • Report Comment

PUPPET

22.11.07, 11:11am

One cannot squeeze blood out of a puppet.
It is plain obvious that nobody in Brown's government can say or do anything (wonder if that goes for breathing, too) without his permission. I'd say 'Go for the ventroloquist, not the puppet'.

• Posted by: Peter1 • Report Comment

TORIES RENEW MISSING RECORDS ATTACK

22.11.07, 10:01am

This was the third time data had been sent. What was done with the disks used for the first two data transfers ?

• Posted by: JohnSJ • Report Comment

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MISSING CD RECORDS ???????

22.11.07, 9:57am

I have just read in the Daily Mail that the password may have been in with disc`s as well if so ,?? so much for security for anybody

• Posted by: ANNR • Report Comment

MORE BUNGLING .....

22.11.07, 9:03am

Yet another show of bungling incompetence from this joke of a government and the idiots who make it up. I dread to think what new depths will be plunged in the months to come with Labour in power. Watch this space.........

• Posted by: jennijuniper • Report Comment

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