12/19/2007 8:22:00 AM
FT; 19 December
The Tories have asked the European Commission to investigate the government's data blunders, as it yesterday emerged that Revenue & Customs lost the details of more than 6,500 pension firm customers.Theresa Villiers, shadow transport secretary, asked the Commission to investigate potential breaches of EU data protection law caused by the recent losses of personal information by the government, including the missing details of 25m people on the child protection database and the mislaid records of 3m learner drivers. The government's reputation as custodian of the nation's data took another hit yesterday after John Denham, skills secretary, revealed the number of workers covered by its "skills pledge" had been overestimated by hundreds of thousands because of a "computer programming error", David Turner reports .David Lammy, a junior minister in Mr Denham's department, had told parliament on December 12 that 3.1m workers were included in the skills pledge, after receiving the figure from the Learning and Skills Council, a quango. But the ministry said that two days later a check had uncovered the true number: 2.3m.FT
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