Social Security Benefits: Data Protection
(asked on 22nd July 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what records are held by her Department of breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation which involved the personal information from claimants in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
This question was answered on 6th September 2021
The following table details the number of General Data Protection Regulation breaches involving customer information which were referred to the Data Protection Team.
2019 | 130 |
2020 | 419 |
2021 (up to and including 27 July) | 232 |