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, how many breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation involving the personal information of claimants were registered by her Department with the Information Commissioner's Office in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 6th September 2021

The Department has registered the following breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation involving the personal information of claimants to the Information Commissioner's Office.

01/01/2019 – 31/12/2019

15

01/01/2020 – 31/12/2020

28

01/01/2021 – 23/07/2021

04

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