Departmental Data Protection
International Development
Hansard source (Citation: HC Deb, 6 March 2012, c690W)
David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will publish details of what data without a security classification was lost during 2011.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
The Department for International Development (DFID) lost six mobile phones containing unclassified data (mainly contact information), during 2011. No data were lost because the devices were password protected and encrypted.
Unclassified information was also lost when the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) security was compromised in June 2011. This resulted in 94 unclassified DFID documents being compromised. The data were draft documentation relating to stress testing undertaken by the IMF, which has since been published. Some IMF Standards Assessors had parts of their drafting compromised, but not full documents. The partial information was considered to be useless to the uninformed reader.
