§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what use of computers his Department is making in the storage and retrieval of personal and other financial data about farmers.
§ Mr. Anthony StodartThe only data stored by computers are those which are essential for accounting and financial control of payments made to farmers by my Department. None is personal. Computers also store information from the samples of farm accounts collected by universities in the Farm Management Survey. These accounts are completely anonymous to my Department.