§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new national insurance numbers sent out have gone missing since January 1999; what action has been taken to investigate missing national insurance numbers; and how many missing national insurance numbers have been traced to asylum seekers. [121057]
§ Dawn PrimaroloWorking with the DSS we have in place a substantial programme of work involving continual routine activities and new projects, which between them aim to keep the risk and incidence of NINO abuse to the minimum.
This work will include rolling out the lessons from a pilot in Balham aimed at securing the gateway to obtaining a NINO.
In addition, we are also working with DSS to look at the way in which we manage accounts which might present risk.