National Insurance Numbers (Hansard, 13 November 2001)

HC Deb 13 November 2001 vol 374 cc699-700W 699W

§ Mr. Clappison
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many surplus national insurance numbers have been removed from his Department's Central Index since 1997; and what plans he has to tackle the problem of bogus and surplus numbers. [7477]

§ Malcolm Wicks
The Departmental Central Index (DCI) Data Cleaning Project removed 100,000 surplus duplicate National Insurance numbers (NINOs) from the DCI between April 1997 and March 2001.
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To prevent the creation of further bogus and duplicate NINOs, the Enhanced NINO allocation process was introduced nationally from April 2001.