| Heading: |
Social Security Benefits: Bank Services |
| Question ID: |
1745247 |
| UIN: |
16702 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-27 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5361 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James McMurdock
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
James McMurdock
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department plans to take to ensure the safe storage of data collected from benefit claimants’ bank accounts. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-04 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Answer text: |
The Eligibility Verification Measure (EVM) in the proposed Fraud, Error and Debt Bill will require banks and financial institutions to look within their own data to highlight where someone may not be eligible for the benefits they are receiving. Banks wil... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |