The damning list of the Government’s failures to date includes the loss by HM Revenue and Customs of details on 25 million child benefit recipients in November 2007; the loss of details on 5,000 prison staff in 2007; the loss of unencrypted details on 21,000 patients at Colchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in June 2008; and the loss in January 2008 of 600,000 records on members and …[more]