Numbercrunching the Child Benefit Data Loss: Request for Clarification
I’d trying to clarify a point on the numbers about the Child Benefit data loss.
When I wrote my first article on this - two hours before Mr Darling’s Commons statement, the BBC were reporting that 15 million child benefit records had been compromised. See the Radio 5 report in that post.
By the time the statement came out that has changed to 25 million individuals in 7.25 million families.
Does anyone have the detailed stats on the relationship between those numbers for the avoidance of confusion?
Jock Coats kindly provides clarification in the comments:
In one of the news articles I heard that it was 15m children’s details and 10m adults in 7.25m households.
Thanks.
Tags: alistair darling, child benefit data lost, hmrc, inland revenue
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Article Series - HMRC - Child Benefit Data Lost
- FIFTEEN MILLION Child Benefit Records lost by Inland Revenue and Customs
- Revenue-Gate, or Revenue Cultural Problem?
- Audio of Statement about Loss of Child Benefit Data by Revenue and Customs: Alistair Darling MP’
- God (and security) is in the Detail of the Business Systems: Child Benefit Data Loss
- Statement to the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, MP, on HMRC
- Systematic or Incidental Failure?: Hot Issue of the Day: Child Benefit Data Loss
- Numbercrunching the Child Benefit Data Loss: Request for Clarification
- A week is a long time in the Inland Revenue … : Hot Issue of the Week
Yeah - on one of the news articles I heard that it was 15m children’s details and 10m adults in 7.25m households.
Jock - thanks for the clarification.