By Louise Gray Environment Correspondent
THE confidential details of every farmer in England went missing for a year, the Government has admitted.
Cds and tapes containing the personal information of about 100,000 farmers including bank details, addresses and security passwords were unaccounted for since June last yea.
The lapse by the Rural Payments Agency was first noticed by IBM, which was carrying out a review of the agency’s computer systems in May.
The IT consultants informed officials at the Department for The Environment Food and agency after years of incorrect payments and a scandal over ‘obscene pranks’. Workers at its office in Newcastle took part in lewd behaviour that included smearing walls with human excrement.
Auditors fear the agency could cost taxpayers more than £620 million in fines and administration costs.
It was only when whistle blowers, frustrated by the failure to do anything about the loss, contacted Farmers Weekly that ministers or the public were informed.
It is not clear whether the tapes were lost in transit to Newcastle or simply mislaid in tan office in Reading.
Courtesy of Daily Telegraph
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