Another New Labour fuck up: Driving Standards Agency contractor Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd loses data in US.

More fuckwittery from the government, more lost data. Now after losing 25 million peoples data, you would have thought that there would have been a bit of a tidy up, a securing of data in all departments but alas no.

The details of three million candidates for the driving theory test have gone missing, Ruth Kelly has told MPs.

Names, addresses and phone numbers - but no financial information - were among details on a computer hard drive which went missing in the US in May.

It belonged to a contractor working for the Driving Standards Agency, she said.

It is the second time in a month ministers have apologised for a loss of data after HM Revenue and Customs lost discs containing 25m people's details.

So not content with losing data themselves, they hand over the info to a contractor who takes the data to the US of A and then loses it. Brilliant, just fucking brilliant.

Ms Kelly said the details of learner drivers had been formatted specifically to meet the security requirements of the private contractor, Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, and were not "readily usable or accessible" by third parties.

She said the details were not sent in the post - but the hard drive had not been found where it had been expected to be, in a "secure facility" in Iowa.

The information commission had judged the risks presented by the loss were not "substantial" and there was no need to notify each person individually.

**Seriously lets just issue the government with clown suits, red noses and stupid flowers that squirt water. Maybe Gordon Brown could replace his ministerial car for one of those clown mobiles that has the wheels fall off in a large puff of smoke?

Another day another balls up by New Labour.

Oh we have an excuse here from Stephen Ladyboy, sorry Ladyman who was the transport minister defending his decision to not tell anyone in May when the fuckup occurred. Oh Ladyboy blagged a total of £129,436 in expenses, nice to see that he costs the public that on top of his wages and still covers up cock up's in his department.

"Given that it looked in no possible way that this data had got into the wrong hands, the sensible thing to do was to wait until we had the results of the investigation.

"This was immediately before the reshuffle and before they could come back to me and tell me the results of their investigation, the reshuffle had taken place and I left office. My assumption was that they would come back and tell the minister who replaced me."

**In short he covered his arse and kept quiet hoping it would all be buried.

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