Question follow-through · 56203
Post Office: Data Protection
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Post Office has taken to prevent future data breaches.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Post Office has taken to prevent future data breaches.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
These matters are the responsibility of the Post Office, although the Department for Business and Trade has made clear to them the very serious view which we take of this breach and the need to avoid similar failings in future. The Information Commissione...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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