Home Office and Revenue and Customs: Information Sharing
The question
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what correspondence the Government has had with the Information Commissioner's Office on the data sharing pilot between HMRC and the Home Office.
Answered by Josh Simons
In October 2025, the ICO Review Board observer submitted an inquiry to the DEA Secretariat regarding a news article pertaining to a data sharing arrangement between HMRC and the Home Office.
The DEA Secretariat subsequently contacted HMRC, who forwarded it to the ICO observer.
The minutes from the DEA Debt and Fraud Review Boards are also routinely published on GOV.UK.
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