Government Departments: Data Protection
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Synergy shared services programme on data security.
Answered by Andrew Western
Synergy places the utmost importance on data security and has contractual conditions with suppliers to specify its data remains in the control of the UK Government. The Synergy team works closely with the data protection and security experts in the Synergy departments (DWP, DEFRA, MOJ and Home Office). This is an ongoing process and assessment of data security readiness is an essential part of testing before going live.
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