Chamber and committees

May I clarify that the blue badge issue is not really about fraud—because you have not proven any fraud—but more about the fact that passes have not been cancelled after someone’s death? There is no evidence to suggest that the badges continue to be used.

Depending on the classification of the data that you send, an investigation by the DWP will then be triggered.

Good morning to the witnesses. The report states that 127 public bodies participated in the 2022-23 NFI exercise, compared with 132 public bodies in 2021. Do you know why there has been a slight reduction in the number of public bodies taking part?

You talked earlier about mandated and voluntary organisations, so I take it that there are some mandated organisations.

Okay. In that case, their participation is voluntary.

We note that, although you are working with several interested housing associations, it is unclear how many will participate. How many have volunteered to participate in the next exercise?

I have a final question based on that response. For how long have you been trying to get this GDPR issue sorted?

Why would you include them in one report and not in another?

Who decides that it is okay for universities to choose whether to volunteer to participate? As public bodies that are paid for by public funds, why should they not be part of this exercise?

I suppose that that is the question that I am asking: why are universities not part of the mandated group?

So it is a case of the dots not really being joined up, then.