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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 3:31 pm on 20 November 2007.

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Photo of Alistair Darling Alistair Darling The Chancellor of the Exchequer 3:31, 20 November 2007

All tax records will be the responsibility of HMRC, but there are procedures that lay down access to, or exchange of, information. That is governed by primary legislation in many cases, and by the Data Protection Act 1998, which has clear instructions on what can and cannot be done. There are also internal procedures. The inquiries that I announced today will look at those things. We need to make sure, first, that they are adequate to the task, and secondly—and equally important—that procedures are followed to the letter.