National Insurance Number & consent: DWP say wider NINO use is no longer a NONO

Just published on Hawktalk: http://amberhawk.typepad.com/amberhawk

Government policy towards the wider use of the National Insurance Number (NINo) as a general identifier appears to have changed again. This ever shifting policy now illustrates that well know saying “What goes around comes around”…….

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Dr. C. N. M. Pounder

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