Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-05-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the Contact Point database was discontinued.

Mr Edward Timpson

ContactPoint was discontinued because it was disproportionate.

The Government believes it is unjustifiable to hold information on every child in England and to make it accessible to hundreds of thousands of people.