Financial secretary to the Treasury Jane Kennedy has been summoned to appear before the Treasury select committee to answer questions on spending within the chancellor's departments in 2006-2007.

The hearing, scheduled for 9 January 2008, is likely to be uncomfortable for Kennedy, who will almost certainly be grilled on whether budget cuts at HM Revenue & Customs led to loss of the discs with the personal information of 25 million child benefit recipients.

Kennedy will be joined by Angela Eagle, who less than a year ago was a member of the Treasury Committee herself.

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