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Home Office and Ministry of Justice employees have mislaid 3,492 passes since 2001, official figures revealed.

Between 2001 and 2007 passes went missing at a rate of more than one a day, the figures showed.

The Liberal Democrats, who uncovered the statistics, said the Home Office lost more than 2,000 passes between 2001 and 2007. The Ministry of Justice mislaid more than 1,200 in the same period.

Their carelessness appears to be on the increase. In 2002 just 169 passes were lost or stolen, but last year the figure was 675.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: "Everyone understands that things can go missing, but these figures suggest a culture of carelessness among the people responsible for our safety and security.

"On average, one of their employees loses their security pass every day.

"This Government wants powers to build a database of every phone call and email, but the evidence of lost security passes suggests they could not be trusted to run a nightclub door.

"They must scrap ID cards before they are allowed to treat our most sensitive data in the same slapdash manner."