The reward for getting back the missing data disks is £20,000.
There are 25 million records on the disks.
Which means each record is worth 0.08 pence to the government.
Make of that as you will.
[Big thanks to Leeky who pointed out that in my original post my maths were wrong – I think I need more sleep (and see the comments for the discussion) mea culpa.]
[tags]Datagate[/tags]