Mandy's staff on Facebook

PETER Mandelson's officials are allowed to log onto Facebook at work but Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon's staff are banned.

The different rules show Whitehall has yet to establish proper rules for the internet age.

A survey found that staff in many departments are allowed to save data to computer memory sticks without encrypting it.

The departments of Transport, Children and Families, and Health all failed to insist on encryption, while Lord Mandelson's Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and Jack Straw's Ministry of Justice, did.