A Bradford councillor has criticised a high street bank after somebody else’s bank card, PIN and cheque book were sent to his home through the post.

Councillor Mohammed Shafiq (Lab, Bradford Moor) contacted Lloyds TSB after a bank card for a Miss Ilie was sent to his home – but his concerns were heightened when four days later the PIN also arrived.

He has now urged the bank to review its procedures after he was also sent the same person’s cheque book just three days later, on Thursday, February 16.

Coun Shafiq, who is not a customer at Lloyds, said he visited the bank’s Hustlergate branch in Bradford city centre earlier in the week to hand in the card and pin number, where he was told they belonged to a woman who lived at a different Bradford address.

He said: “How many customers could be the victim of their details or information being dispatched to other people? I would urge the bank to review their procedures as soon as possible.”

Coun Shafiq said he had no idea how the bank had his address as he was not a customer of Lloyds.

He said: “If this PIN and card had fallen into the wrong hands, they could have gone to the cash machine and withdrawn money. It is the fault of Lloyds TSB because they have one address on the system in Bradford and another address at the head office that dispatched the card, the PIN and the cheque book.”

The bank has apologised for the mistake and said the error was corrected after Coun Shafiq first contacted them.

A Lloyds TSB spokesman said: “We apologise to both Miss Ilie for incorrectly recording her address and Mr Shafiq for the inconvenience caused.

“We did correct the details as soon as Mr Shafiq contacted us and cancelled the card. The other items, however, did arrive at Mr Shafiq’s address because they were already in the post when the correction was made.”