§ Miss Richardsonasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) when he will introduce a privacy law to seek to ensure adequate control met the use of personal information held by private organisations;
(2) what steps he intends to take to ensure that control of personal information stored in computerised data banks, as proposed in the White Paper "Computers and Privacy", will be extended to personal information stored in non-computerised data banks.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesAs to control over the use of information held on computers, I am awaiting the report of the Data Protection Committee. When I receive the committee's report, I shall consider how far such recommendations as it may make in regard to information held on computers might be applicable also to information held in non-computerised records.