Data Protection (Hansard, 3 May 1988)

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether police officers who work with personal data used for a purpose associated with national security are instructed to ignore the code of practice which relates to personal data used for police purposes.

§ Mr. Hurd
The code of practice issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers explains the circumstances in which personal data are exempt from the provisions of the Data Protection Act.

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why a code of practice for personal data used for national security purposes, similar to the code for personal data used for police purposes, will not be introduced.

§ Mr. Hurd
For the reason I gave in reply to an earlier question from the hon. Member on 9 March at column195.

§ Mr. Cohen
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to seek to amend section 28 of the Data Protection Act to cover data gathered in the course of community charge collection.

§ Mr. Renton
No.