§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security to what investigations his Department has been subject by the Data Protection Registrar in relation to a suspected breach of a data protection principle; if he will summarise the nature of each complaint and state when the complaint was made; and what remedial action was taken by his Department to ensure future compliance with the principle subject to the investigation.
§ Miss WiddecombeBetween 11 November 1987 and 31 March 1993 the Department has responded to 15,094 requests from data subjects for access to its computer files. In this same period, 44 complaints concerning suspected breaches of data protection principles have been received from data subjects via the Office of Data Protection Registrar. The principles involved and the dates on which the complaints were made are in the table.
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Complaint type Number received Dates received Principle 1 4 21 June 1990 30 September 1991 8 June 1992 21 July 1992 Principle 3 4 7 March 1988 11 July 1988 13 February 1989 19 March 1991 Principle 4 1 12 April 1992 Principle 5 13 11 November 1988 31 July 1989 1 March 1990 5 March 1990 24 July 1990 18 March 1991 14 May 1991 20 July 1991 22 July 1991 29 July 1992 30 September 1992 27 October 1992 3 March 1993
Complaint type Number received Dates received Principle 7 17 3 February 1988 7 March 1988 3 June 1988 15 June 1988 22 August 1988 26 October 1988 26 April 1990 24 October 1990 20 December 1990 18 December 1991 13 May 1992 9 June 1992 6 July 1992 8 December 1992 25 January 1993 9 March 1993 19 March 1993 Principle 8 5 26 September 1990 26 November 1991 3 December 1991 7 July 1992 14 January 1993 In all cases the matter has been resolved to the satisfaction of the Data Protection Registrar and no changes to any of our computer systems have been made necessary in order to comply with the Data Protection Act.