§ Mr. Neil HamiltonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish the compliance cost assessment for the draft data protection directive as it applies to the United Kingdom(a) as regards the 1992 draft and (b) the draft agreed at the latest Council of Minsters meeting;
(2) if he will state the categories of paper records to which the draft data protection directive now applies; and what estimate he has made of the costs which this provision will impose on British businesses.
§ Mr. Nicholas BakerA paper showing the results of a survey of the estimated cost of implementing the 1992 draft of the directive in the United Kingdom has been made publicly available. A copy of this paper was placed in the Library of the House last year. We have as yet made no estimate of the cost of implementing the present
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Authority Home Office cash allocations Shropshire 84,104 Southampton 11,422 Southwark 1,955,157 South Glamorgan 444,978 South Yorkshire FCDA 12,751 Staffordshire 924,043 Stockport 76,079 Suffolk 237,235 Sunderland 87,284 Surrey 291,845 Sutton 46,902 Tameside 585,940 Tower Hamlets 6,826,782 Trafford 242,981 Wakefield 296,729 Walsall 1,579,939 Waltham Forest 1,585,015 Wandsworth 1,369,800 Warwickshire 785,021 West Midlands FCDA 65,241 Westminster 1,498,548 West Sussex 212,623 West Yorkshire FCDA 95,651 Wigan 44,078 Wiltshire 121,565 Wirral 75,839 Wolverhampton 1,575,008