§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the Data Protection Registrar on the Data Protection (conditions under paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 1) Order 1999; and if he will make a statement. [107067]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienIn the course of consultations during the preparation of the Order, the Data Protection Registrar indicated her preference for it to include a requirement for data controllers to record the third party source of information processed subject to its terms, but that she was otherwise content with its provisions requiring them to provide data subjects with information and to record the decision-making process in cases where disclosure of information where a notice has been received from an individual would involve disproportionate effort. In considering the provisions of the Order, we concluded that a third party recording requirement would impose a burden on business disproportionate to any data protection benefits which it might yield.