HC Deb 10 July 1973 vol 859 c328W
75. Mr. William Hamilton

asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will initiate an examination into the extent to which various Government Departments are using computers to record intimate personal details of individual citizens coming within their respective departmental fields of responsibility.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

An interdepartmental review of the categories of personal information held in Government computers and the rules governing its storage and use was carried out last year. The substance of this will be contained in a White Paper which the Government intend to publish later this year setting out their conclusions on the Younger Committee's recommendations on the safeguarding of computerised information and other aspects of privacy.