§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why manually kept confidential records are not to be included in proposed legislative measures to ensure the confidentiality of stored medical data; and what steps he proposes to record police access to such records.
§ Mr. RaisonThe background to the Government's proposals for legislation to protect automatically processed personal data was set out in the White Paper published last April (Cmnd. 9539). A Bill will be introduced this Session.