HC Deb 19 November 1985 vol 87 cc103-4W
Mr. Pike

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he proposes to issue guidelines to local authorities about concessionary fare subsidy payments arising from the Transport Act.

Mr. David Mitchell

Regulations on the reimbursement of operators will be laid early in 1986, and we shall at that stage be issuing a circular and further explanatory notes on all aspects of concessionary fares schemes.

the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, which give recommended procedures to safeguard data in computer installations. Copies of these guidelines have been placed in the House library.

Manual files on individual members of staff are open only to the personnel officers responsible for those staff and to other officers with a "specific need to know".