§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the hon Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy, Official Report, 19 June, if he will specify the practical issues still to be considered in relation to the handling of forms in the Welsh language regarding the Data Protection Act.
§ Mr. WaddingtonI understand from the Data Protection Registrar that the main issues concern the amount of supporting material to the registration forms that needs to be translated into Welsh; and the adaptation of the computer system for recording details of registration applications to enable it to handle standard descriptions and free text entries made in Welsh.