§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many subject access requests under the terms of the Data Protection Act his Department has received; what was his estimate of the number of requests that would be 771W received; what consideration he is giving to the subject access fee charged by his Department as a result; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. RifkindForty-six valid applications have been received under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984; 45 were received from Scottish Office staff and one was from a member of the general public. For forward planning there was a working assumption of 500 requests per annum. I do not propose to review the access fee. There have been no complaints or other evidence that the access fee accounts for the low level of public interest.
§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what plans he has for regulations concerning the disclosure of anonymous poll tax data; what advice he intends to give to community charges registration officers on how to ensure that the identity of individuals is guaranteed; and whether he will make a statement;
(2) whether he will introduce legislation to prevent charging authorities from using community charge information for purposes that are not directly relevant to the management or collection of the community charge; and whether he will make a statement;
(3) whether he will introduce legislation to prevent a community charge registration officer or charging authority from disclosing community charge information for purposes that are not directly relevant to the management or collection of the community charge; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonI refer the hon. Member to my reply to him of 26 February 1990,Official Report, 26 February 1990, Vol. 168, column 76].