§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish the number of subject access requests under the Data Protection Act 1984 which have been dealt with by the National Identification Bureau, by police force area, for the years 1988, 1989 and 1990; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 11 June 1991]: information requested is as follows.
Requests submitted to NIB by: 1988 1989 1990 Avon and Somerset 29 47 369 Bedfordshire 47 336 311 British Transport Police 3 1 1 Cambridgeshire 21 17 26 Cheshire 163 225 391 City of London 8 5 15 Cleveland 8 6 49 Cumbria 3 92 7 Derbyshire 1 4 953 Devon and Cornwall 70 245 543 Dorset 5 10 28 Durham 4 2 3 Dyfed Powys 6 65 61 Essex 13 241 187 Fife 1 2 9 Gloucestershire 6 46 143 Grampian 6 8 5 Greater Manchester 68 138 236 Gwent 37 117 174 Hampshire 40 55 99 Hertfordshire 23 33 48 Humberside 157 755 697 Jersey 2 7 2 Kent 51 63 396 Lancashire 248 932 776 Leicestershire 7 13 32 Lincolnshire 9 14 207 Lothian 0 2 3 Metropolitan 395 1,094 1,609 Merseyside 24 43 47 Norfolk 4 15 33 Northumbria 55 62 77 Northamptonshire 8 7 11 Northern Constabulary 3 7 7 North Wales 2 1 10 North Yorkshire 20 382 212 Nottinghamshire 15 47 89 RUC 4 4 15 South Wales 152 1,294 1,892 South Yorkshire 219 565 780 Staffordshire 295 813 1,295 Strathclyde 12 12 15 Suffolk 7 58 210 Surrey 56 378 419 Sussex 49 130 175 Tayside 1 3 1 Thames Valley 103 176 276 Warwickshire 6 44 114 West Mercia 18 24 19 West Midlands 9 25 567 West Yorkshire 51 94 189 Wiltshire 4 18 36 Yearly totals 2,628 8,758 13,848