HC Deb 03 July 1992 vol 210 c735W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many subject access requests were made under the Data Protection Act 1984 to the police national computer last year; and what proportion were to the criminal names index.

Mr. Charles Wardle

There were 18,293 police national computer subject access requests in 1991. Almost all were in respect of the criminal names index.