§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the derogations entered by the United Kingdom Government from the Council of Europe recommendations that pertain to the use of personal data; and what was the reason in each case for such a derogation being entered.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryThe United Kingdom has entered the following reservations. In each case the reservations were entered because the provisions in question were inconsistent with United Kingdom law, policy or practice.
Recommendation No. R(83)10 on the protection of personal data used for scientific research and statistics (adopted 23/9/1983): the United Kingdom reserved its right not to comply with the recommendation as far as it relates to manually processed data.Recommendation No. R(85)20 on the protection of personal data used for the purposes of direct marketing (adopted 25/10/1985): the United Kingdom reserved its right to comply or not with the first sentence of paragraph 2.4, the second sentence of paragraph 3.1 and with paragraph 3.3 as a whole.Recommendation No. R(86)1 on the protection of personal data used for social security purposes (adopted 23/1/1986): the United Kingdom reserved its right to comply or not with the second sub-paragraph of paragraph 1.2, the second sentence of paragraph 3.3 and paragraph 5.Recommendation No. R(87)15 regulating the use of personal data in the police sector (adopted 17/9/1987): the United Kingdom reserved its right to comply or not with principles 2.2 and 2.4.Recommendation No. R(90)19 on the protection of personal data used for payment and other related operations (adopted 13/9/1990): the United Kingdom reserved its right to comply or not with paragraph 3.3, 3.4, 5.1.c and 7.1.Recommendation No. R(91)10 on the communication to third parties of personal data held by public bodies (adopted 9/9/1991): the United Kingdom reserved its right to comply or not with principles 6.2 and 6.3 paragraph 2.