HC Deb 08 March 1995 vol 256 cc181-2W
Mr. Neil Hamilton

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish the compliance cost assessment for the draft data protection directive as it applies to the United Kingdom(a) as regards the 1992 draft and (b) the draft agreed at the latest Council of Minsters meeting;

(2) if he will state the categories of paper records to which the draft data protection directive now applies; and what estimate he has made of the costs which this provision will impose on British businesses.

Mr. Nicholas Baker

A paper showing the results of a survey of the estimated cost of implementing the 1992 draft of the directive in the United Kingdom has been made publicly available. A copy of this paper was placed in the Library of the House last year. We have as yet made no estimate of the cost of implementing the present

Authority Home Office cash allocations
Shropshire 84,104
Southampton 11,422
Southwark 1,955,157
South Glamorgan 444,978
South Yorkshire FCDA 12,751
Staffordshire 924,043
Stockport 76,079
Suffolk 237,235
Sunderland 87,284
Surrey 291,845
Sutton 46,902
Tameside 585,940
Tower Hamlets 6,826,782
Trafford 242,981
Wakefield 296,729
Walsall 1,579,939
Waltham Forest 1,585,015
Wandsworth 1,369,800
Warwickshire 785,021
West Midlands FCDA 65,241
Westminster 1,498,548
West Sussex 212,623
West Yorkshire FCDA 95,651
Wigan 44,078
Wiltshire 121,565
Wirral 75,839
Wolverhampton 1,575,008