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Data Protection (Information Commissioner)

I am today publishing the Government's response to the Data Sharing Review and the response to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on the Information Commissioner's inspection powers and funding under the Data Protection Act 1998. The protection of personal data will always be a high priority and we know that...

Member

Lord Wills (Labour)

Department

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written statements

Date

24 November 2008

Reference

483 c38-40WS

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what the Information Commissioner's budget will be in each of the next three financial years.

Asked by

David Leslie Taylor (Labour; Co-operative Party)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 2008

Reference

482 c625W; 232693

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints were referred to the Information Commissioner in each of the last three years.

Asked by

Anne Main (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

221400; 479 c1967W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how much funding his Department gave to the Information Commissioner's Office in each of the last three years.

Asked by

Anne Main (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

479 c1967W; 221401

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Manpower

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many staff were employed by the Information Commissioner's Office in each of the last three years.

Asked by

Anne Main (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

221402; 479 c1968W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Freedom of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what recent discussions he has had with the Information Commissioner on the backlog of Freedom of Information cases being processed by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Asked by

Anne Main (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

221403; 479 c1967-8W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what steps his Department has taken to reduce the time taken by the Information Commissioner to process complaints; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Anne Main (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

221399; 479 c1966-7W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Powers

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice whether he plans to increase the powers of the Information Commissioner.

Asked by

Baroness Laing of Elderslie (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 September 2008

Reference

221234; 479 c1968W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Secondment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Answer of 14 July 2008, Official Report, columns 64-65W, on the Information Commissioner, what safeguards apply to secondees from Government departments to the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure they may not handle appeals relating to their departments.

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 July 2008

Reference

220533; 479 c1222W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

I am today publishing a consultation on the Information Commissioner's inspection powers and on funding the Information Commissioner's duties under the Data Protection Act 1998. The Government want to ensure that the Information Commissioner has the powers and resources to continue to be able to carry out his duties under...

Member

Lord Wills (Labour)

Department

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written statements

Date

16 July 2008

Reference

479 c27-8WS

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the Answer of 30 June 2008, Official Report, columns 683-84W, on the Information Commissioner, what steps he is taking to assist the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to speed up the processing of its caseload; and what consideration he has given...

Asked by

Dai Davies (Independent (affiliation))

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 July 2008

For answer on

7 July 2008

Answered on

14 July 2008

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is an independent body created by statute. Its responsibilities include handling complaints made under the Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.The ICO's freedom of information work is funded by grant in aid paid through my department. Separately, the ICO's data protection work is funded by the notification fees it receives when data controllers register with the ICO and which the Office is allowed to retain with the Treasury's agreement. Within this funding framework, as an independent office, the ICO has autonomy to decide how to allocate resources to discharge its statutory responsibilities.The Government are committed fully to both freedom of information and data protection. My Department and the ICO regularly review the resources available to his office and as part of that dialogue my Department provides constructive challenge to ensure that the ICO delivers maximum efficiency and secures the best value from the public money allocated for its statutory responsibilities.In each of the last four financial years, my Department has given the ICO additional funding for his freedom of information work. This year the additional funding represented a 10 per cent. increase on his baseline.In addition, the Ministry of Justice has promoted a secondment scheme to assist the ICO in tackling the outstanding backlog of freedom of information cases. Under the scheme secondees from central Government Departments, paid for by their Departments, will work at the ICO to assist with clearing the backlog. This was in response to the Commissioner's request for staffing as well as funding.My Department is also in discussion with the ICO about funding for its data protection responsibilities. Government have agreed to consider new powers for the ICO for data protection inspections and that the fee arrangements should be reviewed to ensure that new powers are accompanied by funding to support the exercise of these powers.

Date

14 July 2008

Reference

479 c64-5W;479 c62-3W; 217112

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner: Public Relations

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many press, marketing and communications staff are employed by the Information Commissioner's office.

Asked by

Oliver Heald (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 July 2008

Reference

478 c1308W; 215781

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the resources available to the Information Commissioner to investigate his workload of complaints promptly.

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

24 June 2008

For answer on

26 June 2008

Answered on

2 July 2008

The Government are committed to both freedom of information and data protection. An important part of that commitment is ensuring that the Information Commissioner is adequately funded to fulfil all of his statutory responsibilities. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) regularly review the resources available to the Commissioner and as part of that dialogue my Department provides constructive challenge to ensure that the ICO delivers maximum efficiency and secures best value for the public money allocated for those statutory responsibilities.The ICO's freedom of information work is funded by grant in aid paid through my department. In response to business cases presented by the ICO, in each of the last four financial years my Department has paid the ICO a larger sum in grant in aid than the amount in the original baseline for each year. In addition, my Department is promoting a secondment scheme to assist the ICO in tackling the outstanding backlog of freedom of information cases. Secondees from central Government Departments, paid for by their Departments, will work at the ICO on the outstanding freedom of information cases.The Commissioner's data protection work is funded separately through notification fees paid by data controllers under s.26 of the Data Protection Act 1998, which his office retains with the agreement of HM Treasury. In 2006-07, this was £10,200,000.As I made clear in my response to the Joint Committee of Human Rights' 22nd Report, the Government are currently considering the Commissioner's case for increased resources for his data protection work. This includes the recommendation of the House of Common's Justice Committee report ““Protection of Private Data”” (January 2008) that a graduated fee scale be introduced to replace the current flat fee that applies to all data controllers.My Department will continue to ensure that if the ICO is required to undertake additional or new responsibilities then these will be appropriately funded. For example, it was announced in November 2007 that the ICO would carry out spot checks of central Government Departments. The Departments being checked will pay the costs of the spot checks.

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

214470; 478 c958W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) what estimate he has made of the time taken by the Information Commissioner to (a) acknowledge and (b) investigate a complaint in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement;

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

478 c957-8W; 214469

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many complaints about (a) data protection and (b) freedom of information the Information Commissioner (i) received and (ii) completed investigations on in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

478 c957W; 214468

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

(2) if he will discuss with the Information Commissioner the prioritisation of complaints to him by hon. Members; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

214473; 478 c959W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

(2) what the average time taken was by the Information Commissioner to (a) acknowledge receipt, (b) institute action and (c) complete the investigation of cases referred to him under (i) freedom of information and (ii) data protection legislation (A) in the most recent period for which figures are available and...

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

214472; 478 c957-8W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) if he will discuss with the Information Commissioner the prompt acknowledgement of complaints from (a) the general public and (b) hon. Members; and if he will make a statement;

Asked by

Andrew Dismore (Labour)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

2 July 2008

Reference

214471; 478 c959W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 9 June 2008, Official Report, column 98W, on the Information Commissioner, what the longest period is that a case has been awaiting (a) investigation and (b) classification since the establishment of the Information Commissioner's Office.

Asked by

Oliver Heald (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 June 2008

Reference

213092; 478 c683-4W;478 c685-6W

House

House of Commons

Information Commissioner

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice pursuant to the answer of 14 May 2008, Official Report, column 1571W, on the Information Commissioner, how many cases submitted to the Information Commissioner have been awaiting (a) investigation and (b) classification for more than six months; and if he will make...

Asked by

Oliver Heald (Conservative)

Answering body

Ministry of Justice

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 June 2008

Reference

477 c98W; 208757

House

House of Commons

April to March each year	DPA and PECR	FOI and EIR
2005-06	22,059	2,713
2006-07	23,988	2,592
2007-08	24,851	2,646

	£
2006-07	5,550,000
2007-08	5,050,000
2008-09	5,500,000

April to March each year	Total staff (including part-time)	Full-time equivalents
2005-06	261	239
2006-07	256	236
2007-08	275	256

	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
	Received	Completed	Received	Completed	Received	Completed
DPA	22,059	21,887	23,988	24,084	24,851	25,592
FOIA	2,713	1,666	2,592	2,601	2,646	2,658

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