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Data Protection

Volume 202: debated on Thursday 23 January 1992

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the Data Protection Registrar's work has dealt with the transfer of data internationally.

I understand that several of the registrar's functions include work related to international transfers of data, but the amount this represents could be determined only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is considering expanding the resources available to the Data Protection Registrar in response to the development of computer systems to exchange police and immigration data between states of the European Community.

It is not possible at this stage to assess the resource implications of any system that might in future be established.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the annual staff and administrative expenditure on the offices of the Data Protection Registrar from its inception to date.

The total expenditure of the office of the Data Protection Registrar, and the expenditure on salaries and wages, are set out in his annual reports to Parliament. In summary, they are as follows:

Total expenditureOf which salaries and wages
££
1984–85262,1648,578
1985–861,612,906273,865
1986–872,371,313615,991
1987–882,604,099680,866
1988–892,584,879825,932
1989–902,888,134947,777
1990–913,101,3231,166,112