Departmental Databases

Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many electronic databases there are containing (a) names, (b) addresses, (c) bank details and (d) other personal information about members of the public within his Department. (170830)

The information requested is not held centrally and cannot be provided except at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) when each of his Department’s electronic databases containing personal information on members of the public was first created; (170831)

(2) how many staff of each grade in his Department have access to electronic databases which contain personal information on members of the public;

(3) how many times his Department’s databases containing personal information on members of the public have been accessed in each month of the last five years;

(4) how many times his Department’s databases containing personal information on members of the public have been transferred (a) physically and (b) electronically in each year since 1997.

The information requested is not held centrally and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Volume 470: debated on Wednesday 23 January 2008