New Clause 3 - Establishment of the inspectorate of data
Police and Justice Bill
1:00 pm
Hazel Blears (Minister of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety), Home Office; Salford, Labour)
The Information Commissioner has wide-ranging duties, responsibilities and powers under the Data Protection Act, including responding to complaints from individuals about the processing of their data, investigating the way in which data are processed by data controllers such the police, requiring appropriate remedial action from data controllers or instituting court proceedings, and encouraging the drawing up of suitable codes of conduct, often with sectoral application, for police and law enforcement authorities, for example.