Energy and Climate Change written question – answered at on 16 July 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what information databases his Department (a) maintain and (b) uses which contain personal information.
The Department holds a large number of databases ranging in size. These include corporate databases, access databases held by units within the Department and a large number of spreadsheets of data of which certainly the larger and more sophisticated could be described as fulfilling a database function. The vast majority of these databases and systems can be expected to a greater or lesser extent to contain personal data. It is not possible due to disproportionate costs to identify those databases which do not contain personal data.
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