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Whitsun Adjournment

That is a very interesting and valid point but in any event, the existing law places a duty in relation to data protection that is not being addressed by many organisations, both in the public and private sectors. When there is a freedom of information disclosure, the person or organisation making that disclosure needs to be mindful of their other statutory duty and responsibility to people under the Data Protection Act. I have never heard that mentioned during the past weeks and months in relation to the disclosure of Members' expenses and so on, or to the big controversy about a Government Department's recklessly disclosing data. This is a serious point that we need to address not only in our own interests, but those of everybody else.