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Written question asked by Mike Penning (Conservative) on Wednesday, 19 December 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 7 January 2019. It was answered by Justin Tomlinson (Conservative) on Tuesday, 8 January 2019 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Children: Maintenance

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how long records of conversations relating to the (a) Child Support Agency and (b) Child Maintenance Service by phone or email with employers are kept.

Answer

The Child Maintenance Service is compliant with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Records of telephone conversations are deleted 14 months after the date of the telephone conversation. Email records are retained for the life of a case, and for 14 months after a case has been closed. Records are automatically deleted after this point.

The Child Support Agency is also compliant with GDPR in respect of telephone conversations and the same approach is taken to these as with the Child Maintenance Service, with automatic deletion of records 14 months after the date of the telephone conversation. Email records are not automatically deleted, and therefore manual action is taken to periodically remove these once they are no longer required for case-related activity.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
203832
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Children Child Support Agency Email Maintenance Telephone services Child Maintenance Service
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk