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Written question asked by Neil Gray (Scottish National Party) on Friday, 8 January 2021, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 12 January 2021. It was answered by Will Quince (Conservative) on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.


Universal Credit: ICT

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people submitted a Subject Access Request to obtain additional personal information held on universal credit IT systems in January 2020.

Answer

There were 2153 Subject Access Requests received by DWP during January 2020; and those generated 979 contribution requests. We cannot immediately identify which of those 979 requests included Universal Credit records, as to gather this information would require manual intervention on each of the 979 cases. This could only be provided at disproportionate costs.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
134450
Session
2019-21
Subjects
ICT Universal credit
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk