Dear Mr Blakemore

Information Request: FR1698a

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 21/01/2010. Your request has been dealt with under the Freedom of Information Act and is detailed below in italics with our response.

Your original request is detailed below in italics.

I request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the number of

Northamptonshire County Council Staff in Social Services who are

trained in regard to the Data Protection Act 1998, have been

trained in the last year and what percentage of the social services

staff does it represent.

I request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 a copy of any

exemption under the Data Protection Act 1998 that allows Legal

Services to retain files that are NOT subject to a statutory

retention period and well passed their recommended destruction

date.

I request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 how many times

Legal Services have failed to produce ALL documentation on a Data

Subject when requested by a member of the public under SARs request

with full permission from the Data Subject. Northamptonshire County

Council are the registered Data Controller under DPA 1998 so a SAR

should apply to all departments

Our Response

I have been provided with the following in response to your recent request.

The disclosure to you of the enclosed information does not give you a right to reproduce or publish such information without the express permission of the County Council or any other owners of the copyright therein.

If you are unhappy with the response, you can ask the Council to review it. To do this please write to the address below:

Paul Edwards

Head of Business Intelligence and Performance

Northamptonshire County Council

PO Box 93

County Hall

Northampton NN1 1AN

If our internal review does not resolve the issue to your complete satisfaction, you have the right to apply to the information Commissioner for a decision at the following address:

Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Or, if you have any complaints in respect of your information request please complete the on-line comments form that can be found at www.northamptonshire.gov.uk, along with a full set of guidance.

Yours sincerely

Gillian Hollowell

Senior Freedom of Information/Data Protection Officer
Legal & Democratic Services

Northamptonshire County Council

Please ask for: Gill Hollowell

Tel: 01603 237407

Our ref: FR1698a

Your ref:

Date: 17February 2010

Northamptonshire County Council

County Hall

PO Box 136

Northampton, NN1 1AT

w. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk

t. 01604 237407

f. 01604 237004

e. [email address]