Information sharing with the Home Office
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
a) Please confirm whether the DWP provides any data to the Home Office on individuals for immigration enforcement purposes.
b) Please confirm whether the Home Office provides any data to the DWP on individuals for immigration enforcement purposes.
c) If yes to a) or b), please provide a copy of any agreement and/or policy governing the sharing of such data.
d) Please provide a copy of any agreement(s) or policy(ies) superseded by those that are currently in force.
e) Please provide a breakdown of the number of the individuals whose data has been shared by month since the current agreement or policy governing data-sharing between the DWP and the Home Office entered into force, or if there is no agreement/policy in force, since January 2015.
f) If there is no data-sharing agreement/policy in force and data is being shared on an ad hoc basis, please list the data items that are shared by each agency (eg name, address, nationality).
Yours faithfully,
Lara ten Caten
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Dear Lara,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received on 23rd of August as set out below.
We do hold information falling within the terms of your request; however we need more time to consider your request.
I wish to advise you that the following exemption applies to the information that you have requested:
Section 35(1)(a) Formulation of government policy Section 31 law Enforcement
By virtue of section 10(3), where public authorities have to consider the balance of the public interest in relation to a request, they do not have to comply with the request until such a time as is reasonable in the circumstances.
The Department has not yet reached a decision on the balance of the public interest. Due to the need to consider, in all the circumstances of the case, where the balance of the public interest lies in relation to the information that you have requested, the Department will not be able to respond to your request in full within 20 working days.
Accordingly, I hope to let you have a response by 19/10/2017.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number above.
Yours,
Central FOI Team
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