Peter Crosland wrote:
> Hmmm....possible you could get it under the data protection act. The
> company can of course charge you a fee for providing the information.
> Anything up to £50 I've seen so far this year.
> Most companies I've come across with DPA charge only a pound or two,
> if that even. The expensive ones have been to do with medical stuff.
>
> DPA subject access fee is a maximum of £10. Freedom of Information requests
> have variable fees.
>
>
IIRC £10 is the 'standard' fee they can simply charge. If it costs more
than that to prepare or produce (print/copy/send) the data they have to
go back to the person making the request with an estimate before billing
and providing the data.
The DWP doesn't usualy make any charge for personal DPA or FOI requests
although it costs way more tan £10 to obtain, examine and copy files.
IIRC would consider doing so if the requests were deemed to be vexatious
e.g if they kept repeating the same request. Never seen it done though.
With regard to the original question - it's probable they've already
sent the report to the DWP so they'd refer the OP to the DWP as the
owners of the data. Even if they haven't ,they'd only be able to
provide a copy when they've prepared it so then they'd logically be
sending it to the DWP anyway.
Mike |