"Mike" wrote in message
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> 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.
Subject access requests have a maximum charge of £10 regardless of how much
data there is. I have had one that was over two thousand pages of computer
printout and the data holder complained bitterly but they stll had to
provide it. FOI requests can cost much more.
Peter Crosland
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