Peter Crosland wrote:
> "Mike" wrote in message
> news:g09qrg$k5e$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> 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
>
>
You're right of course under the FOI act charges can be levied to cover
the full cost of providing the info.
Mike |