Children’s Private Information: Data Protection Law Debate
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Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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Children’s Private Information: Data Protection Law
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Baroness Barran (Con)
My understanding is that that third-party provider is no longer trading.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Lab)
My Lords, can the noble Baroness confirm that a senior official on the board of the department, at Permanent Secretary or director-general level, was responsible for what happened? What action was therefore taken?
Baroness Barran (Con)
I have tried to explain to your Lordships that we did not have a centralised data protection function at the time of this breach. As a result, different teams had different policies across the department. That is no longer the case.