Defra privacy notice: National Fraud Initiative
Information on how your personal data relating to financial transactions may be used in counter-fraud and error data matching exercises.
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This notice sets out how we will use your data, and your rights.
Defra (including its agencies and public bodies) is under a duty to protect the public funds it administers. We may use the information provided by our customers and suppliers for the prevention and detection of fraud. Defra may also share this information with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds for these purposes.
It is made under Article or 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This privacy notice covers the:
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- Environment Agency (EA)
- Natural England (NE)
- Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Rural Payments Agency (RPA)
- Forestry Commission (FC)
- Forest Research (FR)
- Marine Management Organisation (MMO)
- Seafish
Last updated 25 August 2023 + show all updates
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Updated the address in the 'Contact details' section.
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Added Seafish to the list of organisations covered by the privacy notice. Updated the ‘Your rights’ section of the privacy notice.
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Added: Rural Payments Agency (RPA), Forestry Commission (FC), Forestry Research (FR), Marine Management Organisation (MMO) as the notice now also covers these individual organisations.
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First published.