Subject access requests: SSAC FOI response
Updated 11 December 2017
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1. Information request
Received: 19 September 2017
Individuals have a right, commonly referred to as a subject access request (SAR), created by section 7 of the Data Protection Act. I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information regarding your processing of subject access requests:
- How many subject access requests did you receive the identifying paperwork for and process in 2014?
- How many subject access requests did you receive the identifying paperwork for and process in 2015?
- How many subject access requests did you receive the identifying paperwork for and process in 2016?
- How many subject access requests you rejected in 2014?
- How many subject access requests you rejected in 2015?
- How many subject access requests you rejected in 2016?
- What was the average cost for you to process a subject access request in 2014?
- What was the average cost for you to process a subject access request in 2015?
- What was the average cost for you to process a subject access request in 2016?
- How much do you charge an individual to process a subject access request?
2. Response
Responded: 20 October 2017
The Social Security Advisory Committee, which is an independent non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, does not hold the information you have requested.