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Data and Records guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
Find out whether your biometric data is likely to be on a police database - fingerprints, DNA sample, kept after arrest, crime, conviction
Share your reference data for use in projects and services outside your organisation.
How to make sure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
Find out what records you must keep about trusts for tax purposes, who can access your information, and what to do if your records are lost or destroyed.
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
You're required to keep records for all traded goods you declare to HMRC for four years, for duty and tax purposes and for government statistics.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
Personal data an employer can keep about an employee, and employee rights to see this information under data protection rules
Employment agencies and businesses must keep proper records and can be inspected by the Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate; the records you must keep, how long to store them and what happens if you're inspected
Find out what records you must keep and how to keep them if you're registered for VAT.
Access HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) data. For example to support academic research, or the development or evaluation of policy and services.
Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
How to prepare and analyse the data you collected for your evaluation.
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