Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what percentage of Subject Access Requests are fully answered by government departments within the legal time limit.
Answered by Dean Russell
The Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as Data Controller for BEIS is only responsible Subject Access Requests (SARs) processed by the department.
100% of SARs processed by BEIS for 2022 have met the statutory deadline set down in UK data protection legislation.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many subject access requests his Department has (a) received and (b) responded to within the statutory limit in the last five years.
Answered by Dean Russell
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has received 17,459 Subject Access Requests (SARs) in the last 5 years (01 January 2017 to 31 July 2022 inclusive).
All SARs were responded to within the statutory deadline set down in UK data protection legislation.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of staff in his Department work from home.
Answered by Dean Russell
The Department’s hybrid working policy states that all staff can only work up to a maximum of 60% of their time at home over a 4 week period, on the condition that business needs are prioritised. On average, most staff work at least 2 days a week, each week in an office. Last week between 3 -7 October, 16% of staff were working at home or on annual or other sorts of leave.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many artists have received royalties through the artist's resale right.
Answered by Jane Hunt
Artist’s Resale Right is administered by the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) and the Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS). Since the right was introduced in 2006, DACS reported in 2019 to paying out royalties to 5,424 artists and artists’ estates and ACS reported in 2020 to paying out royalties to 780 artists and artists’ estates.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support his Department is giving to customers of energy companies that have gone into administration to retrieve their personal data.
Answered by Greg Hands
When an energy supplier fails the customers are transferred by Ofgem to a new supplier under the Supplier of Last Resort process. This includes the personal data necessary to set up an account with the new supplier and ensure the customer’s credit balance with the failed supplier is honoured.
Insolvency practitioners are appointed to administer the failed company and must comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act in relation to any personal data that remains within the failed company. Customers rights regarding data protection and access to personal data remain unaffected.
Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he will respond to correspondence from the hon Member for Rhondda to the Green Deal team on 16 September 2021 and subsequent correspondence to his Department on 1 November 2021, 22 November 2021, 17 December 2021, 21 January 2022 and 25 February 2022.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department has no record of such correspondence regarding the Green Deal. The Hon. Member is invited to re-send the correspondence to the Department or direct to the Green Deal team at: gdconsumers@beis.gov.uk.