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Written Question
Wales Office: Disclosure of Information
Tuesday 18th October 2022

Asked by: Chris Bryant (Labour - Rhondda and Ogmore)

Question to the Wales Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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 Robert Buckland

My Department has received two subject access requests in the last five years. One request was responded to within the statutory limit. The other request was sent to my Department in error and was forwarded to the Ministry of Justice as the correct Department to provide a response.

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