Question follow-through · 78604
Metropolitan Police: Subject Access Requests
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Metropolitan Police Service on the level of its compliance with its statutory obligations (a) under the Data Protection Act 2018 and (b) with GDPR in r
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions her Department has had with the Metropolitan Police Service on the level of its compliance with its statutory obligations (a) under the Data Protection Act 2018 and (b) with GDPR in r
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
Compliance with data protection obligations, including the handling of Subject Access Requests (SARs), is the responsibility of individual police forces. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) produces guidance for organisations on how to comply with...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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