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Sustainable Buildings
Mark Durkan: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many builders have been prosecuted for non-compliance with environmental building regulations in Northern Ireland in each of the last five years. [80952]
Mr. Hanson: Northern Ireland Civil Service Departments do not hold this information. Enforcement of building regulations is the responsibility of district councils. Having written to district councils, I can confirm that there have been six prosecutions for non-compliance of the environmental building regulations in the last five years.
Valuation and Lands Agency (Data Protection)
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment (a) the Government and (b) the Valuation and Lands Agency has made of whether the Valuation and Lands Agency’s domestic rates revaluation computer database holds sensitive personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998. [86823]
Mr.
Hanson: Information managers, at departmental and agency
level are responsible (at the appropriate
level) for the proper implementation of Government policies concerning
Data Protection and Freedom of Information
principles.
The Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) assesses its obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 on an ongoing basis. DFP, as required by the Data Protection Legislation, completes an annual notification to the Information Commissioners Office. Notification is the process by which DFP as a data controller informs the Information Commissioner of certain details about the processing of personal data, Those details are used by the Commissioner to make an entry describing the processing in a register, which is available to the public for inspection.
Business areas within DFP contribute to this process by undertaking a review of the notification at least annually when it is due for renewal or when a new process or system is proposed which may change the way personal data is handled.
The Valuation and Lands Agency assesses whether its domestic rates revaluation computer database holds sensitive personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 at least annually when the Department of Finance and Personnel reviews its Data Protection Notification. The Agency applies the eight Data Protection principles outlined in the Data Protection Act 1988. Assessment of data held is also undertaken when changes are made in process or systems within the agency.
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