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Dealing with Subject Access Requests

The Data Protection Act gives people the right to see personal information which the University holds about them. They exercise this right by making a subject access request. As a member of staff, you might be involved in a subject access request in the following ways:

• You might receive a subject access request: see 1 and 2 below
• You might be a practitioner co-ordinating a response to a subject access request; see 2, 4 and 5 below
• You might have been asked to contribute to a subject access request being co-ordinated by someone else: see 5 and 6 below.

You have received a subject access request

1. Subject access request handling procedures (all staff)
2. Subject access request handling procedures (practitioners)
3. Dealing with a subject access request for references
4. Model letters pack

You have been asked to find information for a subject access request

5. You have been asked by the Records Management Section to search your business area's records
6. You are a member of staff who has been asked to search their emails and /or computer drive

Page last updated: Monday February 05 2007