Member

I shall give a few examples. Police, prosecutors or the NHS have exposed personal address details of victims of abuse, or witnesses to crime, to their abusers or those they were accusing, creating immediate personal and physical risks. In one example, the person affected had to move house. In another example, patients of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust did not receive medical treatment for up to two years. Two police authorities, West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police, lost the detailed records of investigations they had made, which could have impacted prosecutions or caused potential miscarriages of justice. Two police authorities, Sussex Police and Surrey Police, recorded the conversations of hundreds of thousands of individuals without their consent. There were also persistent failures by two police authorities and three local authorities to respond to subject access requests in a timely period over periods of up to five years.