United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 64705
Offenders: Data Protection
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2 July 2025
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9 July 2025 · Answer
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9 July 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the effectiveness of the right to be forgotten in the Data Protection Act 2018, in the context of people acquitted of crimes.
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2 July 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the effectiveness of the right to be forgotten in the Data Protection Act 2018, in the context of people acquitted of crimes.
Source: Commons
9 July 2025
Answer
We have made no assessment of the effectiveness of the provisions in the Data Protection Act 2018 in respect of people acquitted of crimes. The ‘right to be forgotten’ is not an absolute right and whether there is a need for an organisation to retain data...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-07-02/64705
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1818989
- uk · wq-1818989 · source updated 9 July 2025