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<p>Under section 42 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), any person who is, or believes
that he is, directly affected by the processing of personal data, can ask the Information
Commissioner to consider whether the processing is likely to comply with the law.
On receiving such a request, the Commissioner is obliged to consider the concern and
make an assessment. Any such request, and cases taken forward are dealt with by the
ICO's customer contact and performance improvement business areas. The ICO does not
cost up S42 assessments separately from other data protection casework, but the total
staffing costs for these two business areas for the last five financial years are
set out below:</p><br /> <br /><table><tbody><tr><td><p>2015/16 (April-Nov)</p></td><td><p>£2,883,256.14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>£3,879,782.83</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>£3,969,104.17</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>£3,581,161.82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>£3,389,336.87</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
/> <br /><p>Numbers of assessments received and concluded for each of the past 5 years
are set out below:</p><br /><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial
years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number
of assessments received under s42 DPA</p></td><td><p>13034</p></td><td><p>12980</p></td><td><p>13760</p></td><td><p>14738</p></td><td><p>14268</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Number
of assessments completed under s42 DPA</p></td><td><p>14276</p></td><td><p>12725</p></td><td><p>14280</p></td><td><p>15492</p></td><td><p>15052</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
/> <br /> <br /> <br /><p>The recorded outcomes of those assessments are set out below:</p><br
/><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td><td colspan="5"><p><strong>Financial years</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outcome
of s42 assessment</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2010-11</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2011-12</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Not
progressed</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p>11%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>14%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Compliance
likely</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>21%</p></td><td><p>22%</p></td><td><p>19%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Compliance
unlikely</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td><td><p>31%</p></td><td><p>35%</p></td><td><p>34%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Ineligible/Made
too early</p></td><td><p>27%</p></td><td><p>36%</p></td><td><p>30%</p></td><td><p>33%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Reopened
- pending final outcome</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>No
Action for Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>35%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data
Controller Action required</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>22%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Concern
to be raised with Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>17%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>compliance
advice given to Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>10%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Response
needed from Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>7%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Complaint
not applicable under DPA</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>General
advice given to Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>4%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Data
Controller outside UK</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Improvement
action plan agreed with Data Controller</p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p><br></p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><br
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