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Kinship Care: Data Protection

Commons · Question 12863 · Tabled 24 Jun 2026 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 3 Jul 2026

Question

Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to act as (a) data controller, (b) joint controller and (c) processor in respect of personal data generated, linked, stored, analysed and processed under the consistent identifier f

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 3 Jul 2026

The department is not required to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) because personal data will be processed locally. Should this change, the department will conduct and publish a DPIA.To date, pilot data has been processed locally. The n...