Agenda item

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Consideration was given to the Senior Information Risk Officer Annual Report April 2020-July 2021, as contained on pages 263-278 of the Book of Reports which provided Members with an overview of West Lancashire Borough Councils obligation in meeting statutory regulation requirements relating to the processing of personal confidential or identifiable data, under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the Councils duty to be transparent through the compliance within the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Chairman invited the Finance and Audit Manger to present the findings to the Committee.

Comments and Questions were raised as follows:

·         Type of FOI requests received

·         Information already being freely available on the WLBC website

The Chairman expressed thanks to the Officers for their high performance in getting the FOI responses out within the guidelines.

RESOLVED:     That the Senior Information Risk Officer Annual Report April 2020-July 2021 be noted