Legislation / Legal
ICO: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of £140,000 on Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children & their carers to the wrong recipients on 5 separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland.
DH: The Government has outlined its plans to further improve the Health & Social Care Bill as it prepares to re-enter the House of Lords. Health Minister Lord Howe has now laid a number of amendments that ‘reaffirm the Government’s commitment to putting patients at the heart of the NHS and handing power to GPs & nurses’.
CSPL: The independent Committee on Standards in Public Life has published its submission to the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee which is currently conducting pre-legislative scrutiny of the Government’s draft Bill on the recall of MPs.
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