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Secure information request response tool information sheet

Information sheet to help prepare applicants for receiving a response to an information request, where it is being provided through our secure document store in Microsoft’s Office 365 SharePoint application.

We use a secure document store in Microsoft’s Office 365 SharePoint application to respond to subject access requests made under data protection legislation, and sometimes other sorts of information requests. Our information sheet for applicants explains how the tool works.

About this guidance

Version control Author/Editor Date Edits made
1 IS Applications/Sara Cranston 25 June 2018

 

2 Sara Cranston 13 July 2018 Updates to wording
3 Sara Cranston 16 July 2018 Amended link
4 Sara Cranston 23 July 2018 Added section on paper format
5 James Macfarlane 25 March 2019 Updated wording
6 James Macfarlane 28 May 2019 Updated wording and added mobile browser issue
7 Rob Don 23 June 2022 Updated wording