Law Commission consultation on burial and cremation

For information about how we handle your personal data, please see our Privacy Notice.

Privacy Notice

Under the Data Protection Act 2018 (formerly General Data Protection Regulation), the Law Commission must state the lawful bases for processing personal data. The Commission has a statutory function, stated in the 1965 Act, to receive and consider any proposals for the reform of the law which may be made or referred to us. This need to consult widely requires us to process personal data in order for us to meet our statutory functions as well as to perform a task, namely reform of the law, which is in the public interest. We therefore rely on the following lawful bases:

(c) Legal obligation: processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject; and

(e) Public task: processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Law Commission projects are usually lengthy and often the same area of law will be considered on more than one occasion. The Commission will, therefore retain personal data in line with our retention and deletion policies, via hard copy filing and electronic filing, and a bespoke stakeholder management database, unless we are asked to do otherwise. We will only use personal data for the purposes outlined above.

Freedom of information

We may publish or disclose information you provide us in response to our papers, including personal information. For example, we may publish an extract of your response in our publications, or publish the response in its entirety. We may also share any responses received with Government. Additionally, we may be required to disclose the information, such as in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. If you want information that you provide to be treated as confidential please contact us first, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic disclaimer generated by your IT system will not be regarded as binding on the Law Commission. The Law Commissions will process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 (formerly General Data Protection Regulation).

Any concerns about the contents of this Privacy Notice can be directed to: enquiries@lawcommission.gov.uk.