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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

As my hon. Friend has indicated, I strongly support the action he is taking, but is it not the case that in many of those circumstances a criminal offence may well have been committed by way of a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998? The problem then is that custodial sentences are not available for someone who is doing that on a large scale and making a great deal of money by releasing personal information and committing a criminal offence.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
534 c825 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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