The number of Data Subject Access Requests (SARs) relating to employees received and responded to by the CPS - 2021 to 2025
Request
Please advise how many Data Subject Access Requests (hereafter referred to as SARs) you received and responded to in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (year to date) relating to employees (past or present, indicating the number of employees who made applications when in post and after leaving the CPS) and other requests (e.g. customers, general public, service users etc
Response
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) does hold recorded information falling within the scope of your request and we have annotated your table accordingly:
| Number of SARs Requested 2021 | Number of SARs Requested 2022 | Number of SARs Requested 2023 | Number of SARs Requested 2024 | Number of SARs Requested 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees in post at date of request | 4 | 13 | 10 | 26 | 10 |
| Employees no longer in post at date of request | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
| Other (e.g. general public, defendants, witnesses, | 483 | 460 | 562 | 575 | 311 |
Please note the data caveats below when considering the above disclosure:
General Data Caveats
- This data set was collated and formulated via a manual search of the Information Access Team (IAT) database. The CPS does not collect data that constitutes official statistics as defined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
- As with any large-scale recording system, the IAT database is subject to possible errors with data entry, processing and the manual searches undertaken.
- The above data was recorded at the time of your request dated 1 June 2025.