Payouts for Data Breaches - FOI Response Register

1. To ask how much money your health board has paid out in compensation to i) patients and ii) staff, specifically following breaches of data, in the last five years.

1. £9000
2. £0

2. Could this be broken down by year, and the highest payment made in each year.

The number is less than five and in a small community providing this information runs the risk of identifying how much and to whom compensation has been paid.

In accordance with FOISA s 16(1), NHS Shetland confirms that it holds the information requested but that it is exempt from disclosure under FOISA s 38(1)(b) as read with s 38 (2A) as the information constitutes personal data and disclosure would breach the confidentiality of the data subjects