I will not be standing for election in the Scottish Parliament election on 7 May 2026. The Scottish Parliament is now in pre-election period. I will only be an MSP for a few more weeks. If you get in touch with me within that time period pleased be advised that I will be limited as to how I can help but if you have a significant issue, I will endeavour to take your case on, and work within the following remit around how to proceed.
I confirm the position regarding the casework information I hold which is likely to contain personal data of constituents over my time in office.
As explained in my Privacy Notice (https://www.rhodagrant.org.uk/) the legal basis for my processing casework information, including correspondence between us, in relation to matters raised is set out in Article 6(1)(e) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). This provision allows processing where it “is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest”.
In line with Paragraph 23(4)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 2018, I am permitted to use the time between the date of the election on 7 May 2026 and 6 June 2026 to manage my existing casework. After 6 June I will no longer have a legal right to collect or store any constituency casework containing personal data. Given this, my default position will be to securely delete all closed casework after that date.
To comply with fairness and data minimisation requirements I am highlighting in my role as a Data Controller to ask for consent to anyone for whom I hold information and what would like to happen to open casework. The available options include:-
- passing your casework to an incoming MSP if you wish them to act on your behalf
- securely deleting the casework (including destruction of hard copy records) if you do not wish to proceed further with the matter
- providing the casework to you so that you can take the matter forward.
If you want to have all or part of your open casework passed to the next constituency or regional MSP, please contact me at rhoda.grant.msp@parliament.scot
Any casework content will only be passed to you in line with data protection requirements, meaning that no information relating to third party individuals will be provided. This may mean that I am not able to provide you with your casework if I am unable to separate the two. I shall also need information from you to confirm your identity before providing any information to you as I can only provide personal data directly to the data subject (the person the personal data is about).
Please email Rhoda.Grant.MSP@parliament.scot advising how you would like your casework to be handled. Please note that you have the right to withdraw consent at any time in which event I will stop processing your personal data.
If I do not hear from anyone by 6 June with instructions on how to proceed with the casework, it will be securely destroyed.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely
Rhoda