CYC data protection impact assessment (DPIA) screening questions

 

To check if you need to complete a DPIA, answer the below questions about

personal identifiable information (PII) e.g., personal data, special categories of personal data or criminal offence, conviction, or history data (COCH).

 

Ref number:

 

Name and Job title:

Zoe Dunn, Head of Housing Delivery

Date:

March 2026

Description - Explain broadly what you aim to achieve and what type of processing of PII and/or COCH this might include. You may find it helpful to refer or link to other documents, such as a project proposal, business case, specification etc.

Appoint a long-term Strategic Delivery Partner to deliver multiple housing and mixed-use sites; procure a client-side professional team; move from Passivhaus certification to the Homes England Healthy Homes Standard and Future Homes Standard for new affordable homes; approve site pipeline and delivery. The aim is to deliver at greater pace, scale and efficiency with affordable homes being high-quality, low carbon, accessible, and financially sustainable.

 

 

Yes

No

1

Are you starting a new project, system, policy etc that will involve the use of PII and/or COCH

 

x

2

Are you changing the nature, scope, context or purposes of existing processing of PII and/or COCH

 

x

Are you planning to carry out, already doing or changing any processing of

 

3

personal data

 

x

4

special-category data (sometimes called sensitive data or data of a highly personal nature)

 

x

5

criminal offence, conviction or history data

 

x

6

data concerning vulnerable data subjects

 

x

7

biometric or genetic data

 

x

8

PII and/or COCH that could result in a risk of harm in the event of a breach

 

x

9

PII and/or COCH without providing a privacy notice directly to the individual

 

x

10

PII and/or COCH that involves preventing data subjects from exercising a right or using a service or contract

 

x

11

PII and/or COCH on a large scale

 

x

Are you planning to or already doing or changing

 

12

use of innovative technological or organisational solutions eg AI

 

x

13

use of profiling to help make decisions on someone’s access to a service, opportunity or benefit

 

x

14

use of automated decision-making to help make decisions on someone’s access to a service, opportunity or benefit or other significant effect on them

 

x

15

use of systematic monitoring and/or systematically monitor a publicly accessible place e.g., CCTV

 

x

16

combine, compare or match PII and/or COCH from multiple sources

 

x

17

evaluation or scoring based on PII and/or COCH

 

x

 

If you have ticked any of the Yes boxes above, you need to complete a DPIA.  For advice and support, please contact information.governance@york.gov.uk 

 

If you have ticked all the No boxes above, send the completed screening questions to information.governance@york.gov.uk  and you do not need to complete a DPIA