Question follow-through · 6135
Information Commissioner’s Office: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for complaints and enquiries to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for complaints and enquiries to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
While DSIT acts as the ICO’s sponsor department within government, it is an independent regulator and accountable to Parliament.To address their backlog, the ICO has introduced a new data protection complaints framework that sets out how it assesses and p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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