Question follow-through · 8965
Department for Work and Pensions: Subject Access Requests
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many subject access requests exceeded the statutory deadline in the last two years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many subject access requests exceeded the statutory deadline in the last two years.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2026
Answer published
During the 12-month period June 2025 to May 2026 inclusive (i.e. the 12-month period prior to the question), DWP completed 16,032 subject access requests within the statutory deadline. During the 12-month period June 2025 to May 2026 inclusive (i.e. the 1...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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