Question follow-through · 12830
Business: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking with the Information Commissioner's Office to increase business registration compliance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 3 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking with the Information Commissioner's Office to increase business registration compliance.
29 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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3 Jul 2026
Answer published
The ICO regularly promotes the requirement for eligible businesses to register and pay the data protection fee. This includes using publicly available company information to send 800,000 letters annually to prompt organisations who may be required to pay....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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