Question follow-through · 23553
Data Protection: Fines
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of sanctions available against organisations that incur data breaches when systems are found to be inadequate, particularly where sens
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- Answering body
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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- Mobile Phones: Broadhempston · 2 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the effectiveness of sanctions available against organisations that incur data breaches when systems are found to be inadequate, particularly where sens
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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23 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is responsible for monitoring and enforcing the UK's data protection legislation independently of Government. Organisations processing special category data, including health information, must meet additional co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Mobile Phones: Broadhempston
2 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to improve mobile signal in Broadhempston.