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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 December 2024

Debate

Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]

Contribution

I come to Amendment 144. The Information Commissioner’s Office has a poor track record on enforcement. In 2021-22, it did not serve a single GDPR enforcement notice, secured no criminal convictions and issued only four GDPR fines, totalling just £633,000, despite the fact that it received over 40,000 data subject complaints. Open Rights Group’s recently published ICO Alternative Annual Report shows that the ICO issued just one fine and two enforcement notices against public sector bodies, and that

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