Reprimands · Central government
Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Office)
No fineReprimands
Root cause
Failure on individual rights
Subject access requests ignored or answered late, or people prevented from exercising their data rights.
What happened
A reprimand has been issued to the Home Office following investigations that showed between March 2021 and November 2021, they had a significant back log of SARs, amounting to just under 21,000 not being responded to during the statutory timeframe. Complaints to the ICO showed requesters suffered significant distress as a result. As of July 2022, there are just over 3,000 unanswered SARs outside of the legal time limit.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 21 September 2022. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.