Enforcement notices
Somerset Council
No fineEnforcement notices
Root cause
Failure on individual rights
Subject access requests ignored or answered late, or people prevented from exercising their data rights.
What happened
Somerset Council (the Council) has been served with an Enforcement Notice as a result of the evidence seen by the Commissioner about its performance in relation to its statutory duties under the Freedom of information Act.
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 20 October 2026. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.