The Information Commissioner’s Enforcement Team has begun cracking down on public authorities that habitually fail to respond to requests for information within the statutory limits. This morning, it began publishing a list – to be updated quarterly – of authorities whose timeliness will now be subject to specific monitoring by the ICO.

 

 Those on the list have either (i) been the subject of six or more complaints of delay in the last six months, (ii) exceeded the time limit by a significant margin on at least one occasion, or (iii) appear to respond in time to fewer than 85% of requests.

  

There are 33 authorities on the first monitoring list.

 

For the ICO’s statement, click here. For the debut monitoring list, click here.