Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what funding the Government plans to allocate from the public purse for the Information Commissioner's Office in each of the next three years.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is predominantly funded through charges levied on data controllers (the notification fee, to be replaced with the data protection charge when the Data Protection {Charges and Information} Regulations 2018 come into force on 25th May 2018). The Government provides Grant in Aid funding to the ICO in respect of 4 distinct regulatory obligations: Freedom of Information; eIDAS, the Investigatory Powers Act and Networks and Information Systems (NIS). The projected funding for the next 2 years is summarised below. The year 2020/21 is outside of the current Spending Review, so figures have not yet been confirmed:

* These figures do not include the Investigatory Powers Act funding which is provided directly by the Home Office.

**An advance of £1.4m Programme GiA funding was provided in 2017/18, and is offset by a reduction of £1.4m in 2018/19. This has not been reflected in the figures above.