Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average response time to subject access requests was by their Department in the latest period for which data is available; and if they will make an assessment of the adequacy of that response time.
The Department measures whether a subject access request (SAR) received did or did not receive a response within the legal deadline. It is, therefore, not possible to report on actual clearance time averages. The legal deadline is within one calendar month, or three months if deemed complex. For quarter one, 2023/24 performance for completion within timeframe was 99%.