Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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 average time taken by my Department to respond to subject access requests from 1 January 2022 to date, which is the latest period in which data is available, is 29.5 days.

The figures show my Department’s excellent record in responding to subject access requests, with more than 94% of requests being answered within the deadlines laid down in the data protection legislation.