Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

We endeavour to respond to all Subject Access Requests (SAR) received within the Statutory timescales listed within the DPA2018 and UK GDPR.

In the latest period in which data is available 01/08/2023 – 30/08/2023, the Subject Access Request Unit had 2,836 cases due, of which 2,630 (92.7%) were completed within the statutory deadline. The average response time for that period was 26.14 days.