Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Information Commissioner's Office will be entitled to spend on data protection activities in the next financial year; and how that figure will be affected if the Information Commissioner's Office registration fee income increases.

The Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) income from data protection fees and the corresponding amount remitted to the Consolidated Fund for the last six years is set out in the table below:

The amount available to spend each year on data protection activities is dependent on the number of organisations that notify with the ICO. Income for 2015/16 is currently profiled to be £18.5M.