PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Information Commissioner's Office: Finance (24 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much central government funding was provided to the Information Commissioners Office in each of the last three years; what what central government funding is planned to be provided to that Office in each of the next three years.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

The 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) (for 2018/19 onwards). The funding for the previous 3 years and the projected funding for the next 2 years are summarised below:

2015/16 (actual	2016/17 (actual)	2017/18 (actual)*	2018/19 (forecast)*	2019/20 (forecast)*	2020/21 (forecast)*
See ICO’s annual accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/annual-reports/	See ICO’s annual accounts: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/our-information/annual-reports/	£3,795k** The ICO are due to lay their accounts before Parliament on 3rd July 2018	£4,250k**	£4,250k	As this is outside of the current Spending Review period, it is not possible to supply forecasted funding figures.

* 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.

Answered by:
Margot James (Conservative)
27 April 2018