Recommendation L66: ICO Organisation Review
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
The Information Commissioner's Office should take the opportunity to review its organisation and decision-making processes to ensure that large-scale issues, with both strategic and operational dimensions (including the relationship between the culture, practices and ethics of the press in relation to personal information on the one hand, and the application of the data protection regime to the press on the other) can be satisfactorily considered and addressed in the round.
In brief (written by this site)
The Inquiry asked the Information Commissioner's Office to review its organisation and decision-making processes. In January 2013, it stated that its management structure and controls were very different from those that existed during the events examined in detail by the Inquiry (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013). It explained in January 2013 that its current arrangements were designed to ensure that large-scale issues with both strategic and operational dimensions are properly considered and addressed in the round (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013). The record holds nothing dated later than the response of January 2013 (Information Commissioner's Office response, Jan 2013).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 2 Oct 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
As explained above the management structure and controls that we now have in place are very different from those that existed at the time of the events Lord Justice Leveson looked at in the greatest detail. The current arrangements are designed to ensure that large scale issues with both strategic and operational dimensions are properly considered and addressed in the round.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Information Commissioner has been found in the sources searched (last checked 24 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
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- Information Commissioner
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