None
Financial penalty
Enforcement notice, no fine
27 August 2025
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
DPA 2018 section 149, UK GDPR Article 4(7)
Local government
Sector
20 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO issued Bristol City Council with a enforcement notice on 27 August 2025 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Bristol City Council
- Action
- Enforcement notice
- Date published
- 27 August 2025
- Register year
- 2025
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- DPA 2018 section 149, UK GDPR Article 4(7), UK GDPR Article 12(3), UK GDPR Article 15(1), UK GDPR Article 15(3)
- Penalty
- None (not a financial penalty)
- Sector on the register
- Local government
- ICO register reference
- 80705
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 2 PDFs published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 20 of 216 actions (9%)
- Actions published that year
- 31
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 180th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
02What happened, and where it sits
Bristol City Council received an ICO enforcement notice on 27 August 2025. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing DPA 2018 section 149, UK GDPR Article 4(7), UK GDPR Article 12(3) and UK GDPR Article 15(1). An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.
No sum is attached to this action. Enforcement notices are corrective, not financial, which is why Bristol City Council appears on the register without a figure beside it.
Bristol City Council is filed under Local government, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2025 the ICO published 31 enforcement actions in total, 9 of them enforcement notices. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 180th of 216 actions on the register and the 20th of 20 in Local government. The ICO publishes 2 documents for this action, 295 KB in total: "Bristol City Council Enforcement Notice" and "Bristol City Council issued with enforcement notice over failures to respond to data requests". They are the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice to Bristol City Council (BCC) for failing to comply with its legal obligations to respond to people who asked for the personal information the council held on them – known as a subject access request (SAR).
The law behind this action
UK GDPR
The UK GDPR is the data protection regime the ICO enforces against controllers and processors. Its upper tier is capped at £17.5 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
What a enforcement notice does
An order to act. An enforcement notice requires the organisation to take, or stop taking, specified steps by a deadline, and failure to comply is itself an offence.
04Nearest entries on the register
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| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 May 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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| City of Edinburgh Council | 3 Feb 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Southend-on-Sea City Council | 14 Oct 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) | 13 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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05Work out an exposure of your own
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Provenance and independence
Source: ICO enforcement register (ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/), as published on 4 September 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GDPRFine.com is an independent tracker of ICO enforcement. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Information Commissioner's Office, and it uses no ICO branding. Where the ICO's own wording is reproduced it is quoted and attributed; everything else on these pages is our own summary of the published record.
The ICO's register held 222 entries on that date. 6 of them are prosecutions of named individuals, with ages and home towns in the ICO's own summary. This tracker indexes organisations, so those 6 are excluded and every count on these pages is out of 216. They remain on the ICO's own register.
An entry says what the Commissioner did on the date shown. It is not a statement about the organisation today, and the ICO can amend or remove a register entry at any time. Amounts and provisions are as published by the ICO; where the published notice does not state a figure or name a provision, these pages say so rather than filling the gap. This entry was read from the register page at https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/2025/09/bristol-city-council/.
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