£200,000
Penalty imposed
Not stated
5 December 2024
Date on the register
Not stated
Law relied on
provision not named
Finance, insurance and credit
Sector
19 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO fined ESL Consultancy Services Ltd £200,000 on 5 December 2024 under a provision the published notice does not name.
01The record
- Organisation named
- ESL Consultancy Services Ltd
- Action
- Monetary penalty
- Date published
- 5 December 2024
- Register year
- 2024
- Law relied on
- Not stated
- Provisions cited
- Not named in the published notice
- Penalty
- £200,000
- Sector on the register
- Finance, insurance and credit
- ICO register reference
- 64370
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 19 of 216 actions (9%)
- Actions published that year
- 52
- Actions under this law
- 24
- Position on the register
- 159th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
- Rank by penalty size
- 14th of 44 penalties with a published figure
- Complaints recorded
- 37,977
- Entries for this organisation
- 2 on this register
02What happened, and where it sits
ESL Consultancy Services Ltd received an ICO monetary penalty on 5 December 2024. The published entry does not name the provision the Commissioner relied on. A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
The penalty is £200,000. That is the 14th largest of the 44 penalties on this register with a published figure and the 3rd largest of the 13 recorded in 2024.
The notice puts numbers on the contravention: 37,977 complaints. Those figures are the ICO's, taken from the published notice for this action.
ESL Consultancy Services Ltd is filed under Finance, insurance and credit, which accounts for 19 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 17 of them monetary penalties. 24 actions on the register name no statute.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 159th of 216 actions on the register and the 16th of 19 in Finance, insurance and credit. ESL Consultancy Services Ltd appears 2 times on this register: monetary penalty on 5 December 2024 and enforcement notice on 5 December 2024. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 934 KB in total: "ESL Consultancy Services Ltd monetary penalty notice". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
Between 15 September 2022 and 5 December 2023, a total of 37,977 complaints were received regarding direct marketing messages which were sent at the instigation of ESL. The company has been fined £200,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.
The law behind this action
Not stated
Where the ICO's published register entry and notice do not name the provision relied on, nothing is inferred here. The linked notice is the authority.
What a monetary penalty does
A fine. The ICO issues a monetary penalty notice setting out the contravention and the sum payable.
Published notice
04Other entries for ESL Consultancy Services Ltd
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESL Consultancy Services Ltd | 5 Dec 2024 | Enforcement notice | Not stated | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Debt Advice Limited | 14 Oct 2024 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £30,000 |
| Pinnacle Life Limited | 7 Mar 2024 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £80,000 |
| Quick Tax Claims Limited | 15 Oct 2024 | Monetary penalty | Not stated | £120,000 |
| DPG Professional Services Ltd | 9 Nov 2023 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | - |
| Digivo Media Limited | 3 Oct 2023 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £50,000 |
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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.
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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/2025/01/esl-consultancy-services-ltd-mpn/.
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