None

Financial penalty

Enforcement notice, no fine

28 June 2023

Date on the register

PECR 2003

Law relied on

DPA 2018 section 40, PECR regulation 22

Sector not stated

Sector

35 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued Fortis Insolvency Limited with a enforcement notice on 28 June 2023 under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: Fortis Insolvency Limited
Action: Enforcement notice
Date published: 28 June 2023
Register year: 2023
Law relied on: PECR 2003
Provisions cited: DPA 2018 section 40, PECR regulation 22
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: Sector not stated
ICO register reference: 17287
Register status: Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
Notice documents: 2 PDFs published by the ICO
Sector share of register: 35 of 216 actions (16%)
Actions published that year: 80
Actions under this law: 87
Position on the register: 64th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone
Entries for this organisation: 2 on this register

02What happened, and where it sits

Fortis Insolvency Limited received an ICO enforcement notice on 28 June 2023. The Commissioner acted under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, citing DPA 2018 section 40 and PECR regulation 22. 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. PECR is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR, so this is an ICO penalty under the marketing rules and not a GDPR fine.

No sum is attached to this action. Enforcement notices are corrective, not financial, which is why Fortis Insolvency Limited appears on the register without a figure beside it.

The register entry does not assign this action to a sector. In 2023 the ICO published 80 enforcement actions in total, 21 of them enforcement notices. 87 actions on the register name PECR 2003.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 64th of 216 actions on the register. Fortis Insolvency Limited appears 2 times on this register: enforcement notice on 28 June 2023 and monetary penalty on 28 June 2023. The ICO publishes 2 documents for this action, 668 KB in total: "Fortis-Insolvency-Limited-Enforcement-Notice" and "Fortis Insolvency Limited monetary penalty notice". They are the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

Fortis Insolvency Limited sent 558,354 direct marketing SMS messages without valid consent with 527,481 received by subscribers between 26 July 2020 and 26 July 2021 in contravention of regulation 22 of PECR. The company was fined £30,000 and issued with an enforcement notice.

Quoted from the ICO's published register entry (ico.org.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The law behind this action

PECR 2003

PECR governs electronic marketing, cookies and communications-service security. It is a separate instrument from the UK GDPR: an action taken under PECR is not a GDPR fine, and the register pages here never describe it as one.

All 87 register actions under PECR 2003

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.

Published notice

04Other entries for Fortis Insolvency Limited

1 further entry on the register
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Fortis Insolvency Limited	28 Jun 2023	Monetary penalty	PECR 2003	£30,000	Sector not stated

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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/2023/06/fortis-insolvency-limited-en/.