None
Financial penalty
Reprimand, no fine
14 October 2024
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
Local government
Sector
20 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO issued Southend-on-Sea City Council with a reprimand on 14 October 2024 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Southend-on-Sea City Council
- Action
- Reprimand
- Date published
- 14 October 2024
- Register year
- 2024
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
- Penalty
- None (not a financial penalty)
- Sector on the register
- Local government
- ICO register reference
- 17376
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 20 of 216 actions (9%)
- Actions published that year
- 52
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 155th of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- 3 actions dated 14 October 2024
02What happened, and where it sits
Southend-on-Sea City Council received an ICO reprimand on 14 October 2024. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 5(1)(f) and UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b). A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.
No sum is attached to this action. Reprimands are corrective, not financial, which is why Southend-on-Sea City Council appears on the register without a figure beside it.
Southend-on-Sea City Council is filed under Local government, which accounts for 20 of the 216 actions on the register (9%). In 2024 the ICO published 52 enforcement actions in total, 18 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.
Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 155th of 216 actions on the register and the 16th of 20 in Local government. The ICO published 3 actions on 14 October 2024, so this one was part of a batch: National Debt Advice Limited (monetary penalty) and National Debt Advice Limited (enforcement notice). The ICO publishes one document for this action, 598 KB in total: "Southend on Sea City Council - Reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
We issued a reprimand to Southend-on-Sea City Council in Essex after hidden data on a spreadsheet released as part of a freedom of information request revealed the sensitive personal details of staff.
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 reprimand does
A formal criticism on the public record. A reprimand carries no fine and no order, but it is published and the ICO expects the shortcomings named in it to be fixed.
Published notice
- PDFSouthend on Sea City Council - Reprimand(598 KB)
04Published the same day
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Debt Advice Limited | 14 Oct 2024 | Monetary penalty | PECR 2003 | £30,000 |
| National Debt Advice Limited | 14 Oct 2024 | Enforcement notice | PECR 2003 | - |
05Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) | 13 Mar 2024 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| City of Edinburgh Council | 3 Feb 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Glasgow City Council | 4 Feb 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 May 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Charnwood Borough Council | 29 Nov 2023 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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How a fine is calculated
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The ICO profile
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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/2024/10/southend-on-sea-city-council/.
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