The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice to the Department for International Trade (DIT) and a practice recommendation to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The DIT enforcement notice is the first time the ICO has taken such measures in seven years and represents a new approach to Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) regulation. The DIT responded late to more than 50% of requests between January and March 2022 and is "required to respond to any outstanding requests older than 20 working days, within 35 calendar days of the enforcement notice." The ICO issued BEIS a practice recommendation persistently failing to respond to information access requests within the legal time limit.
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