None

Financial penalty

Reprimand, no fine

3 February 2025

Date on the register

UK GDPR

Law relied on

UK GDPR Article 12(3), UK GDPR Article 15

Local government

Sector

20 actions on the register

In one line

The ICO issued City of Edinburgh Council with a reprimand on 3 February 2025 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.

01The record

Organisation named: City of Edinburgh Council
Action: Reprimand
Date published: 3 February 2025
Register year: 2025
Law relied on: UK GDPR
Provisions cited: UK GDPR Article 12(3), UK GDPR Article 15, UK GDPR Article 15(1), UK GDPR Article 15(3), UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
Penalty: None (not a financial penalty)
Sector on the register: Local government
ICO register reference: 70937
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: 31
Actions under this law: 95
Position on the register: 165th of 216, oldest first
Published the same day: This entry alone

02What happened, and where it sits

City of Edinburgh Council received an ICO reprimand on 3 February 2025. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing UK GDPR Article 12(3), UK GDPR Article 15, UK GDPR Article 15(1) and UK GDPR Article 15(3). 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 City of Edinburgh Council appears on the register without a figure beside it.

City of Edinburgh 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, 8 of them reprimands. 95 actions on the register name UK GDPR.

Counted from the oldest entry forward, this is the 165th of 216 actions on the register and the 17th of 20 in Local government. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 120 KB in total: "City of Edinburgh Council reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.

03The ICO's own account

A reprimand was issued to City of Edinburgh Council as during the period between 01 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, it had failed to respond to 40% of Subject Access Requests within the statutory timeframe of one calendar month, thereby infringing Articles 12(3), 15(1) and 15(3) of the UK GDPR.

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

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.

All 95 register actions under UK GDPR

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

PDFCity of Edinburgh Council reprimand(120 KB)

04Nearest entries on the register

Closest by sector, law and date
Organisation	Date	Action	Law	Penalty	Sector
Glasgow City Council	4 Feb 2025	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham	16 May 2025	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
Southend-on-Sea City Council	14 Oct 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)	13 Mar 2024	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government
Charnwood Borough Council	29 Nov 2023	Reprimand	UK GDPR	-	Local government

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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/2025/02/city-of-edinburgh-council/.