None
Financial penalty
Reprimand, no fine
2 December 2025
Date on the register
UK GDPR
Law relied on
UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
Sector not stated
Sector
35 actions on the register
In one line
The ICO issued Post Office Limited with a reprimand on 2 December 2025 under the UK General Data Protection Regulation. No financial penalty attaches to it.
01The record
- Organisation named
- Post Office Limited
- Action
- Reprimand
- Date published
- 2 December 2025
- Register year
- 2025
- Law relied on
- UK GDPR
- Provisions cited
- UK GDPR Article 58(2)(b)
- Penalty
- None (not a financial penalty)
- Sector on the register
- Sector not stated
- ICO register reference
- 82872
- Register status
- Published on the ICO enforcement register, 4 September 2026
- Notice documents
- 1 PDF published by the ICO
- Sector share of register
- 35 of 216 actions (16%)
- Actions published that year
- 31
- Actions under this law
- 95
- Position on the register
- 192nd of 216, oldest first
- Published the same day
- This entry alone
02What happened, and where it sits
Post Office Limited received an ICO reprimand on 2 December 2025. The Commissioner acted under the UK General Data Protection Regulation, citing 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 Post Office Limited appears on the register without a figure beside it.
The register entry does not assign this action to a sector. 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 192nd of 216 actions on the register. The ICO publishes one document for this action, 246 KB in total: "Post Office Limited reprimand". It is the authority for everything on this page.
03The ICO's own account
On 25 April 2024, Post Office Limited (POL) uploaded an unredacted copy of a legal Settlement Deed to its corporate website instead of the intended redacted version. The Settlement Deed contained the personal data of 502 claimants who were part of the 2017 group litigation brought against POL which exposed the Horizon IT Scandal.
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
- PDFPost Office Limited reprimand(246 KB)
04Nearest entries on the register
| Organisation | Date | Action | Law | Penalty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton at Home | 7 Jun 2022 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| Capita plc and Capita Pension Solutions Ltd | 15 Oct 2025 | Monetary penalty | UK GDPR | £14,000,000 |
| Staines Health Group | 16 Dec 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| South Yorkshire Police | 6 Jun 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
| London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham | 16 May 2025 | Reprimand | UK GDPR | - |
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05Work out an exposure of your own
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How a fine is calculated
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The ICO profile
How the UK regulator works post-Brexit, the £17.5M and £8.7M UK GDPR caps, and its divergence from the EU regime.
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/2025/12/post-office-limited/.
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