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Total staff headcount 353
(Full-time equivalent) 328

ICO budget for 2011/12 c £19,680,000
Notifications fee income c £15,100,000
Number of organisations who notify with us 339,298

Visits to the ICO website c 2,400,000
Calls to the ICO’s helplines 206,585

Public prompted awareness of data protection rights 89%
Public prompted awareness of freedom of information rights 84%

Data protection
Cases received 26,227
Cases closed 29,685
Cases closed in 30 days or less 42%

Freedom of information
Cases received 4,374
Cases closed 4,369
Cases closed in 30 days or less 31%

Enforcement action
Undertakings 46
Prosecutions 5
Civil monetary penalties 4

Data protection (DP) figures include cases under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and Freedom of information (FOI) figures include cases under the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR).

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