Senior Leadership Team terms of reference

1. Purpose

1.1 The Senior Leadership Team (SLT) provides day to day

leadership for the ICO, overseeing a working environment

which supports the effective achievement of goals and

priorities, maintains all necessary standards of compliance

and good practice and ensures the ICO is a great place to

work.

1.2 More specifically, the SLT has delegated responsibility for

developing and delivering against the ICO’s Information

Rights Strategic Plan, other significant strategies and its

budget.

2. Responsibilities

2.1 The SLT:

• Develops and regularly reviews the Information Rights

Strategic Plan, other significant strategies and the ICO

budget. In doing so it specifically reviews individual

Executive Directorate performance, risks and other issues

quarterly.

• Reports performance against the Information Rights

Strategic Plan, significant other strategies and budgets to

Management Board.

• Develops the Annual Accounts and reports prior to their

presentation to Management Board.

2.2 The SLT is also responsible for the work of the Steering

Groups which have been set up to consider and make

decisions in their specific areas; ensuring that where matters

come to the Steering Groups which are related to corporate

risks and prioritisation, that the Groups refer these matters on

to the SLT as appropriate.

2.3 The SLT should also ensure that matters which are more

appropriate for the Steering Groups to consider are referred

to the appropriate group.

2.4 The SLT chair should report to the Management Board on a

quarterly basis, normally by presenting minutes of meetings

at the next Management Board.

3 Authority

3.1 The SLT’s authority derives from the Executive Team.

4 Composition

4.1 The SLT consists of:

• Information Commissioner (Chair)

• Deputy Commissioner (Policy)

• Deputy Commissioner (Operations)

• Deputy Chief Executive Officer

• Executive Director – Technology Policy and Innovation

• General Legal Counsel

• Director of Corporate Affairs and Governance

• Director of Digital, IT and Customer Services

• Director of Data Protection Complaints and Compliance

• Director of Freedom of Information Complaints and

Compliance

• Director of High Profile Investigations and Intelligence

• Director of Investigations and Intelligence

• Director of Regulatory Assurance

• Director of Resources

• Director of Strategic Policy (Domestic)

• Director of Strategic Policy (International and Innovation)

• Director of Strategic Policy (Parliament and Government

Affairs)

4.2 The Head of Communications will also attend meetings of the

Team.

5 Quorum

5.1 The SLT meeting is quorate with the following members

present:

• At least one member of the Executive Team and

• At least five Directors.

6 Information requirements

6.1 The SLT should ensure that arrangements are in place to

enable it to discharge its responsibilities effectively, including

the timely provision of information in an appropriate form and

quality.

6.2 The Corporate Risk Register should come to every formal SLT

meeting.

6.3 The SLT should also receive reports on:

• Individual Executive Directorate performance, risks

and other issues.

• Income and expenditure.

• Strategic information rights issues.