Under the microscope: FOI & DP July 2026
This month, Lynn Wyeth looks at PIT extensions and when you can release personal data.
9 July 2026
Most technologies, once implemented, are simply left to stagnate. eCase’s service is different. We’re constantly beside you on your journey of continuous optimisation, ensuring that you are always realising the maximum value from your investment and our innovations.
Whilst the eCase Platform is the best of breed built for purpose technology, the eCase Experience Group (EXG) focusses on the people and process pillars of transformation. Our team’s unique knowledge and experience of public sector correspondence management ensures that you are taking advantage of industry best practices. We make sure that all of your stakeholders are engaged and recognise the benefits of our service.
These are just some of the elements that the eCase Experience Group provides.
We are honoured that the MOD’s transformation of its Data Protection Request Service to ex-service personnel has been recognised in the #DL100 Digital Leaders award shortlist. Fivium worked with the MOD on this and, in creating a comprehensive end-to-end digital service, the MOD has:
– Freed up the equivalent of 5 people’s time by creating a seamless way for personnel to request their information.
– Saved 70,000 hours a year through efficient and seamless case processing.
– Made access to information easy for people of all digital abilities.
eCase enables you to log, process and respond to all your correspondence in one place, ensuring consistency of responses and reductions in duplication of work.
Track, manage and action every step of the FOI/EIR process from one comprehensive system.
Validate identification documents and log payment, request and collate subject information, whilst keeping track of progress and staying on time.
Act upon complaints as they arise. Log every interaction and manage, create and send all responses from just one system.
Manage all correspondence types, create simple responses, group similar correspondence, through to approvals tracking and sign-off.
Handle all types of MC, including No. 10 requests, Dear Colleague and more - all the way through to approval and ministerial sign-off.
Get end-to-end Parliamentary Questions management for all PQ types, across all teams, all in one system.
This month, Lynn Wyeth looks at PIT extensions and when you can release personal data.
In this special bonus blog, Lynn Wyeth looks at what ‘conditions of human life’ mean for EIR and share a useful summary on what needs to be in place for DP complaints Employee SARs.
This month, Lynn Wyeth looks at two areas that that are often complex, tricky or both: EIRs and Employee SARs.