Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the cost to parish councils of responding to freedom of information requests on the budgets and resources of such councils.
My department has made no assessment of the cost of responding to freedom of information requests by parish councils. It is for each public authority to determine how to resource and budget for information requests.