Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time for a response to be issued to a Freedom of Information request made to her Department was in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Departmental Freedom Of Information (FOI) performance is based on compliance against the statutory 20 working day time limit and these stats are captured for all Government departments on a quarterly and annual basis.

These statistics are accessible through the following link https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics

The next update to these statistics will be 28 April 2021 when Q4 2020 and 2020 annual statistics will be published.