UK Research and Innovation: Freedom of Information
(asked on 13th April 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many FOI requests UKRI (a) received and (b) complete in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and on average how much it costs UKRI to fulfil an FOI request.
The numbers of Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests received and completed since UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) was established in April 2018 are:
| 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 (January to March) |
FOI requests Received | 240 | 358 | 362 | 101 |
FOI responses Completed | 225 | 336 | 371* | 98 |
*cases received at the end of 2019 were closed in the beginning of 2020.
UKRI does not record the costs of responding to individual FOI requests.