Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps her Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) reports its Freedom of Information (FOI) performance as part of the former Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) statistics. The most recent statistics, due to be published by the Cabinet Office on the 20th of September, show that BEIS achieved 91% timeliness for FOIs received in Q2 of 2023.
DESNZ will publish its own FOI performance statistics for Q3, expected December 2023.