Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to his Department's publication entitled DWP statistical FOI releases, published on 16 November 2017, whether he plans to publish new figures for his Department's FOI releases.

The Department has an established programme of publication and publishes a large amount of data per year. Overall, the Department complies with the FOI Act and the Cabinet Office Code of Practice and will keep under consideration its approach to process and publication of information. However, it is not a requirement to publish all FOI responses.

You may be interested to know that all FOI requests that are submitted by the ‘WhatDoTheyKnow.com’ website are automatically published on that website.

The Departments figures for FOI releases are published by the Cabinet Office on a quarterly and annual basis and they can be accessed here.