Department of Health and Social Care: Freedom of Information

(asked on 24th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many freedom of information requests has his Department referred to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House for advice on handling in each year since 2016.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 29th June 2021

The information is not held in the format requested and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.

Since 2016, the Department has occasionally referred Freedom of Information requests to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House for advice on handling in accordance with referral criteria, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information

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