Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Freedom of Information
(asked on 24th April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Deputy Foreign Secretary, what the average time taken by his Department to respond to a freedom of information (FOI) request was in each of the last five years; how many and what proportion of FOI requests his Department did not answer within the target time in each of the last five years; and how many FOI requests to his Department have not been answered within the target time as of 24 April 2024.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The FCDO takes its responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act very seriously and will continue to strive to answer Freedom of Information (FOI) requests within the required timescales.
1. Number of cases received and answered on time 2019 - 2023
Year | Department | Total Number of FOI requests | Total Number answered on time | % on time |
2019 | FCO | 1229 | 1146 | 93% |
DfID | 436 | 430 | 99% | |
2020 | FCO | 828 | 665 | 80% |
DfID | 288 | 283 | 98% | |
FCDO | 352 | 277 | 79% | |
2021 | FCDO | 1245 | 1080 | 87% |
2022 | FCDO | 1214 | 956 | 79% |
2023 | FCDO | 1362 | 866 | 64% |
2. Number of cases received and answered on time 2024 - to date
Year | Department | Total number of FOI requests closed to date | Total number answered on time to date | % answered on time |
2024 to date | FCDO | 334 | 212 | 63% |