Ministry of Defence: Freedom of Information

(asked on 2nd July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, on how many occasions his Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the physical or mental health of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 9th July 2015

Statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice in their annual reports on FOI Statistics (Table 10). The annual reports are available here

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.

These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each Government Department, including the Ministry of Defence. More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available because our systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for the published statistics.

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