Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, on how many occasions her Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the safety of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
Section 38(1)(a) and section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 were used by the Department for Education on the following numbers of occasions in each of the last 5 years:
Year | s38 (a) and (b) | s38(a) only | s38(b) only |
2010 | - | - | - |
2011 | 1 | - | - |
2012 | 2 | 1 | - |
2013 | - | - | - |
2014 | - | 1 | - |
2015 | 4 | - | 1 |