Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Freedom of Information

(asked on 2nd July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 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.


Answered by
George Eustice Portrait
George Eustice
This question was answered on 9th July 2015

The Ministry of Justice has published information on the number of occasions that Defra has applied the exemption in Section 38(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in the last 5 years. This is available in table 10 of the annual reports:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/423487/foi-statistics-oct-dec-2014-annual.pdf

Defra does not hold figures on the use of sections 38(1) (a) and (b) individually.

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