Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Basildon on 21 October (HL1282), how many substantive disclosures have been issued, since the general election, by the Department for Business and Trade in response to Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOI) requests on Civil Service workplace occupancy across the department; and whether they will place in the Library of the House a copy of each FOI disclosure, redacting the name of the applicant.

Since the general election on 4th July 2024, the Department for Business and Trade received and issued one substantive Freedom of Information request pertaining to the civil service workplace occupancy data across the Department. A copy of the letter issued to the requestor will be deposited in the Libraries of both Houses with relevant redactions to the name of the applicant.