Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education,what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by her Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Official National Statistics on Freedom of Information (FOI) performance for all central government departments and other monitored bodies can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
The Department continually monitors and looks for ways to improve its FOI performance.
Asked by: Julian Knight (Independent - Solihull)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps their Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Official National Statistics on Freedom of Information (FOI) performance for all central government departments and other monitored bodies can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.
The Department continually monitors and looks for ways to improve its FOI performance.
Dec. 13 2007
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q3: July - September 2007. 40 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q3: July - September
Apr. 23 2009
Source Page: The Freedom of Information Act 2000—Statistics on implementation in Central Government: Q4—October-December 2008. 40 p.Found: The Freedom of Information Act 2000—Statistics on implementation in Central Government: Q4—October-December
Sep. 18 2008
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q2: April - June 2008. 35 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q2: April - June
Dec. 16 2008
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q3: July - September 2008. 35 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q3: July - September
Apr. 21 2008
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q4: October - December 2007. 40 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q4: October - December
Sep. 24 2009
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000-statistics on implementation in central government Q2: April-June 2009. 38 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000-statistics on implementation in central government Q2: April-June 2009
Jul. 03 2008
Source Page: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q1: January - March 2008. 40 p.Found: Freedom of Information Act 2000: statistics on implementation in central government, Q1: January - March
Asked by: Lord Skidelsky (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to bring into force all the provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act of 2023, including the statutory tort contained in section 4, that have not yet come into effect.
Answered by Baroness Barran - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
The remaining provisions of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 will come into force in two phases. The main provisions of the Act, including the statutory tort contained in section 4, free speech duties on higher education providers, constituent institutions and students' unions, and the new complaints scheme will come into force on 1 August 2024.
The second phase involves provisions relating to new conditions of registration on providers and monitoring of overseas funding. These will come into force on 1 September 2025. This information was published by the Office for Students on 13 September 2023, see: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/quality-and-standards/freedom-of-speech/changes-to-regulation/.
The department will lay the necessary secondary legislation to bring the Act’s provisions into force by those dates.