Freedom of Information Requests

Freedom of Information (FOI) statistics and information

The following table gives a breakdown of the number of FOI and Subject Access Requests (SAR) received per quarter, plus the number of requests processed within the legal time frame, which is 20 working days for FOI requests and one calendar month for SARs.

Freedom of Information statistics

2023 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2023

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	57	55	2	0	16	11	18	12

2022 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2022

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	64	60	4	0	17	13	25	9
Quarter 2	60	60	0	0	9	17	28	5
Quarter 3	61	56	5	0	11	19	20	11
Quarter 4	65	64	1	0	13	16	27	8
Total in 2022	250	240	10	0	50	65	100	33

2021 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2021

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	80	76	4	0	19	15	39	7
Quarter 2	67	65	2	0	13	10	36	8
Quarter 3	65	63	2	0	20	13	17	15
Quarter 4	58	56	2	0	18	12	21	7
Total in 2022	270	260	10	0	70	50	113	37

2020 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2020

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	86	85	1	0	41	11	23	11
Quarter 2	54	49	5	0	23	12	13	6
Quarter 3	59	56	3	0	17	12	24	6
Quarter 4	68	68	0	0	14	18	25	11
Total in 2020	267	258	9	0	95	53	85	34

2019 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2019

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	36	34	2	0	16	9	4	7
Quarter 2	41	41	0	0	16	16	4	5
Quarter 3	40	39	1	0	13	13	9	5
Quarter 4	50	43	0	0	20	6	15	4
Total in 2019	167	157	3	0	65	44	32	21

2018 FOI requests and responses

Number of Freedom of Information requests and responses in 2018

Quarter	Requests received	Response on time	Late response	No response	Full response	Partial response	Response refused	Requested information not held
Quarter 1	30	13	12	5	12	8	2	2
Quarter 2	33	21	11	1	17	7	2	5
Quarter 3	31	18	12	1	10	8	1	10
Quarter 4	20	10	9	1	13	2	4	2
Total in 2018	114	62	44	8	52	25	9	19

Subject Access Requests

2023 Subject Access Requests

Number of Subject Access Requests in 2023

Quarter	Number of requests	Extension Applied
Quarter 1	7	0

2022 Subject Access Requests

Number of Subject Access Requests in 2022

Quarter	Number of requests	Extension Applied
Quarter 1	7	0
Quarter 2	4	0
Quarter 3	6	3
Quarter 4	7	0
Total in 2022	24	3

2021 Subject Access Requests

Number of Subject Access Requests in 2021

Quarter	Number of requests	Extension Applied
Quarter 1	19	3
Quarter 2	10	1
Quarter 3	8	1
Quarter 4	10	1
Total in 2021	42	6

2020 Subject Access Requests

Number of Subject Access Requests in 2020

Quarter	Number of requests	Extension Applied
Quarter 1	8	1
Quarter 2	7	1
Quarter 3	13	1
Quarter 4	11	1
Total in 2020	39	4

2019 Subject Access Requests

Number of Subject Access Requests in 2022

Quarter	Number of requests	Extension Applied
Quarter 1	1	0
Quarter 2	3	0
Quarter 3	1	0
Quarter 4	8	2
Total in 2019	13	2

Response appeals

Number of Response Appeals

Year	Internal review	Information Commissioner's Office complaint	First Tier Tribual
2022	51	10	3
2021	24	8	2
2020	26	3	1
2019	9	6	1
2018	5	4	0