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Written question asked by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 15 January 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 17 January 2008. It was answered by Jonathan Shaw (Labour) on Thursday, 7 February 2008 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Departmental Freedom of Information

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what percentage of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department have given rise to responses that have been published by his Department.
Answer

The Department has adopted a selective disclosure log. Where information is disclosed to an individual in response to a request under the FOI Act, Departments and NDPBs have been advised to consider whether the information disclosed is of general interest and include released information in a disclosure log as part of the publication scheme. A disclosure log is a web-based list of FOI requests together with links to the documents released in response to them and including descriptions of the information.The figures since 2005 are set out in the following table:

Quarter Requests answered partially or fully In disclosure log Percentage
Q1-2005 203 14 7
Q2-2005 107 11 10
Q3-2005 72 7 10
Q4-2005 80 5 6
Q1-2006 85 13 15
Q2-2006 57 5 9
Q3-2006 90 8 9
Q4-2006 70 10 14
Q1-2007 75 8 11
Q2-2007 44 3 7
Q3-2007 37 0 0

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
471 c1330-1W;471 c1326W; 180215
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Freedom of information
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk