Will the First Minister state how many Freedom of Information Requests were submitted to the Welsh Government in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to date and how many were answered within the statutory time frame?
The figures requested are in the table below. These figures refer to all requests made under the statutory access to information regime and include requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, The Data Protection Act 1998 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. This is consistent with the way statistics on information requests are published.
WAQ76470
Year |
Submitted |
Answered within Statutory Deadline |
2015 |
899 |
778 |
2016 |
885 |
750 |
2017 |
787 |
656 |
2018 (to date) |
345* |
307 |
Total |
2,916 |
2,491 |
WAQ76471
|
Requests Received |
No Information provided |
Some information provided |
Internal Reviews |
2015 |
899 |
151 |
131 |
40 |
2016 |
885 |
152 |
137 |
59 |
2017 |
787 |
113 |
139 |
56 |
2018 (to date) |
345* |
112 |
49 |
37 (4 still active) |
* The requests received / submitted figure for 2018 does not include 76 requests that are still active.
Internal Review Outcomes
|
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
Complaint upheld |
6 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
Complaint partly upheld |
7 |
11 |
13 |
3 |
Original decision upheld |
27 |
44 |
39 |
28 |
Complaint withdrawn |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Refused** |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Total |
40 |
59 |
56 |
33 |
** Request for an Internal Review was refused as it was outside the time parameters for receiving a complaint.