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FOI & EIR Request statistics 2018/19

Question:
FOI & EIR Request statistics 2018/19
Answer:
StatisticApr-JunJul-SepOct-DecJan-Mar
Number of freedom of Information (FOI) requests received 440 413 342  408
Number of environmental Information Regulations (EIR) requests received 772 851 920  22
Total number of FOI and EIR requests received 1212 1264 1262 430 
Number of requests that took 20 working days or less to be processed 956 1114 914  311
Number of request that took between 20 – 25 working days to be processed 168 91 44  58
Number of FOI requests not answered within 20 working days 70 36 64  56
Number of EIR requests not answered within 20 working days 0 0 6  5
Number of requests where 20 working day deadline extended as permitted in legislation – clarification
14 14   6  0
Number of requests where 20 working day deadline extended as permitted in legislation – public interest test 4 9 3  20
Number of requests where a fee was charged 0 0 0
Number of requests refused in full because SCC do not hold any of it 88 92 78  109
Number of requests refused due to vexatious 0 0 1  0
Number of requests refused due to being repeats 0 0 0  0
Number that were refused as costs would exceed the appropriate limit 7 13 21  0 
FOI requests where section 22-44 was the reason for refusal 8 11 13  6
Percentage of requests answered under 20 working days 79% 88% 72%  72%
Percentage of requests answered within 25 working days or less 92% 99% 79%  85%

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