Freedom of Information Response Rates

The Council’s response rates for Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulation requests for the year to date are as follows:

Jan 24 Feb 24 Mar 24 Apr 24 May-24 Jun-24 Jul-24 Aug-24 Sep-24 Oct-24 Nov-24 Dec-24
Information requests received (number) 238 203 166 192 180 131 154 132 125 143 147 137
Responses sent (number) 147 217 193 194 172 163 151 116 136 137 146 123
Requests granted in full 101 140 110 97 91 85 71 58 78 68 76 72
Requests refused in full 10 26 18 19 26 12 17 10 13 16 13 12
Information not held 27 32 35 46 33 28 35 27 27 27 37 22
Requests part granted and part refused (including Information not held) 9 19 30 32 22 38 28 21 18 26 20 17
Number of open requests at month end 139 126 101 100 105 72 73 77 69 72 63 87
Number of requests completed in less than 20 days 140 197 170 170 155 141 129 102 116 119 133 110
Number of requests completed in more than 20 days 7 20 23 24 17 22 22 14 20 18 13 13
Internal Review Requests 3 4 3 1 4 1 3 1 4 5 2 1
Compliance rates (%) 96% 97% 95% 96% 97% 93% 92% 93% 98% 97% 92% 98%