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:

Oct 23 Nov 23 Dec 23 Jan 24 Feb 24 Mar 24 Apr 24 May 24 Jun 24 Jul 24 Aug 24 Sep 24
Information requests received (number) 142 146 97 238 203 166 192 180 131 154 132 125
Responses sent (number) 162 141 117 147 217 193 194 172 163 151 116 136
Requests granted in full 100 94 73 101 140 110 97 91 85 71 58 78
Requests refused in full 13 8 13 10 26 18 19 26 12 17 10 13
Information not held 33 28 21 27 32 35 46 33 28 35 27 27
Requests part granted and part refused (including Information not held) 16 11 10 9 19 30 32 22 38 28 21 18
Number of open requests at month end 82 83 61 139 126 101 100 105 72 73 77 69
Number of requests completed in less than 20 days 135 128 100 140 197 170 170 155 141 129 102 116
Number of requests completed in more than 20 days 27 13 17 7 20 23 24 17 22 22 14 20
Internal Review Requests 4 1 0 3 4 3 1 4 1 3 1 4
Compliance rates (%) 94% 93% 96% 96% 97% 95% 96% 97% 93% 92% 93% 98%