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:

Apr 2023 May 2023 Jun 2023 Jul 2023 Aug 2023 Sep 2023 Oct 2023 Nov 2023 Dec 2023 Jan 2024 Feb 2024 Mar 2024
Information requests received (number) 124 129 115 159 180 152 142 146 97 238 203 163
Responses sent (number) 73 93 144 279 154 208 162 141 117 147 217 193
Requests granted in full 42 47 86 194 104 145 100 94 73 101 140 110
Requests refused in full 5 7 6 15 8 11 13 8 13 10 26 18
Information not held 18 27 34 34 29 26 33 28 21 27 32 35
Requests part granted and part refused (including Information not held) 8 12 18 36 13 26 16 11 10 9 19 30
Number of open requests at month end 266 300 269 144 168 107 82 83 61 139 126 101
Number of requests completed in less than 20 days 20 29 40 59 74 150 135 128 100 140 197 170
Number of requests completed in more than 20 days 53 64 104 220 80 58 27 13 17 7 20 23
Internal Review Requests 1 0 5 5 1 5 4 1 0 3 4 3
Compliance rates (%) 14% 22% 23% 54% 42% 87% 94% 93% 96% 96% 98% 94%