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	registered interest
	date	16/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what 10 Downing Street's average response rate was to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month from July 2016 to date.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68271
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office and is included in this reply.</p><p>FOI statistics are Official Statistics and are governed by the standards set out by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) in their Code of Practice. To publish information outside of the release timetable would be a breach of Protocol 2 of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p><ins class="ministerial">The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/freedom-of-information-statistics-july-to-september-2016--2</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 21/03/2017 11:23:14 question first ministerially corrected 21/03/2017 13:14:16 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore previous answer version 41317 answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

713022

	registered interest
	date	21/03/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on how many occasions 10 Downing Street took longer than 30 working days to respond to a freedom of information request in each month since July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	68672
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my Answer of 21 March 2017 to PQ68036.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore grouped question UIN 68663 question first answered 27/03/2017 09:06:39 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

1334087

	registered interest
	date	14/06/2021
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department operates a red, amber and green rating system for categorising Freedom of Information requests according to their presentational sensitivity.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Erdington
	tabling member printed	Jack Dromey
	uin	15205
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2021 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office does not operate a rating system for Freedom of Information requests. All FOI requests are treated exactly the same, regardless of who the request is from.</p> answering member constituency Hornchurch and Upminster answering member printed Julia Lopez question first answered 17/06/2021 17:02:54 answering member 4647 label Biography information for Julia Lopez
	tabling member	3913 label Biography information for Jack Dromey

1657132

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2023
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Prime Minister: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Prime Minister’s Office is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
	tabling member constituency	Solihull
	tabling member printed	Julian Knight
	uin	196776
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2023 answer text <p>The Cabinet Office publishes statistics for FOI requests for all central government departments and other monitored bodies, which can be found on <a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a> at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>The Prime Minister’s Office is part of the Cabinet Office for the purpose of FOI requests. In 2022 the Cabinet Office responded to 92% of FOI requests within time and for Quarter 1 of 2023 this rose to 96%. This is well above the standard set by the Information Commissioner. The Cabinet Office continually monitors and looks for ways to improve its performance.</p> answering member constituency Brentwood and Ongar answering member printed Alex Burghart grouped question UIN 196777 196798 question first answered 11/09/2023 16:51:30 answering member 4613 label Biography information for Alex Burghart
	tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight