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387376

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on how many occasions his Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the safety of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	5316
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Wales Office statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports), and are available here: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each government department. More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available because our systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns grouped question UIN 5295 question first answered 09/07/2015 14:28:11 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387377

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, on how many occasions his Department applied the exemption in section 38(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (disclosure likely to endanger the physical or mental health of any individual) in wholly or partly refusing a freedom of information request in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	5295
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>Wales Office statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports), and are available here: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p><p>These statistics provide the number of times section 38 as a whole has been used by each government department. More detailed figures for the constituent parts of section 38 are not readily available because our systems are not designed to provide a more detailed breakdown than is required for the published statistics.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns grouped question UIN 5316 question first answered 09/07/2015 14:28:11 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

418757

	registered interest
	date	14/09/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, how many hours his Department spent on processing freedom of information requests in each of the last 24 months.
	tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
	tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
	uin	10233
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>The Wales Office has a shared service arrangement with the Northern Ireland Office for the provision of FOI services. There is one full time FOI manager employed by the Northern Ireland Office supported by three people from the Wales Office on a part time basis (0.4 full time equivalent staff). The FOI Team does not record the number of hours spent on processing FOI requests.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 17/09/2015 09:57:46 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

426366

	registered interest
	date	04/11/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what average time his Department took to respond to freedom of information requests in each year since 2005.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	14908
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2015 answer text <p>The Government publishes statistics on the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 within central government, including on timeliness. These can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 11/11/2015 12:49:55 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

387378

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2015
	answering body	Wales Office
	answering dept id	28
	answering dept short name	Wales
	answering dept sort name	Wales
	hansard heading	Wales Office: Freedom of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what instructions have been given to staff in his Department dealing with freedom of information requests on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No. 19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, in considering whether to apply the exemptions in section 38 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
	tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
	tabling member printed	Peter Grant
	uin	5337
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No guidance has been issued to Wales Office staff on the application of Freedom of Information Act Awareness Guidance No.19, issued by the Information Commissioner's Office, about the application of section 38 of the Act. However, the Ministry of Justice as the lead Department on Freedom of Information requests has published its own guidance on the use of this exemption. This is available here: <a title="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance" target="_blank">http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/foi-guidance-for-practitioners/exemptions-guidance</a><em>.</em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Vale of Glamorgan answering member printed Alun Cairns question first answered 09/07/2015 14:25:48 answering member 4086 label Biography information for Alun Cairns
	tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant