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<p>The Clearing House function does not have full time members of staff, and its work
is done by a small team of people in the FOI team, including the Deputy Director of
Freedom of Information and Transparency, alongside their other day to day responsibilities.
There is no separate budget for the Clearing House.</p><p>The Cabinet Office does
not routinely capture data on the number of requests which are referred to the Clearing
House. However, in 2020, Clearing House gave advice on 516 aggregated ‘round robins’
(requests made to more than one department and that have repeat characteristics);
a small proportion of over 30,000 requests received by government departments in the
same time period.</p><p>The Cabinet Office has referred requests to the Clearing House
where appropriate and in line with the published criteria, which is available on gov.uk
here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cabinet-office-and-freedom-of-information</a>.</p><p>Information
on Freedom of Information statistics is also published on gov.uk here - <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</a>.</p>
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