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722145

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many staff in his Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>FOI requests may be responded to by any member of staff across the Department, as they are allocated to the most appropriate person to respond depending on the subject of the request.</p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 26/04/2017 09:54:53 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711522

registered interest
date	15/03/2017
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the average response rate was of his Department to individual Freedom of Information requests in each month since July 2016.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	68051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2017 answer text <p>The latest Freedom of Information statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</p><p><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></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Keighley answering member printed Kris Hopkins question first answered 21/03/2017 15:48:05 answering member 4043 label Biography information for Kris Hopkins
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

418743

registered interest
date	14/09/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many hours her 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	10229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has provided a Shared FOI Service along with the Wales Office since September 2014. The FOI Team consists of one full-time member of NIO staff and three part-time members of Wales Office staff, who together contribute 0.4 FTE (full-time equivalent). Man hours spent on this area of work are not measured on a monthly basis; the Departments have allocated 1.4 staff who are responsible for this area of work.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 21/09/2015 14:09:58 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

387327

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what instructions have been given to staff in her 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	5333
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>No Northern Ireland Office (NIO) specific guidance has been issued to 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, NIO staff responsible for preparing FOI responses regularly refer to ICO and MOJ Guidance on the application of exemptions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers question first answered 09/07/2015 11:44:09 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387328

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions her 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	5291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not separately record use of exemptions under section 38(a) and 38(b), but does record use of section 38 as a whole. During the past 5 years this exemption was used three times in 2010, three times in 2013 and not used in 2011, 2012 and 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports). They are available here:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</strong></a><em>. </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers grouped question UIN 5312 question first answered 09/07/2015 11:48:40 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

387369

registered interest
date	02/07/2015
answering body	Northern Ireland Office
answering dept id	21
answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
hansard heading	Northern Ireland Office: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, on how many occasions her 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	5312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2015 answer text <p>The Department does not separately record use of exemptions under section 38(a) and 38(b), but does record use of section 38 as a whole. During the past 5 years this exemption was used three times in 2010, three times in 2013 and not used in 2011, 2012 and 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Statistics on the use of Freedom of Information exemptions are published by the Ministry of Justice (Table 10 of annual reports). They are available here:</p><p><a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics</strong></a><em>. </em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chipping Barnet answering member printed Mrs Theresa Villiers grouped question UIN 5291 question first answered 09/07/2015 11:48:40 answering member 1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant