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1715802

registered interest
date	03/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the average time taken by his Department to respond to a freedom of information request was in each of the last five years; how many and what proportion of such requests his Department did not answer within the target time in each of those years; and how many such requests to his Department had not been answered within the target time as of 1 May 2024.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	24837
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2024 answer text <p>The department does not record the time spent in answering individual Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and is therefore unable to calculate an average time for answering such requests in any of the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>Statistical information on the Department’s performance in answering FOI requests over the last five years is published by the Cabinet Office at: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fcollections%2Fgovernment-foi-statistics&amp;data=05%7C02%7CIvan.Pocock%40dft.gov.uk%7Cc16907c3d299442e5ac408dc6ea226bd%7C28b782fb41e148eabfc3ad7558ce7136%7C0%7C0%7C638506889919674319%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=puF9aM2bOWX2HLJ7H2RTpb1dezObskIBsQuEVOQzx10%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-foi-statistics.</a></p><p> </p><p>These statistics, which cover all Government departments, include the number that were not answered within the target time. They are published by calendar year, with the latest year being 2023. The annual statistics for 2024 will be published in April 2025 but quarterly statistics may be available sooner.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Cambridgeshire answering member printed Anthony Browne question first answered 09/05/2024 11:58:39 answering member 4801 label Biography information for Anthony Browne
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1657142

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps their Department is taking to improve the response time to FOI requests.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	196786
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department takes steps to promote good practice and maintain good response times through the provision of expert advice, staff training and regular performance reporting.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/09/2023 11:20:04 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1657163

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the average time taken by his Department to respond to freedom of information requests in the 2022-23 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	196807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department does not hold statistics on the average time taken to respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.</p><p> </p><p>Performance figures for the 2022-23 financial year are published in the Department’s annual report and accounts which show that it responded to 95% of information requests within statutory deadlines.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/09/2023 12:44:01 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1439244

registered interest
date	09/03/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when he plans to respond to the Freedom of Information request relating to the application he has received from TfL to grant permission to build over Cockfosters underground station car park submitted by the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet on 26 January 2022.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	137271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2022 answer text <p>The Department is conducting a public interest test regarding the release of this information and plans to have a final response with the Member as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 14/03/2022 14:34:51 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1343311

registered interest
date	02/07/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2021 to Question 21939, on Department for Transport: Freedom of Information, how many freedom of information requests his Department has referred to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House for advice on handling in the year 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	26115
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department’s records show that between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, of the 2,512 requests we received that were made under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations, 167 were referred to the Cabinet Office for advice on handling.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 08/07/2021 14:48:38 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1339887

registered interest
date	24/06/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many freedom of information requests his Department has referred to the central Cabinet Office Clearing House for advice on handling in each year since 2016.
tabling member constituency	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	21939
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2021 answer text <p>The information requested can only be provided at disproportionate cost, as we do not have a central record of referrals to the clearing house over this period.</p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 29/06/2021 10:16:35 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

1334092

registered interest
date	14/06/2021
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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	Lancaster and Fleetwood
tabling member printed	Cat Smith
uin	15288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/06/2021 answer text <p>My Department does not operate a red, amber and green rating system for categorising Freedom of Information requests according to their presentational sensitivity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 17/06/2021 10:49:17 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
tabling member	4436 label Biography information for Cat Smith

722147

registered interest
date	18/04/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many staff in his Department respond to Freedom of Information requests.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	71051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2017 answer text <p>Freedom of Information requests are responded to by the most appropriate person in the Department, based on the subject matter of the request. This means that any member of staff may be responsible for answering requests, which are allocated to them on a case-by-case basis.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 26/04/2017 10:45:45 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

713023

registered interest
date	21/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions his Department 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	68673
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to my Answer of 24 March to UIN 68270.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 29/03/2017 09:16:55 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

711815

registered interest
date	16/03/2017
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Department for Transport: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what his Department'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	68270
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2017 answer text <p>Freedom of Information 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> </p><p>The latest FOI statistics were published in December 2016 and are available at:</p><p> </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> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 24/03/2017 10:59:42 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne