Question reference: S5W-14204
- Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 30 January 2018
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Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 5 February 2018
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many FOI requests it has (a) received and (b) answered on time in each year since 2007.
Answer
|
Year |
Number of requests received |
Number of requests answered on time |
Performance rate |
|
2007 |
779 |
475 |
61% |
|
2008 |
1260 |
946 |
75% |
|
2009 |
1642 |
1308 |
80% |
|
2010 |
1435 |
1208 |
84% |
|
2011 |
1374 |
1130 |
82% |
|
2012 |
1931 |
1471 |
76% |
|
2013 |
2011 |
1479 |
74% |
|
2014 |
2061 |
1591 |
77% |
|
2015 |
2155 |
1780 |
83% |
|
2016 |
2103 |
1559 |
76% |
|
2017 |
3046 |
2441 |
83% |
This improvement has occurred whilst the volume and complexity of requests has grown. In 2017 we received 3,046 requests, 41% higher than the previous record of 2,155 in 2015 and 45% than the 2016 total.
We answered more requests on time in 2017 that we received in either 2015 or 2016.